The Whistler Adaptive Sports Program (WASP) wants to tickle your funny bone on Friday (April 17) with an evening of Comedy in the Creek. But you’d better act quickly if you want to attend the show.

Only 80 tickets are available for this one-night comedy club-esque event at the fabulous Nita Lake Lodge. The intimate location will host the comedic talents of Whistler’s own Pete Crutchfield, known as the Quadfather of Comedy, and a Paralympic hopeful.

Crutchfield will be joined by fellow funnymen Dan Quinn and Tim Rykert. Vancouver-based Quinn first got into comedy in Edmonton, where he won a contest dubbing him the funniest new comic. He’s since taken first place in the Canadian competition at Montreal’s Just for Laughs festival and filmed his own TV special.

Rykert dubs himself as “comic, writer, actor, producer,” snowboarder and more. In addition to several TV appearances, he toured North America as an opening act for Michael Bublé.

Tickets for this laugh fest are $20 at the door ($15 for WASP members), or in advance at www.whistleradaptive.com. The show starts at 8 p.m. at Nita Lake Lodge.

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GET DOWN AND SHHHH! IT’S A SILENT DISCO: Now here’s something new and original. B.C.’s first-ever “Silent Disco” hits the GLC with a resounding silence on Saturday (April 18). The Kokanee Silent Disco is a unique Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival (TWSSF) event where participants are given free Skullcandy headphones at the door, and then they select which of the live DJs they want to groove to during the evening by tuning in with a receiver.

Featuring Team Canada, Mister Fister, DJ Surgeon and Foxy Moron, this fun soiree promises to be the quietest party of the festival! Talk about dancing to your own rhythm!

It should be a hoot just to watch a sea of silent dancers. Tickets are $20 at the door, which opens at 10:30 p.m.

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IT’S 420 AT DUSTY’S: As if there weren’t enough events, parties and celebrations going on during TWSSF, along comes Dusty’s 420 Party on Monday (April 20).

This shindig has been going on for nine years, though, so even though it isn’t officially part of the TWSSF, it still’s a Whistler tradition. The party gets started at (who’d of thought?) 4:20 p.m. on Dusty’s patio in Creekside.

The “celebration of happiness” features an impressive roster of musicians, DJs and acts including Nobody Really and Godfrey, MC Project, Animal Nation, Kostaman, plus DJs Phroh, Aperture and evolve. Sounds like a pretty rocking party!

The event runs from 4:20 p.m. to 1 a.m. with only a $10 cover.

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FINAL CALL FOR WHISTLER STORIES SUBMISSIONS: 2009 is the final year for the Whistler Film Festival’s short film competition for B.C. filmmakers. Interested filmmakers have until May 1 to submit treatments or scripts for this final chapter of Whistler Stories.

Whistler Stories is a $5,000 short film commission competition for B.C. filmmakers as well as a 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics legacy program for the Whistler area. This year’s completed films will become part of the Whistler Film Festival’s Whistler Stories project, which includes 15 films commissioned to date.

Films can be documentary, fictional, or animated, but they must be based on stories from Whistler or the surrounding area, and have one of the Olympic pillars of culture, environment, education and/or sport in their subject matter. Submission guidelines are available at www.whistlerfilmfestival.com.

As well, the WFF is broadening this last program to include local youth. The Whistler Stories Youth Program provides teens aged 14 to 19 from the Sea to Sky corridor with the opportunity to work in teams to write, shoot and produce a short film, learn about digital film production and participate in a film festival experience.

There is no fee for teens to participate but they must submit a registration form (available for download at www.whistlerfilmfestival.com) by May 8.