A lot of words can be used to describe zombies: gruesome, bloody and cannibalistic. They might only exist in Goosebumps books, nightmares or horror movies like Night of the Living Dead, but this Halloween, zombies will be in Chicago doing something out of the ordinary zombie routine-stand-up comedy.

The Edge Comedy Club, 777 N. Green St., is hosting its first-ever, “Zombedy: A Zombie Stereotype Comedy Show.” Comedians will act like zombies, dressed in full zombie attire, and tell strictly zombie jokes.

Dave Odd is the founder and creator of The Edge Comedy Club, which opened in September 2007. He came up with the idea last year but didn’t have enough time to prepare for a show, so he decided to elaborate on the idea and go forward with it this year.

“If you can imagine an alternate world where zombies do stand-up comedy,” he said. “It will be stand-up comedians talking about eating brains and getting shot with shotguns all the time and jokes related to it.”

Odd has been preparing for the show for the past three months and has had a difficult time recruiting comedians because many actors have been hesitant to sign up because of the uncommon theme. So far he has found six comedians to participate in the show.

The only female zombie will be Christine Parisi, who has been working at The Edge Comedy Club for a year. Up until now, her full-time art teaching job didn’t allow her to participate in shows because she couldn’t find time to think of jokes and sketches. But when she heard about this show, she said she signed up because she has always been a fan of zombies and coming up with zombie jokes is not as difficult as most people might think.

Parisi likes to play her guitar when doing stand-up and is composing a “zombie-themed” song, which she said is a surprise for that night. Most of her influences for sketches come from Weird Al Yankovic and Sarah Silverman.

Aside from being one of the stand-up comedians, she will also be doing double duty as an artist for the show. She said she knows a lot of techniques from her theater classes. Her palette colors are purple, green and gray, and it will take longer to illustrate open wounds and sores because of all the detail it takes to make it look realistic.

“It will take an hour to do the makeup for each ‘zombie,'” she said. “It will be about six hours to get them ready, but that’s just for the makeup part; we all have to come up with our own costumes.”

Tony Pisandschi is planning on wearing an old pair of jeans and a ripped, dirty T-shirt for his zombie costume. He is a junior at Columbia majoring in film and video, and has been working at the club for a couple of months.

“I’m just trying to get into the mind of a zombie and thinking like one,” he said. “It’s good to watch zombie movies to come up with jokes.”

If movies aren’t enough to help him with the sketches, Pisandschi jokingly said he is willing to bite into his skin just to see how it would feel being a zombie.

Someone who will be part of the show but not a zombie that night is the club manager, Jay Scholtes, a Columbia theater alumnus. He controls everything behind the scenes from the music to the lights.

“We’re looking into doing something related to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video,” he said. “It’s all about having fun with the zombie-related theme, and hopefully we can do a performance for the audience before the sketch comedy begins.”

The outcome of this show is yet to be seen, but Parisi said she hopes people would reconsider hanging out at haunted houses on Halloween and instead of being scared, spend their night laughing.

Odd said the actors won’t be rehearsing for the show because of their conflicting schedules.

“Even though stand-up might be a little unusual to go to on Halloween night, this is going to be a show with a Halloween spirit,” Parisi said. “And besides, people can still dress up as zombies and have a good time.”

Catch “Zombedy: A Zombie Stereotype Comedy Show,” on Oct. 31 at 10:30 p.m. Anyone who dresses in a zombie costume will get in for half-price.