Anyone who’s seen Clint Berquist’s Seattle Komedy Dokumentary could be forgiven for thinking that: (a) Seattle’s comedy scene peaked five years ago, and (b) that peak really wasn’t all that high. Yet if the subject of that documentary, the local comedy troupe People’s Republic of Komedy, ever bought into such pessimism, they’ve either: (a) gotten over it very quickly, or (b) have a funny way of showing it. Witness this week’s extraordinary Laff Hole headliner: Andy Kindler, a Letterman fave who rates a mere notch below the Galifianakises and Oswalts in the hipster comedy realm. Lightning quick and mercilessly sarcastic, Kindler is the anti-Tom Papa (of Marriage Ref infamy). Whereas Papa gratingly milks the utters of marriage and parenthood to the point where you want to get a divorce and orphan your children, Kindler is on to his next topical target so quickly that the bulls-eye blurs. Catching him at a venue as intimate as Chop Suey is akin to seeing Prince play an unannounced gig at Habana SoDo. (21 and over.) MIKE SEELY

Wed., July 6, 9 p.m., 2011