Ask An Atheist

As we close out 2011, join the gang at Ask an Atheist for a night of live comedy! To help keep our radio show on the air, we’re holding our second semi-annual comedy event, with all proceeds benefiting the poor and needy, namely us!

Comic Lineup includes:

Jeremy Whitman, a national touring comic and a co-creator of the Ask an Atheist radio show!

Kermit Apio, the winner of the 2009 Great American Comedy Festival and has had numerous appearances on television and radio. He has showcased at comedy festivals in Aspen, Las Vegas, and Vancouver and has performed in 47 states and 3 Canadian provinces. He is a past winner of the Seattle Comedy Competition and was a semi-finalist in the San Francisco Comedy Competition. Also, in 1988 he was Dishwasher of the Month at the Sea-Tac Airport Denny’s.

Cathy Sorbo has appeared on shows produced by HBO and Showtime, and developed a pilot with MTV. The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen said of Cathy, “Sorbo rips into her work with such humor and insight that her act appeals to just about everybody.” Cathy’s credits also include national voiceover work for radio and television ads as well as performing at corporate events for clients ranging from Microsoft to the U.S. Army. Cathy has been a regular performer on NPR’s news satire show Rewind and is a sideline announcer for the Rat City Roller Girls roller derby league. She is also a columnist for the Saturday Spin section of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

WHERE:  

Jewelbox Theater
2322 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121

WHEN:

Thursday, December 29th at 8:00pm

Tickets are $20 at the door and are very limited! You can purchase tickets in advance on Brown Paper Tickets!

My impassioned speech in defense of the King of the Seas at the beginning of last week’s show has not gone unheard!

Rob Kelly, the man in charge the excellent Aquaman Shrine fan site and one half of the talent behind the always-entertaining Fire and Water podcast has awarded us a coveted status as official members of F.O.A.M. — Friends Of Aquaman.

It even comes with an official certificate!

As I said on the show, Aquaman is a badass. Ignore the naysayers with their scoffing and their jokes, because this is a guy who doles out justice by throwing polar bears at his foes! He can command the likes of Sharktopus, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Megashark and Giant Octopus, and any of the minions of Cthulhu!

Big thanks to Rob at the Aquaman Shrine for the recognition! You have an excellent site and terrific taste in superheroes!

By now, most of you have seen the video of the son of two women, speaking in Iowa. But did you hear about the guy who spoke after him?

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The Ask an Atheist crew will be doing some volunteer holiday giftwrapping this year, so if you’re in the area we’d love to have you drop by!

Were going to be at the Barnes & Noble in Tukwila, WA, wrapping shoppers’ books for the holidays and accepting donations that help keep our little show on the air! This is your chance to have Christmas presents wrapped for you by folks that Pat Robertson will tell you want to destroy all that is good and holy.

So, stop by the Southcenter Barnes & Noble, buy a few books and gifts and we’ll beautify them with colored paper and tape! Perfect for whatever holiday you celebrate, be it Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Saturnalia or even the Wookiee’s Life Day!

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Hey folks!

I’ve been working on a new podcast delivery system for Ask an Atheist! But this time, rather than trying to push untested code onto the Ask an Atheist servers, I’ve created a very short-term side podcast called “Exasperated!”

I’ve had a couple posts up for a few weeks, but I thought I’d let the kind folks on our website know that we’re spending the next three days posting a conversation Becky, Mike and myself had about some terribly geeky things.

If you’re interested in listening to the producers of this show talk about things other than atheism for a while, head on over to this post and start listening!   It’ll help the show, and it may even be interesting!