Beards of Comedy Tour visits Monday

IF YOU GO• What: Beards of Comedy Tour.• When: 9 p.m. Monday.• Where: JJ's Bohemia, 231 E. M.L. King Blvd.• Admission: $5.• Phone: 266-1400.• Website: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/158071.

Last week: Moustache Friday. Next week: The Beards of Comedy Tour.

The two events are unrelated, but who wouldn't connect the stubble.

The hirsute funnymen, coming Monday to JJ's Bohemia, are Andy Sandford (CMT's "Next Big Comic"), Joe Zimmerman (Rooftop Comedy's Golden Shingle Award nominee), TJ Young (Standout Stand-Up winner at 2008's Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival) and Dave Stone (Adult Swim's "Squidbillies").

They're not typical Southern comedians, instead delivering an original brand of humor that's rooted in stand-up but blended with avant-garde elements of music, sketch and improv.

Individually, the Beards have worked with dozens in the business, including Aziz Ansari, Jim Breuer, Greg Giraldo, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and Greg Proops. They recorded their debut album, "Comedy for People," in July 2009.

T. Ballard of the Charleston (S.C.) City Paper praised the foursome's "self-deprecating commentary on popular American culture and the doofus lifestyle."

Dan Pasternack, vice president of the Independent Film Channel, called the Beards "the best thing to happen to facial hair since Osama bin Laden and the best thing to happen to comedy since Osama bin Laden."

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