Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/arts/02BUDD.html?ex=1063606445&ei=1&en=73c1abbec4cf6cbf

On September 2, 2003 The New York Times ran a feature article on Wes Nisker, a Zen Buddhist comedian in California. "'Before I became a Buddhist, I worried about my life,' Mr. Nisker said, 'Now I worry about my next life.' Mr. Nisker, 60, bills himself as the world's first Buddhist stand-up comedian. But he is among the first to acknowledge his material is not fall-down funny, for which he blames Buddha himself. 'His First Noble Truth — that life is suffering — isn't exactly an upper,' Mr. Nisker said... But the audiences, a mix of former hippies, yippies and yuppies, sprinkled with a younger generation drawn to things Eastern, seem to get his humor as though it were an inside joke.