DeVan Penegar is the founder of Degenerate Productions CLT. 
He began booking shows with headliners in May 2011, starting with Nikki Glaser. It became a production group when he received the much needed help of Derek Blackmon and Chris Layton.

DeVan started as a typical sad bastard singer-songwriter, putting out a DIY album called "Small Town" in 2008. After too many frustrating gigs in dive bars for drunks who didn't appreciate his incessantly whiny lyrics about depression, he traded the guitar for jokes and transitioned into doing stand-up. Still whiny. And often still about depression.

His jokes started as absurd one liners and observations but after too many hit or miss nights (mostly misses) he realized that style wasn't right for him. DeVan met one of his comedy heroes Marc Maron at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta and Maron's advice to "dig deeper" had an impact on him. For better or worse (mostly worse), DeVan has treated the stage like a therapy session ever since. When asked to describe his act DeVan simply said, "Most people annoy me." Perhaps a more accurate description of his comedy might be that he is presenting a dark immoral persona daring audiences to laugh at things they normally wouldn't.

Under Degenerate he has worked with his musical hero indie rocker Alina Simone and comics such as prankster Brendon Walsh. DeVan is slowly working on a book manuscript based on his SKETCHES OF DESPAIR.

DeVan is passionate about the Innocence Project
and encourages everyone to give to that wonderful organization. DeVan does not, however, encourage
anyone to write a douchey bio in the third person.
He has contemplated grabbing a sharp object more
than once since the start of typing this drivel.

Above photo by Bobby Cochran. 

Follow DeVan on Twitter.

RT @devanpenegar Why the hell does everyone in the room turn and look at ME when antidepressant commercials are on???

RT @devanpenegar People are the worst. Am I right, people?

RT @devanpenegar I can't remember the password to my social life.

RT @devanpenegar Being anti-social does have its upsides.
Like not having to deal with people for example.

RT @devanpenegar I wonder how high the thread count will
be on my death bed sheets.

RT @devanpenegar I like to think that I'm pretty good at
following something through to completio

RT @devanpenegar Some dude whipped his dick out & pissed
on my leg but then he claimed "It's raining!" so now I'm confused
about the reality of everything.

RT @devanpenegar Book idea number 157: "Fuck You, I'm Not
Paying That For a Blow Job: A collection of love stories."

RT @devanpenegar For the rest of the day I will only answer to Wolfcock Johnson Commander in Chief.

RT @devanpenegar I can't start my car without first muttering a string of profanities at my breathalyzer.

Check out my SKETCHES OF DESPAIR.