Brian Posehn puts it all on the table.

Comedian Brian Posehn resists the phrase "politically correct," and longs to put new twists on dirty humor. Courtesy Brian Posehn

His humor is self-described as “silly, dry, dirty, real and too truthful maybe,” and he’s the kind of guy that finds nuggets of humor in his daily life – even if it embarrasses his wife.

“Like on my first record, my dog licking my wife’s private parts while she was sitting on the toilet,” he said. “On my last record, one of my favorite jokes was about when my wife farted in the car as we were pulling up to a valet and she said to me that the valet would think it was me.”

Posehn often has a child-like way of reverting to dirty humor.

“I also love dick jokes, I love juvenile stuff, but I love to do my version that hopefully you haven’t heard,” he said. “I don’t want to tell dick jokes you’ve heard a dozen times.”

Wherever his routine begins, it usually ends up back in the gutter.

“A lot of my humor may even start out in a real place, but ends up in a dirty place,” he said. “I’d like to think it’s an original dirty place.”

As a veteran stand-up comedian, Posehn has learned to base his humor off of his experience, instead of observational humor.

“When I first started, I wrote jokes about anything,” he said. “For the last 10 to 15 years, I’ve definitely gone out of my way to be more personal and more real and talk about whatever I’m going through.”

He’s also come to realize that jokes don’t fall into his lap.

“You have to wait for things to happen … you can’t really force things,” Posehn said. “I’ll say to my wife often, ‘Hey, I need new material. Say something weird or stupid so I can get five minutes out of it.’”

In his life on or off the stage, crossing the line is a reoccurring theme; and as a writer and comedian, he said, “I’ve always been the guy that maybe pushes it or says inappropriate things just to make sure people are listening almost.”

Posehn sways from holding back with his jokes, and he said the phrase “politically correct” isn’t part of his vocabulary.

“I used to open saying that black people talk during movies, and I don’t think they ruin movies when they talk, so I take that racial stereotype and go a different way with it,” he said. “I go on to say that the real people that ruin movies are Jewish ladies and Mexican babies … I’m throwing in new racial stereotypes, but being completely absurd with it.”

Even though his wife doesn’t come to many of his shows anymore, because she ends up blushing, Posehn doesn’t hold back from disclosing bedroom antics or embarrassing moments.

“I don’t like shock humor for shock humor sake, but I like the reaction it gets when you reveal a little bit too much information about myself,” he said. “I hate the phrase ‘too much information.’ I want to punch people in the face when I hear them say that.”

BRIAN POSEHN

Where: New Earth

When: 8 p.m.

Price: $20