Back by demand, this two-woman comedy act revisits Ciné portraying their seemingly infinite cast of characters of “It Was Open Mic Nite at Ye Old Rustic Inn.”

With seven different acts, Stephanie Astalos-Jones and Lisa Mende offer up the comedic duos of the Schmeckle sisters, the Red Hat Ladies, Milk ‘n’ Honey, Carolee and Carlene, a couple of bad mimes, two Christian college girls and a pair of old hippie chicks.

When asked about the history behind these sets of characters, both Mende and Jones snickered.

“Right now I’d have to say the crowd’s favorite are the Schmeckle Sisters because they’re a couple of old Borscht-belt broads, but my favorite has to be the Red Hat Ladies,” Mende said. “I don’t want to give too much away, but we do magic tricks.”

Jones briefly described the really bad mimes as “lesbian mimes who, in their private life, are very feminist actors but really bad mimes. They’re so bad they basically decide to have a voice over tape while they mime.”

But right-wing Christian college girls are a delightfully refreshing act when they decide that they can somehow “save the world through laughter, telling very hateful, anti-liberal jokes,” Jones said.

For example, Jones gave a sneak peak when she tells how one of the jokes quips ‘How many liberals does it take to screw in a light bulb? It doesn’t matter, they like sitting in the dark.’

However, the two lead rather different lives outside ‘Ye Old Rustic Inn.’ Mende has appearaned in Seinfeld, Sex and the City and Friends, and Jones just finished up her role in a 2009 Sundance film called “White Lightnin’”.

Both women clearly share a unique chemistry, and it shows in their acts but also through their creative process.

“When we met we started talking about comedy and realized it should be character-driven and real,” Jones said. “And I had some characters and she had an idea for a show that would mock different styles of comedy.”

The process begins with the two just talking and improvising in front of the tape recorder. “The characters would pretty much make their personalities known and we would just write through their voices,” Mende said. And it works.

Between each set of characters, the women virtually disappear. As evidence, Mende describes the best comment she has ever received.

“It was from a lady about a week ago,” Mende said. “She said ‘My God I didn’t realize it was the same two people until the third or fourth character came out!’”

The duo’s differences in personality only help their creative process.

Jones differentiates the two. “She’s a social butterfly, whereas I’m more of a hermit. But not a hermit out of spite, I just have many things I’d rather be working on. Visually, if you see us, I’m going to show up in comfortable jeans and a T-shirt, and she’s going to have mid-calf pants that maybe have polka dots, stripes, a frilly top and maybe some cowboy boots.”

However different, the two met and melded. It all began with a back story that dates back five years ago when Mende and Jones met, and the two would have never been destined to meet had it not all began with the intention of only a one-woman show.

“I moved from Hollywood, Ca., to Watkinsville, Ga. – Yes, big culture shock,” Mende said. :I had just come from doing the Aspen Comedy Festival for HBO when I said to them ‘Well, what’s my next move?’ And they said to write a one-woman comedy show.”

But when Mende was thrown Jones’ name to create two one-woman comedy acts, the two got together and threw that idea out the window.

“When we started writing together, we just had such great chemistry, as both actors and writers, and perceived comedy the same way” Mende said.

“We had a really good time, and we crack each other up with all of our duos,” said Jones.

And thus, “It Was Open Mic Nite at Ye Olde Rustic Inn” was born.