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 It's a Friday night in San Francisco and we're going to watch a dirty comedy show. To be honest, we didn't expect anyone to be there but the place was packed. We had to cram in on the floor, which sucked because we were both pretty sick.  The comedy showcase was put on by Hank Hyena; a great guy, and probably even a greater writer. Many of the performers are alumni of the Hyena Comedy Institute, a kind of yuckster university for those interested in pursuing the art of the guffaw. For many of them, it was their only training in the subject.Hyena, who's been a practicing humorist for "about 25 years," attributes his career, like most comedians, to an inability to hook up with girls as a young man. "I needed attention and it seemed like a fun way to meet arty loose girls and get laid," he said. "My humor was very rebellious because I was from a conservative Catholic family. I like being shocking and shameless —it makes me feel free." For his first comedy project, Hyena used film to convey his humor.  "The first comic project I did was a Super-8 film called Samurai Earwig in 1979," he said. "I dressed up a fat art student in black plastic bags and I had him kill football players with his pinchers and molest cheerleaders with his giant shiny dick."Hmmm… interesting… Hyena often exploits his audience's slight streak of mean-spiritedness during his act, as well as using his God-given gift of self-deprecation. "My most popular material is material in which I either physically degrade and emotionally humiliate myself, or I satirize some popular icon, like a Barbie doll," he said. Hyena's students expressed the utmost respect for their mentor and his brand of teaching, attributing a fair amount of their development to him. For John DeKoven, who's been doing comedy for two years, the decision to become a comedian was brought about by a traumatic event.  "I actually had a heart attack," DeKoven said, "and it was like an awakening. I realized you never know when your time is going to come, so I started getting into it and taking classes."DeKoven, who sprinkles in elements of political and social humor with the more sexual material, says he can't imagine doing his act clean. "I do have to say it is very hard (no pun intended) to do 100 percent clean humor," he said. "That's why I really admire a guy like Bill Cosby. He can go for two hours without a cuss word." Marc Minor, who's been plying his craft for less than a year, attributes his foray into comedy to his own arrogance. "A friend of mine started doing stand up and I went to his shows," he said. "I thought that it was something that I could do too. As usual, I was right." For Eric Peterson, comedy has been a road down which he's been traveling for most of his life. Peterson said he's been doing comedy for "two years officially, 37 unofficially."  "After taking acting and improv classes and enjoying the comedic aspects of those, I wanted to continue to explore comedy so I took a comic monologue class with Hank and then took his intermediate standup class," he said.Peterson said he uses sexually charged material to illustrate a humanistic approach to humor. "Sex is a part of life, and comedy explores life as we think we know it, imagine it or want it to be—so there is a fantasy aspect, a desire to shock," he said. "And it's fun as hell." Roscoe Bing, a comedian for about six months, likes to confront his audiences with dirty humor. "I like to break taboos," he said. "Audiences like to be shocked and have people say things out loud that they could never say in their daily lives. I also believe if you don't offend about 10 percent of your audience, you're not blazing any new trails." Dirty Joke Roundup We asked these comedians to give us their favorite dirty joke, and this is what we got:  Hank: "My dirtiest movie is Genitals of Guatemala. I get a 'jungle rash' in my crotch; my balls swell up grotesquely and explode pus all over my face. Wasps crawl into my cock, lay eggs, and their maggots burrow directly out through my meat. I've only showed it three times because it sickens people."John: "My wife says I don't talk to her enough when we're having sex. It's hard for me because I'm a little bit reserved, but I figured one night I'd try it to make her happy. You know what? She still wasn't happy. Apparently saying, 'Suck my cock, you little whore' isn't good enough!" Marc: "I have a part in my monologue where I talk about bad sexual advice, and one topic is putting your thumb in a girl's ass to 'drive her wild.' During this part I say, 'I'm doing this for her, and in fact, I'm taking all the risk here. What if I get some shit underneath my fingernail? That's going to be there for like a week.' (In context, and with my other jokes to set it up, it's funnier.)" Eric: "I must be the cock in Caucasian —'cos I'm not Asian." Roscoe: "Guy goes to jail. He gets a big, burly, and mean cell mate. The cell mate says, 'If we're going to be cell mates we've got to be married. Do you want to be the husband or the wife?' The guy answers, 'I'll be the husband.' The cell mate says, "In that case, get over here and suck your wife's dick."
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