Matt Sadler, an Austin-based stand-up comic, is the host of the raunchy trivia video game The Guy Game, which is basically 20 Questions featuring drunken Spring Break coeds. But inspiring drunken women to remove their clothing for a frat-boy game is only one of Sadler’s many talents. Sadler has been cracking wise for 15 years or so, and he’s gotten pretty damn good at it, if he does say so himself (and he does; Sadler enjoys speaking about himself in the third person). Aside from his participation in The Guy Game, Sadler is actually pretty tasteful, as far as successful contemporary comedians go. Even his dirty jokes hold something back — they’re more Archie Bunker than The Aristocrats. When he’s not onstage, Sadler provides sharp-witted satire at Quirkee.com, an online publication in the same vein as The Onion. Recently returned from a two-year tour entertaining troops in Asia and the Middle East, Sadler is sure to have plenty of new material.

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This article appears in Aug 16-22, 2007.

Nicholas L. Hall is a husband and father who earns his keep playing a video game that controls the U.S. power grid. He also writes for the Houston Press about food, booze and music, in an attempt to keep...