Here are some of the best and worst jokes about Denver

This weekend’s Excessive Plains Comedy Pageant will plant dozens of the perfect native and nationwide comics onto Mile Excessive Metropolis phases, from biggies like Ken Jeong and Joel McHale to curated native luminaries and already-sold-out showcases comparable to Dyketopia.

It is going to additionally, by nature, invite jokes about our honest metropolis. That’s nothing new, mentioned pageant founder Adam Cayton-Holland, a proud Denverite who set his truTV sitcom “These Who Can’t” right here, together with co-creators Ben Roy and Andrew Orvedahl (additionally performing on the pageant).

However even when Cayton-Holland was a beginner comedian, he tried to subvert the tropes.

“I used to have an opener concerning the Denver climate, the way it was so inconsistent, and it may change so all of a sudden,” he mentioned. “Then I’d say, “Effectively, you recognize what they are saying about Denver climate: if you happen to don’t just like the climate in Denver, why don’t you return the place you got here from you Texas, transplant asshole.’ Hacky as may very well be, nevertheless it crushed each time.”

Pandering to locals with snowboarding, Broncos and legal-weed jokes is outdated hat, however a dozen-plus touring comics have lately chosen to document albums and specials right here, in some methods documenting our humorousness as a lot as theirs (see River Butcher, Nikki Glaser, Amy Schumer, Tom Seguro, and many others.).

So what are comics saying about us? Earlier than the Thursday, Sept. 8-Saturday, Sept. 10, Excessive Plains Comedy Fest, we tracked down a number of of the perfect and arguably worst jokes about Denver — and Colorado basically. We gained’t attempt to inform you which is which, and a few them could stretch the definition of a joke, however hey: they made us giggle. (Observe: longer bits, of which there are numerous, had been excluded in favor of quick quotes.)

“I didn’t know what a 14’er was till I moved right here and located it that it’s one thing a person climbs over as an alternative of going to remedy.” — Andie Primary

“(It’s) fairly enjoyable to be in Denver over Halloween. Everyone’s Halloween costume simply seems to be like CBD-infused.” — River Butcher

“Thanks, it’s nice to be right here in downtown Southeast Boulder!” — David Rodriguez (performing in Denver)

“Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don’t know why.” — Mike D (Beastie Boys)

“40% of the tickets for Invoice Cosby’s Denver exhibits had been returned for refunds. See, consuming pot doesn’t make you silly.” — Warren Holstein

“Colorado, a.ok.a. Potsylvania.” — Stephen Colbert

“… the divided world of Aspen, the place locals with a way of entitlement had been pitted towards builders with a way of condominiums.” — Steve Martin

“Annually, tens of millions of skiers come to Colorado to expertise its excellent emergency medical services.” — Dave Barry

“Does the track ‘Rocky Mountain Excessive’ make John Denver our technology’s Nostradamus?” — Adam Wolf

“You don’t want missionaries in Colorado; you bought Colorado.” — Trey Parker

In the event you go

The ninth Excessive Plains Comedy Pageant. Stand-up fest with Ken Jeong, Joel McHale, Kyle Kinane, Steph Tolev, Nick Thune, Josh Blue, Nancy Norton, Shane Torres, Pink Foxx, Amy Miller, David Gborie, Christie Buchele and extra. Thursday, Sept. 8-Saturday, Sept. 10 on the Hello-Dive, HQ, Skylark, Chaos Bloom, Mutiny and Bellco Theatre. Most tickets are $10-$20 per present, with $125 pageant passes. highplainscomedyfestival.com

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