The jokes don’t stop. In an email interview with The Red & Black, Dan Deacon — member of the Wham City Comedy Tour, which as been touring nationally since 2010 — discussed his perspective on the show … and follicular desires.

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The Red & Black: The press release states, “Baltimore’s Wham City collective is heading back out on the road this fall to change the face of comedy.” How is this comedy show unlike any other?

Dan Deacon: I think the way we will change the face of comedy will be like scars or wrinkles or a new small mouth growing in between the old mouth and the nose. The show is a mixture of standup, sketch comedy, videos, and weird theater. It’s a 15 person touring party so the material that we do is really varied. Some of it is traditional, some of it surreal and some of it makes me worried.

R&B: SPIN magazine calls the comedy show “crazy genius” and that the performers are “seriously cynical.” How would you describe the show and yourselves in two words?

DD: Where do you draw inspiration from when coming up with material for the show? From deep within the ether. Most of my performance is stream on conscience, like my drinking out of cups performance.

R&B: What’s your favorite part of the show?

DD: I’m really looking forward to GALLAGHELLIE and MOUSEY EATS THE CHEESE.

R&B: You’ve been putting on live music shows for years. How is a comedy tour different from the shows you’ve done previously?

DD: One is a music show where people dance/thrash around and one is a seated theatrical comedy performance. The differences are pretty vast. If this were a Venn diagram it would be two separate circles. Well, that’s not really true. I mean, they both have the same sort of spirit or ‘vibe’ but the presentation is vastly different. Know what I mean?

R&B: How do you incorporate music in your shows?

DD: We don’t incorporate live music in the comedy tour shows, other than jock jams to transition between acts.

R&B: What’s the one thing you must do before every show?

DD: Before every show all 15 of us write down the thing we hate most about someone else on the tour, but we leave the name blank. We put all those in a hat and then each of us draws one. We then draw a name out of the hat and fill in the blank with that name. It’s a good way for us to get the stress out and to make sure we aren’t keeping anything bottled up, but also so that we don’t get mad at each other or ever have to face our problems in an adult fashion.

R&B: What are your hopes for the comedy tour?

DD: To grow all my hair back.