Often political and always hilarious, Non-Profit Comedy has been been featured
in the Seattle P-I and has raised over $75,000 for worthy non-profits.
Current one-night record: $8,000 for Puget Sound Community School!!!

Next show! Tue Sept 7 8:30pm: Passages Northwest

Show details: Showtime 8:30-10:00pm at the Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St. in Occidental Park. Cover is $12 ($6 w/ student ID), at least half gets donated, buy tickets at the door. There is no drink minimum but food and beverages are available. The Comedy Underground is open to all ages except Fri/Sat, but it is always a free speech zone, so think twice if you're easily offended or bringing impressionable youths. The club is down a flight of stairs but elevator access is available if arranged in advance. Free street parking is often available nearby, as are pay parking lots and most downtown buses. * Potentially tight parking---Mariners game

Behind-the-scenes details for non-profit partners and for comics

Scroll down for Is Non-PC right for me?, for Non-PC in the news, to sign up for email updates, and to read about shows in previous years.

Shows in 2006 (Total amount raised: $14,387!!)

In reverse chronological order: Tuesday December 19 featured guest producer Kelli Robson, a surprise appearance from Last Comic Standing runner-up Ty Barnett (!), and a packed house that brought in $966 for Safe Schools Coalition! Tuesday December 12 NARAL Pro-Choice Washington had their second show of the year, and it was worth it: they brought 109 people to the club, Hari Kondabolu headlined, and we raised a new record high: $1,211!! Tuesday December 5 Heneghen headlined and Cascade Land Conservancy raised $220. Tuesday November 28 Emmett Montgomery guest produced the show for Bad Fruit Foundation and raised $170. Tuesday November 21 we braved the rain and raised $190 for Stone Soup---buy holiday gifts from their non-profit rural marketplace shopthefrontier.org. Tuesday October 31 we raised $104 for Yes on I-937 (Clean Energy Initiative). Tuesday October 24 Kelli Robson guest produced (and Peggy Platt headlined!) a show for Lambert House, raising $353. Tuesday October 17 Vince Valenzuela headlined and we went head-to-head with the Rolling Stones, who were playing next door; we still raised $279 for Center for Social Justice! Tuesday October 10 UW CHID raised $157. Tuesday October 3 Youth Tutoring Program brought a crowd of 130 people and raised $1,145! (This is our new record high!) Tuesday September 26 Heneghen headlined a great show that raised $705 for University District Service Providers Alliance. Tuesday September 19 we raised $140 for Home Alive. Tuesday September 12 Hari Kondabolu guest produced and headlined the show for Hate Free Zone, which raised $713. Tuesday September 5 we raised $266 for Voters for Affordable Housing. Tuesday August 29 Heneghen, Brad Upton, and Vince Valenzuela starred in the show for Veterans of Modern Warfare, which raised $110. Tuesday August 22 Andy Peters guest produced (and David Crowe headlined) the show for Planned Parenthood, bringing in 126 people and $1,057. Tuesday August 15 Brad Upton headlined and we raised $276 for Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. Tuesday August 8 Heneghen headlined and we raised $105 for Futurewise (formerly 1000 Friends of Washington). Tuesday August 1 Peggy Platt headlined (!), Harrold Gomez did a guest set (two winners of the Seattle Comedy Competition in one night!), and Aradia Women's Health Center brought 100 people to the club and raised $951. Tuesday July 25 we raised $614 for Jobs with Justice. Tuesday July 18 we raised $130 for Conversation Cafe/New Roadmap Foundation and had a fabulous time, with guest sets from Seattle Comedy Competition winner Ron Osborne and Heneghen. Tuesday July 11 we raised $53 for Corporate Accountability International. Tuesday June 13 Travis Simmons guest produced the show for Downtown Emergency Service Center and raised $805. Tuesday June 6 NARAL Pro-Choice Washington brought 120 people to the club and raised $1,069; Meghan Hounshell headlined! Tuesday May 30 BABES Network-YWCA raised $56. Tuesday May 23's show for El Centro de la Raza featured Latino comics Rodger Lizaola, Jay Sierra, and Vince Valenzuela and raised $122. Tuesday May 16 UW Young Democrats raised $150. Tuesday May 9 Poverty Action raised $208. Tuesday April 25 Kelli Robson guest-produced a show for the Pride Foundation and raised $500. Tuesday April 11 (the official inaugural Non-Profit Comedy show!) we had an audience of 100+ and raised $812 for Real Change, including a generous donation from comic Craig Gass, a Seattle native who's made it big with Howard Stern in New York and plunked down some serious cash for extra stage time (and brought down the house with a set about King-5's Jim Foreman being the sacrificial lamb of TV news). Tuesday March 14 (the unofficial inaugural Non-Profit Comedy show!) we packed the club with 158 people and raised $750 for Northwest Environment Watch (now called Sightline Institute) during the second-to-last High Contrast Comedy show in Seattle. Total amount raised in 2006: $14,387. Number of shows: 31. Average raised per show: $464.

Non-Profit Comedy in the news!

11/21/07: Seattle Weekly includes Non-Profit Comedy in their calendar of recommended events: "...[T]here are better jokes to be heard at the Comedy Underground's weekly Non-Profit Comedy night--so do something good with your 12 bucks and your affluent guilt over the Thanksgiving feast."

10/9/07: Jew-ish.com did a nice story to promote our show that night for the Jewish Federation Young Leadership Division.

3/21/07: The Seattle Weekly recommended the Non-Profit Comedy show for Sightline Institute, part of the first-ever environmental comedy festival.

3/4/07: "The Forecast for the Forecasters Is Dismal", Daniel Gross's Economic View column in the New York Times, included a quote from stand-up economist Yoram Bauman.

1/29/07: "Do-gooders and good humor mix well on Non-Profit Nights, and that's no joke", Athima Chansanchai's Seattle P-I feature story on Non-Profit Comedy, took up the entire front page of the Arts section of the P-I. The article also has profiles of regular Non-PC performers Meghan Hounshell, Hari Kondabolu, Rosalie Gale, Douglas Gale (aka "Rosalie's other half"), and Yoram Bauman.

11/22/06: "Laugh Riot", Brian Miller's Seattle Weekly cover story on the 2006 comedy competition, features Non-Profit Comedy regular Douglas Gale. See also the funny LTEs from Non-Profit Comedy regulars Yoram Bauman and Heneghen, featuring this quote: "After two years on the Seattle comedy scene, I was convinced that no other profession could match our collective fixation with blow jobs, hoary stereotypes, and cynicism. But silly me---I forgot journalism!"