Gingers On Ice bringing comedy act to Post Falls

Gingers On Ice is a live blend of sketch, improv and stand-up comedy. It features two comedians, Jacob Godbey and Alex Tait, who both attend the University of Montana. After warm receptions in their home state, the two redheads are taking their show on the road.

The tour will take them through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California and Utah, but the Gingers are kicking it off with a show in Post Falls at The Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center, 405 N. Williams St. The entertainment takes place on Friday, June 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the JACC’s website, or at Godbey’s website, jrgcomedy.com.

“We tell stand-up jokes, then we’ll do an improv scene, and then we’ll be mimes for six minutes,” Tait said. “And it’s tied together with our aggressive uncoolness,” Godbey added.

While the show title, Gingers On Ice, may imply that the show features figure skating, the two insist they’ve never ice skated before.

“We just try to make you laugh hard enough that you’ll forget we don’t have ice skates on. Most theaters won’t let us flood and freeze the place,” Godbey said.

Both have ample experience in the comedy world. As part of the team that brought home the trophy from a statewide Montana improv comedy competition in March last year, they returned this year to defend their title. They were both in the first “class” of sketch and improv comedians to take the stage at the Stensrud Playhouse in Missoula, Mont., more than two years ago.

Godbey is from Lewistown, Mont., and despite his youth (he’s all of 20), he’s a comedy veteran. He headed troupe Keep Refrigerated Comedy throughout high school and tackled a Web series (and got school credit for it) his senior year.

Tait is from Jackson, Wyo., and he cut his teeth doing “a bunch of standup” in bars around the University of Wyoming. He said his routine included him talking about his “no-no square” entirely too much.

“Alex is much better at stand-up, while I like sketches and music. So we put it all together and throw some of our videos in there too,” Godbey said. “There’s a lot of variety. We like to keep the audience on their toes.”