Standup India

Standup India

Saturday night Sivananda Ashram has a talent show. I haven’t done standup since I’ve been in India, and I was itching to get on stage. Oh, the “stage” is also the altar to Sivananda, Vishnudevananda and several gods. It’s not your typical smoky comedy club; it’s a sort of temple with 200 yoga-teachers in training, a few swamis and sadhus, and yogis, and yours truly. And I have to say that I totally rocked the temple with a set about Indian toilets and lusty yogis that ended with a hilarious and totally inappropriate bit about “being in the present.” People were coming up to me for days afterward saying they were literally in tears from laughing so hard. It doesn’t get better than that. (I actually captured the set on my camera and will send a link when it’s up.)

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Alicia Dattner is a comedian and speaker who jousts with such topics of love, time-management, money, environmentalism, politics, spirituality, and creativity. Her first solo show, The Punchline, recently won Best of the Fringe in the San Francisco Fringe Festival 2008. Her second show, Eat Pray Laugh won Best Storyteller at the NY United Solo Festival. Her company, Making Light, is dedicated to bringing humor and lightness into spirituality, relationship, and every day life.

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