Weekend Agenda, Feb. 5-7: Kevin Nealon doesn’t smoke weed—who knew?

There’s been a lot of weed talk in the last year, ever since Colorado laws made it easier to legally distribute and dispensaries started popping up like 7-Elevens on every corner. But, really, all the cover stories, all the jokes, all the stereotyping—none of it actually seems that weird. We grow the stuff of local legend apparently (ask any transplanted college student), and far and wide, even before it was legal, we’ve always been known as a weed state. Which should mean a packed house for Kevin Nealon.

The comic—who appears this Friday and Saturday at Comedy Works downtown—is probably better recognized from his long stint on Saturday Night Live through the mid-’90s. But, in the past decade, he’s become even more notorious for his recurring role on Showtime’s Weeds. He’s a natural at playing a morally stunted, middle-aged stoner, and without him, the show would be, well, not nearly as funny or worth the premium-cable price. His stand-up, though, is fairly drug-free—don’t expect the guy playing Doug Wilson to be Doug Benson—instead focusing more on domestic matters, like birthing babies, receding hairlines, and, surprisingly, how he doesn’t smoke weed. So don’t try to offer him any after the show.

But if smoking out comedians is your thing—which, if it is, seems kind of fanatical and creepy—then Chuck Roy should (probably) be your next hit. The Denver-based comedian—who will be at Comedy Works downtown as well on Saturday for an early show with Ben Roy—is definitely pro-weed: Chuck created The Crop Report, an online business-news parody on the marijuana market, and the long-standing joke on his website is how he lives on a “one-bedroom farm.” Chuck is also green in that other way, hosting The Renewable Energy Comedy Show. The pilot web episode, part sketch/part stand-up, like a much cleaner version of The Aristocrats, repeats the joke “Two solar panels walk into a bar and…” over and over again. (Trust us on this one—it’s much funnier than it sounds.)

We love web videos, and at denver.avclub.com, we embed the shit out of them. Check out our extended interview with Dessa—who opens for P.O.S. and Grieves tonight at the Marquis Theater—as well as her newest music video for “Dixon’s Girl.” Also this week: We looked back, like way back, in local music history for an Area Bands Past with Jake Jabs. Yes, that Jake Jabs, who, while hanging with tigers and building his furniture empire, also recorded a country album. No joke.