Featured Stories from the Chay Presents Storytellers Show

The Chay Presents Comedy Night series features comedy every Sunday night at the Atlas Improv space at 609 E Washington Avenue. First Sunday is The Method Behind The Madness, second and fourth Sundays are standup, with around eight comics, mostly from Madison but occasionally from Milwaukee.

Every third Sunday is the Storyteller show which showcases mostly local comics but also writers, performers, and significant and up and coming figures withing the community. The following stories were told on August 16, 2012 at their former location the Project Lodge.
 

Friends and Frontage Roads

Emily Mills (@millbot) who is pretty busy around town as a freelance writer, activist, and musician serving in the band Little Red Wolf.With her remaining time she is a photographer and actor, but is mostly known for her reporting at Dane101.com.

Emily is the daughter of a minister and has lived a few places growing up; but she starts her story  in her teenage years, when she was living in Oklahoma. She finds herself at a pasture party involving a bonfire and a boy named Adam, who she liked, and he had a joint. But the trouble didn’t start until the drive home…here is Emily Mills.

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The Best Pee of My Life

Courtesy: Daisy Chains

Model Amanda Lanyon-LeSage, is also known as the very saucy Daisy Chains when she takes the stage with the Peach Pies Caburlesque. In August she found enough time and a few more articles of clothing to tell a yarn about whether foregoing a sweet sixteen party for a trip to Egypt with her mom was the best choice.

The story wasn’t quite Indiana Jones, but the quest to take a boat ride on the Nile River started badly when their taxi driver became an unwanted tour guide. Soon they were careening down dusty back alleys, drinking Egyptian Whiskey, having cheap ancient artifact knock-offs thrust upon them, and an offer of marriage that involved camels.

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American Football Makes Russians Angry

Comic and Green Bay native Adam Waldron (@FindWaldoNow) could have started his story, “Four comics walk into a bar…”

Adam begins with the momentous day when Cable TV came to Wyoming, followed by a critique of the agreeably scary Burger King on East Washington Avenue that involves flames, just not on the broiler. The tale culminates in a sports bar where he determined that comics and a hot-headed Russian with a language barrier is a bad mix, especially when he’s blocking the TV.

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There is No ‘Fair’ Out There

Courtesy: uwex.uwc.edu

Madison comic Matt Lind tells a funny and poignant tale of his youth when he attended a christian school. About halfway through this experience he realized he was an atheist.
Matt then makes the funny quite serious when he explains how that experience helped him deal with diabetes later in life. Matt is also a lawyer, and before you roll out your go-to lawyer jokes, it is possible for lawyers to be funny, here is Matt Lind…

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