Why Vegas’ comedy scene is ‘the healthiest it’s ever been’

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The show is free and so is the advice.

“I suggest people sit closer,” Dennis Lavender begins, smiling knowingly beneath a white fedora, his grin like lightning foreshadowing a thunderous punchline. “Because if you sit closer to the stage, when a comic’s joke doesn’t work, you get to see the failure in their eyes — it makes it even funnier.”

He chuckles, as if to lead by example.

“Hopefully someone makes you laugh,” Lavender suggests without sounding especially hopeful. “If you crack a smile, you got what you paid for.”

He pauses, waiting for the audience to remember there was no cover charged here at the Luv Lounge, an upscale hookah bar and restaurant.

“Think about that,” he urges, allowing time for the joke to hold, before trying again. “I’ll repeat myself.”

Lavender is an old hand at this by now, hosting weekly open mics in nontraditional comedic settings, which he’s been doing locally for close to a decade.

He knows the challenges — and the possibilities — and he handles them well, opening the night by riffing on the pros and cons of dating a friend’s ex and questioning the merits of certain self-help adages (“‘What don’t kill you makes you stronger?’ Diabetes don’t make me stronger. You can’t be tough with one foot.”)

He’s got one rule: “If you sign up, you go up,” and around a dozen aspiring stand-ups are here to do just that, ranging from traveling pros to a few nervous types getting some of their first stage time.

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