{"id":66263,"date":"2020-02-03T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/comic-uprising-returns-to-dolores\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:36:56","slug":"comic-uprising-returns-to-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/comic-uprising-returns-to-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Uprising returns to Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ef06ab74-448d-4d43-85fa-a19ff138e073&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1150\" height=\"1088\" alt=\"Local comedian Derek Ryter will do stand up at the Dolores River Brewery Feb. 7 along with other comedians. Here he performs \u201cDonald Feels the Bern\u201d during the 2017 Snowdown Follies in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Local comedian Derek Ryter will do stand up at the Dolores River Brewery Feb. 7 along with other comedians. Here he performs \u201cDonald Feels the Bern\u201d during the 2017 Snowdown Follies in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Comedy Nights returns to the Dolores River Brewery Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Four professional stand-up comedians will perform at 9 p.m., and there will be open mic for new or amateur comedians at 7:30 p.m.  There is a $5 cover.<\/p>\n<p>Headliners are Kate McLachlan, Jill Carlson, Betsy Schur, and Derek Ryter. Brian Nystrom will host the first set, and David Oakley the second.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organized by Comic Uprising, a new club formed by Carlson to showcase local comedians. Sponsors include Matthew Walk-In Haircuts and Kokopelli Cabins.<\/p>\n<p>McLachlan was the recent winner of the First Next Best Comic of the Four Corners.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, a local attorney and former Cortez City councilwoman, has been participating in stand-up comedy for many years. In 2017, she started the annual Four Corners Comedy Festival, and organized Comic Uprising to promote regular stand-up events in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third Comedy Nights at the Dolores River Brewery and the event has packed the house, said Aaron Lemay, who gave stand-up a try during the open mic session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was fun, and I was not too embarrassed. Some people laughed, so I\u2019m going to try it again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Comic Uprising events are:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Feb. 9, \u201cComedy Confessional\u201d open mic at Balcony Bar &amp; Grill, Durango, 8 p.m.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Feb. 14 \u201cOff With Their Heads\u201d at Down the Rabbit Hole, Durango, 8 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Feb. 9, \u201cComedy Confessional\u201d open mic at Balcony Bar &amp; Grill, Durango, 8 p.m.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Feb. 14 \u201cOff With Their Heads\u201d at Down the Rabbit Hole, Durango, 8 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>features four comedians, plus open mic session<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2004,44,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-comedy","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90420,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263\/revisions\/90420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66263"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}