The Elysian is just rounding the corner on being officially one year old and they’re marking the occasion by putting on their very first comedy festival, Forget About Spaghetti Festival. In that time, The Elysian has become a beacon for all things wonderfully weird in comedy per the direction of theater’s Executive Artistic Director Kate Banford.

So, from Oct. 20th-30th, there are 17 completely original, untraditional, atypical comedy shows that range from pondering the upside of being a coma, getting into bone fashion, examining nature of existence and the corporeal form via ducks, attending a multi cam sitcom set at Thomas Jefferson’s house, and watching rats auditioning to open for Ricky Gervais just to give an overview. The likes of some of LA comedy’s most innovative voices inlcuding Cricket Arrison, Magi Calcagne, Isabelle Gerasole, David Brown, Kristin Lynne Wallace, and Kim Seltzer & Aliya Kamalova will be bringing this unique cornucopia of shows that you probably would only get to see at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Get the full line-up, schedule, details, and tickets for Forget About Spaghetti Festival here.

Oh, if you’re wondering about the festival’s name, it’s part of a friendly feud with Rick’s, a dining establishment about a mile down the road on Riverside Dr. that famously put “SPAGHETTI IS BACK” on their marquee. Thus, it’s kind of the perfect name.