Entries in New Mexico Comedy (4)
Stand Up Is More Artsy In Black And White

I performed at The Guild last week, and my buddy Bruce Ying Wong filmed my set. I thought the video was alright, but there was something off, something I couldn't quite put my finger on. I sent the video to the trash bin on my computer and hoped that the next one would turn out better. Then it came to me in a dream. Our subconscious is a strange thing, and dreams speak to us in metaphors, similes, and onomonopias, so I wasn't completely sure what it meant when I was skinny dipping in the Rio Grande and a silvery minnow, my spirit animal, said to me, he says "Rusty BE Michael Jackson. You ARE Michael Jackson." I try to trust and follow my dreams, so I knew it was no coincidence the next morning when I was on my way to get some plastic surgery when MJ came on my Michael Jackson Pandora station singing "It doesn't matter if you're black our white." I thought to myself out loud, "You're right Michael, it really doesn't matter if you're black or white, or in your case, black and white...black AND white. Wait a minute, my dream wasn't telling me to get a nose job, it was telling me I need to be black and white. My video needs to be BLACK AND WHITE! I called and canceled my appointment with the plastic surgeon, as well as the dentist appointment I had scheduled for next week to get my wisdom teeth pulled, and I turned my car around. I got pulled over for making an illegal u-turn while talking on the phone, but the cop let me go with a warning because I am white. I sped home to edit my video, got pulled over again for speeding, and got off with another warning because I am white. I opened up my trash bin, pulled out the mouse that I threw away last night out of frustration, took him outside to the dumpster because he was really starting to smell, then I went back inside to my computer, opened my computer trash bin and took out the video I had sent there last night. I did a little editing to make it black and white, and re-watched it. "This video is hilarious!" I screamed out loud. "I'm going to put this on YouTube" I whispered. So here it is, in it's entirety. I hope you are as touched by this video as I was...
...okay, actually I made it black and white because the lighting was weird at the venue and I thought this looked better.
3rd Thursday's Comedy Contest - New Year, New Jokes

We survived the The Mayan end of days, we survived Y2K, we survived Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, now can we survive another year of 3rd Thursday's Comedy Contests???? I say YES!
Come on out to Albuquerque's hottest COMEDY CONTEST this Thursday at Terrene Hookah Lounge and help decide who will be the first winner of 2013! This month's line-up includes Mike Long, Matt Peterson, Luke Erikson, Kevin Kennedy, James Morrow, Danny Torrez, Sarah Mowrey, Sarah Kennedy, Cyrus Moses, and Danger Varoz. The madness will be held together by the glue that is Rusty Rutherford.
This is sure to be one for the ages, so grab 6 dollars worth of dollars, a little change for tax, and an id that looks real and says you're at least 18-years-old and get on over to Terrene!
Stand up Comedy at The Guild

Stand Up Comedy at the Guild is Back!! This time around we have another GREAT line up you don't want to miss! Some of the funniest comedians ABQ has to offer!
MC-Roger "ROJO" Peterson
Featuring-
James Marrow
Joe Quesada
Rusty Rutherford
Matt Peterson
February 11th
10:30 pm (late night fun)
5 comedians for only-$10
18+
Be There!!