While the Twin Cities is known for a vibrant standup comic scene, Minneapolis tends to get the attention. An evening dubbed the St. Paul Comedy All-Stars hopes to change that.

“I was talking to a fellow comic, Jesse the Shrink, and we had an ‘a ha’ moment. Let’s bring all the St. Paul comics together,” said Nate Hood, one of the organizers of the show, which will take place Wednesday night at the Laugh Camp Comedy Club inside Camp Bar in downtown St. Paul.

Jesse the Shrink and Hood are hosting the evening, which features Pig’s Eye comics Elise Cole, Jimmie Davis, Maggie Faris, Ali Hormann, Jesse Jacobs, Malory Manderfield, Tiffany Norton and Jeff Pfoser.

“St. Paul comics are a little different,” Hood said. “We’re very pro-St. Paul, generally a little older and generally a bit more boring. We want to highlight what St. Paul has to offer and have comics do sets about their town in their town.”

To that end, Hood encouraged the performers to go local with their gags.

“Oftentimes, you try to get the audience with material that’s broad as possible. But we’ve told the comics if you have any St. Paul material, do it. You can do these nuanced things. This is a show where people will get the joke.”

The reaction and ticket sales thus far has been tremendously positive, Hood said. The hope is turn it into an annual event.

“People associate St. Paul as the little kid of Minneapolis,” Hood said. “No, we stand out here on our own. Let’s do something that’s more place-based. We want to capture the spirit of St. Paul, which means a lot of different things to different people.”

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