Zan Aufderheide

Zan Aufderheide's got problems. People mistake her for a man. Her recent boyfriend was getting around, a lot. On Thursday nights at BC's Recovery Room, she exploits her misery for the merriment of the crowd. As host of the bar's open-mic night, the comedian lubricates the show with her own material. She also uses her connections in comedy to bring in national headliners. You can see video of Aufderheide's act on our website. Here she is on:

Dive-bar comedy:

To me it's like a playground. You're on the jungle gyms, you can do whatever you want. You can fall, get hurt, doesn't matter. There's no pressure of anybody judging you. There's no club owner or booker there going [gangster voice] "Nah, well, see, should we have him for our franchised comedy club." ... And some people call it a gym, where you just go to work out. You work out your new material, and I don't care if people get up there with a notebook or a bunch of pieces of paper.

New material:

Recently I found out that my love-of-my-life boyfriend who said that I was the one and we were going to spend the rest of our lives together -- I recently caught him cheating on me, sending sexual text messages to at least two other women and soliciting sex off the Internet from maybe eight women. Which I thought was shocking, 'cause, I always thought he was gay.