Comedy Overload (That’s No Lie)

Everything is funny to comedian Evan Davis, who will be at the Ice House in Pasadena starting Tuesday.

“Things are inherently hilarious as they are,” he says. “The question you should ask is, What’s unfunny?”

And when asked, he gives some simple answers.

“Price tags makes things unfunny,” said Davis, without an explanation.

He adds: “Denial makes things unfunny, so all I have to do is unravel the denial.”

According to Davis, our world is filled with denial, from auto manufacturers who say they are recalling cars instead of admitting they made a mistake--(“We, uh, forgot to put in the brakes”)--to candidates who say they didn’t inhale.

“We lie to each other. We build cars we don’t need, like Jaguars that go 200 miles per hour,” Davis says.

Davis has been doing stand-up comedy for 13 years. “The mendacity of it all” drove him to it. “I just followed what I had to do.”

He claims he’s 14 years old, “although emotionally I’m more like 6 1/2, 7.”

Describing his act, he says, is hard. And he objects to being categorized.

“I’m a human being who is a victim of data overload. . . . Too much CNN, too many commercials, too many handguns.”

He directs his humor to “whatever the audience is in focus with,” and finds that at the moment politics is popular.

He’s headlining with Lee Allen and magician Great Scott at the club, 24 N. Mentor Ave., through Jan. 9.

Show times are 8:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 8:30 and 10:30 Jan. 8, and 7, 9 and 11 p.m. Jan. 9. Tickets are $7.50 Tuesday through Thursday, $10.50 Friday and Saturday, and there is a two-drink minimum.

By the way, Davis lied. He’s actually 36.