Comedian Wallace can’t stop working

On Saturday, he will be host of two shows at the Atlanta Improv in Buckhead. Six days later, the club will shut down, since the landlord bought out the lease.

Wallace is not a bad-luck charm. It was just strange timing. Until last year, he graced the stage of his own 750-seat showroom at the Flamingo in Las Vegas for a decade and was dubbed “the new Mr. Las Vegas.”

The Atlanta Improv had an open date, and he found the location convenient: “It’s two blocks from my house! Why not? I made it ugly sweater night!”

He likes to do local jokes, so expect the stumbling Atlanta Falcons to get some razzing: “When the Falcons move to their new Mercedes Benz Stadium in 2017, it will be like Chick-fil-A. Both will be closed Sunday!”

And he can see the Macy’s Christmas tree on top of Lenox Square from his condo, and isn’t impressed. “The tree at my house is the same size as that tree! What kids put that up? It should be huge!”

The 63-year-old Atlanta native last year chose to leave Vegas and focus on TV and film appearances to help build a younger following. “If I stayed in Vegas, I’d miss a whole new generation,” he said. “I need to reinvent my brand.”

Over the past year, he’s appeared on Comedy Central’s “Drunk History,” IFC’s “Gigi Does It,” the Disney Channel’s “K.C. Undercover” and TV Land’s “The Soul Man.” He shot a historical film set during the Jim Crow era called “Jerico.”

He is now traveling heavily, this month alone zipping from Barcelona, Spain, to New York to his primary home in Vegas to Anchorage, Alaska. He has done 170-plus shows this year.

Friends tell him that, at his age, he needs to slow down. “I don’t know how to take it easy!” Wallace said. “I want to do more! More TV! More movies!”

Wallace hopes to play the much larger Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, perhaps in 2016.

With all the fear and terrorism in the headlines, he said, “comedy is healing. Comedy is good for the soul. We comedians should pick the president. We know how to smell bull. With a guy like Donald Trump, we know another person full of bull. He wants to build a wall against the Mexicans. And they’re building tunnels! We should build a wall around Trump and have Mexico pay for it!”

As for Ben Carson: “I don’t trust anyone who talks with their eyes closed.”

But, while his politics are not compatible with those of 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, they are friends. He even plans to join Cain on his radio show, heard mid-mornings locally on News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB, on Wednesday. “We like each other even if he goes the wrong direction!” Wallace said.

He’s also a close buddy of Jerry Seinfeld, and was in favor of Seinfeld doing a residency at New York City’s Beacon Theatre starting next year.

“He lives down the street,” Wallace said. “It’s 2,500 seats. People will come to New York and see him.”

Plus, he said, Seinfeld’s workload is not that heavy. “It’s once a month. I did five shows a week for 10 years!”