Edge Comedy, headed by producer and comic Dave Odd, is opening a full time stand-up club at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts (777 N. Green Street.) This Saturday night at 9:30 PM, doors will open at the Edge Comedy Club for a big show featuring headliner Mark "The Knife" Faje (America's Got Talent), along with host Dave Odd, and performers Mike Cody, Adam Burke, Kumail, John Markham, and Matt Wayne. A Chicago funk outfit called Big Kitchen will provide the groove.

Odd is excited about the new series of shows. "I just booked Greg Fitzsimmons for the opening weekend late show. He's was a writer on Lucky Louie, been on Letterman, The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, and is all over Best Week Ever."

The club in the Sevens Cabaret will officially start Sept. 5. Wednesdays will be an open mic at 8:30. Thursdays will be a $500 comedy competition at 8:30. Fridays and Saturdays will be a host, feature, headliner format showcase at 8:15 and 10:30. All shows are ages 16 and up, and Odd says that as a general rule 8:15 shows will be PG13 and 10:30 shows will be unrestricted. There is, however, a full bar, so you can get your drink on while explaining the dirty jokes to your nephew.

Where else are you going to go this Saturday night where the headlining act's signature works include "balancing a running lawnmower on his face, kicking a flaming bowling ball inserted with knives into the side of his head, juggling a buzz-saw and a flaming chainsaw, and performing card tricks with a live scorpion?" Besides St. Gertrude's Bingo Night?

- Elizabeth McQuern