BrightestYoungThings: Avoid The Green Ones: Your Weekly Comedy News

Problem: you love comedy, but it's hard to keep track of what's going on every week.

Solution: We are going to take our Bentzen Ball expertise and use it to round up all of the interesting comedy shows and national comedy news each week into a neat little package. Like a Bento Box. Or a pipe bomb. Named in honor of the movie that inspired Ollie Bentzen to laugh himself to death so many years ago:

Comedy genius, Kevin Kline, is.

First and first mostly, your week in Comedy Shows:

Tuesday:

The late-era Elvis King of downtown open mics is tonight, Sollys on U. St. Something magic almost always happens, either purposeful or not.

Wednesday:

Mick Foley the Wrestler is at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. Nobody can tell you if this is going to be funny, but everyone knows it will be amazing.
And at DC's dankest mid-town hole-in-the wall Recessions there's a new comedy series that's kind of an Open Mic, Comedyx10. 10 pre-picked local comics strip naked and do battle in a steel-woven cage with bazookas! Or they just all tell jokes in order. Either way it's funtimes.

Thursday:

The Bentzen Ball presents The Family Hemerlein at the Arts Club of Washington. Stand-up by Seaton Smith and Bentzen Ball star Ben Kronberg. You've probably heard about this somewhere. Perhaps you already have tickets?

Friday:

The best rock club comedy night in the city (and possibly the world), 3chord Comedy at the Velvet Lounge continues it's domination of the genre with Dave Hill (HBO, Adult Swim), Justin Schlegel (98 Rock), Jeff Maurer (Winner- Funniest Fed, Bentzen Ball) and organizer, MC, and general bon vivant Eli Sairs.

At the Arlington Drafthouse later that night tongue-twisting clever dick Hampton Yount is putting on a Special Evening of Laughter with fellow DC All-star Will Hessler opening. Holler at yr boy on facebook!

And George Lopez is at the Warner Theater. Because who doesn't want this in their eyeballs for two hours:

Saturday:

Rob Cantrell is at the Drafthouse. Expect pot jokes that are actually hilarious and DC-based stories of his cerebral slacker youth.

Mike Epps is at DAR, if you like your comedy with more crazy eyes. Well actually Rob has about equal crazy eyes. Let's say more crack jokes, does that work?

Sunday:

Stay home and watch How to Make It In America on HBO, because fashion is a way more amusing industry than movie-making.

In other news, Leno returns to the Tonight Show:

Autotune Returns to the News:

And theEd Hardy Boys return to Funny or Die:

The Ed Hardy Boyz 2: The Case of When That Hot Filipina Girl Lost Her Tramp Stamp At Mini-Golf from Jon Daly

Should Betty White Host SNL? Answer: 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH'

More episodic web hilarity: 00Bama (not pronounced 'double-oh-bamma' unfortunately.) Let's hope Cheri Oteri does as well with her own AMC-backed Web endeavor: Life Coach, or our best friend Sarah Silverman's gig on a Kid's Show. Coming Soon!

Isn't it kind of weird that a show whose premise is ripping off free content from Youtube can't be viewed online anywhere in full? I mean, Tosh2.0 is very funny, don't get me wrong. It's just kinda Ebaumish.

Still, you can watch clips from the show on Comedy Central.

Do you watch the Mighty Boosh? The moon is the best part isn't it? Well now you can put the moon, IN, YOUR, PHONE! Have a chat with Noel and Julian about it this Thursday.

BEST TWITTER OF THE WEEK:

Joshua Allen (fireland)

Why is my mother on Match.com. Why do her interests include "buffets and leather." Why was she recommended to me. Why am I emailing her.9:51 AM Feb 11th via web

And finally, and most importantly:

What is going on with Weird Al These Days?

He's singing with the Pixies of course.