From this week's print edition:

SO-CALLED "POLITICAL" COMEDIANS are just like any others. Some, like Bill Maher and Mark Russell, are dogmatic or laughably awful. Others, like Jon Stewart and The Daily Show apparatus, are simply tremendous. The jokes—not the politics—must win the day.

"Good comedy is honest and it's blunt and it speaks to people in a way they feel there's some truth in it," says Hari Kondabolu, one-third of the nationally touring comedy show Laughter Against the Machine. "Political comedy," according to Kondabolu, might not be the best label for himself and tourmates Nato Green and W. Kamau Bell. "Why should that be separate from comedy in general?"

Read the rest of the story on Laughter Against the Machine, tonight at the Curious Comedy Theater.

The show starts at 8:00PM. Tickets are $10. Videos of all three comics, Hari Kondabolu, Nato Green and W. Kamau Bell after the jump.

Hari Kondabolu:

Nato Green:

W. Kamau Bell: