ON THE SCENE: Free Hitler Jokes!

There's nothing quite like no cover and a free drink ticket to raise your spirits and ready you for laughs. I sat with a group of local open-mic headliners who were in attendance, and the show began with The Hazzards—two women who asked us to ignore how hot they were for a moment, so they could pretend to be guys and sing a song about having boners. The hilarity steadily escalated as the evening wore on, with comedian Dan Levy illustrating how he takes retro fads to a whole new level, by embracing truly "old school" ideas like slavery and the world being flat. Jokester Rocky Laporte went on to explain that fewer bad things would happen in the world if people like Hitler had been given nonthreatening names, like Chip.

"Hey, that guy Hitler wants to be our leader. Whaddya think?"

"Who? CHIP? The little guy with the mustache?"

It was a riotous evening, but if you missed it, you can still catch the jokes in April on Starz Comedy. Sorry, no drink ticket.