Tom Papa

"Hard alcohol is the only thing that you put into your body that actually comes with a story," Tom Papa says. "It's like, 'You want some tequila?' 'No, dude the last time I had that... ' Doesn't happen with anything else. 'You want some jelly beans?' 'No, last time I had jelly beans I ended up with my pants around my ankles facedown in the mall.'" Papa himself doesn't lead such a hard-partying life. "A lot of my act is about my life and being married and having a couple of kids and how awful that can be," he explains. "But to a lot of people being married with a couple of kids is a great thing," he laughs. Audiences seem to identify with him, though. "People come up to me a lot, aggressively, and say, 'It's good that you say you don't like this whole thing. Whenever I say it to my friends they think I'm an evil person, but being a parent does suck sometimes, doesn't it?' They get a little too excited about that sometimes."
Sept. 27-29, 8 p.m.; Sept. 28-29, 10:30 p.m., 2007