Poor? Like to laugh? Be sure to check out the show at the Lincoln Lodge tonight and/or tomorrow, where your $8 admission will not only get you a night of hilarity in one of the top alt stand-up rooms, but it will also get you generous samplings of a great restaurant in the city, as tonight and tomorrow the segment, “Off the Eatin’ Path with Monte” will be featured. Not only is this multimedia presentation hysterical, complete with audience participation, but after the presentation the entire audience gets to sample the delicious wares of the featured restaurant. If you haven’t been “Off the Path” with Monte yet, this week is your chance. Also featured will be Jeb Cadwell's 400th stand-up performance in ten months. Yikes!

This weekend, local comedians, including Paul Sigwerth, Adam Burke, Chad Briggs, Frankie Benevedes, Lee Kapranas, Mike Cody, Tony Blanco, Bradley Fojas, Rudy Ascot, Dan Sullivan, Emerson Dameron, and Eric Strom, will be on hand at the Around the Coyote arts festival during the festival’s first Critic’s Cinema, “an interdisciplinary show of literary performance, and video, with some of Chicago’s leading satirical personalities from stand up comedy, spoken word, hip hop, and established authors doing live critiques of winning films from the Chicago Short Comedy Festival at Dulcenea on Saturday night.” Each performer is paired up on stage with a film and will give their subjective, uncensored opinion immediately following the screening of each movie. The movies include “Must Like Magic”, by David Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, and Steve Stein, “Time Traveler”, by Consortium Productions, “Divorce Lemonade”, by Justin Hayward, “Contract Killers”, by Craig James Pietrowiak and Louis Coty, “Auteur”, by, Bill Palmer, and “There Aren’t Enough Lights in the World”, by Justin Hayward.

Bastion contributor Mackenzie Condon’s show, “Drag Kings,” is closing this Saturday, midnight in Donny’s Skybox. As she said, “Come see us perform in the creepiest level D class ever.” How could we resist!?

Ticketmaster is offering an Internet presale for David Sedaris at the Chicago Theatre on April 8. Visit Ticketmaster with the password FRANCE.

- Kristy Mangel