Atheists and Other Freethinkers

July features the comedy team of Keith Lowell Jensen and John Ross of the CoExist Comedy Tour. Keith will also show a few excerpts of his recent feature film, "Why Lie I Need A Drink," an exploration of homelessness and panhandling from a first-person perspective. Keith’s bio, from the CoExist Comedy Tour web site:

“When not on stage performing comedy, Keith likes to panhandle dressed as a banana (or a mime, mummy, what have you) resulting in the recently released documentary film, "Why Lie, I Need A Drink."

"Oh Holy Day," a book of short stories authored by Keith was released in 2006 just in time for Christmas, because everyone needs presents, even filthy rotten atheists. Two new books are in the works. "The Atheist's Survival Guide," and "Truly, Awful, Stuff" (based on his popular website www.TrulyAwfulStuff.com.)

Keith was born Catholic. At age 12 he was "born again" and became a passionate Southern California style liberal Christian. At age 16 he let go of faith completely and has identified as an agnostic atheist ever since. He is probably the preachiest atheist you'd ever want to meet.”

John’s bio, also from the CoExist Comedy Tour web site:

“Armed with only an Omni-chord and a microphone, Ross takes the tragic trials of his own life and transforms them into a peculiar, yet genuine presentation,

Although being the first methadone-addicted child born in the great state of California, Ross’ successes reach far beyond the drug-addicted womb of his now late mother.

Before entering the realm of stand-up comedy John embarked on three U.S. tours with two separate musical acts, Anguish Unsaid and Like David. Ross played guitar for both bands, selling over 30,000 units through Santa Cruz based Christian indie record label, Bettie Rocket Records.

After only six-months of doing stand-up comedy, Ross was invited to perform at the world famous Improv in Hollywood, with the Heavy Hitters of Comedy and the Rebels of Comedy. He has since performed at clubs all over the West Coast, opening up for acts such as Norm Macdonald, Nick Swardson and Mike Meehan.”