With Dan Frigolette and Erik Anker, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sunshine Studios Live, 3970 Clearview Frontage Road, $8; 392-8921, sunshinestudioslive.com

Two East Coast comedians recently embarked on a cross-country tour to get their names out there and celebrate the funny people they find along the way.

“Comedy’s Best Kept Secret Tour” is Dan Frigolette’s baby. The New York City stand-up comedian, along with Erik Anker, a stand-up comedian from Boston, will make 37 stops, starting in Barberton, Ohio, and ending in Anchorage, Alaska. Several other headliners will join them in select cities. The tour stops at Sunshine Studios Live on Sunday.

“The problem with comedy these days is less and less names are known by the general public,” says Frigolette from New York. “In the late ’80s and early ’90s there was a giant boom. If you were funny on stage, they gave you a scripted TV show. But from the mid-’90s to today, a fair amount of comedy clubs have closed.”

He believes, though, that the tide is turning, and calls today’s stand-up comedy scene “one of the strongest chunks of comedic time that it’s ever been.”

In a handful of stops (Denver is one), the tour will hold a “Make Me Laugh Competition” for locals. Winners of each competition will join parts of the tour and receive free headshots, website help and press coverage.

Frigolette has a decade of experience in the stand-up business, with appearances on “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Wendy Williams Show,” “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” and “Comedy Time,” among others, and has produced the Hoboken Comedy Festival in New Jersey.

Anker won Frigolette’s “Make Me Laugh Albany” contest in November, and has also played at SXSW, The Comedy Exposition in Chicago and the High Plains Comedy Festival in Denver.

Frigolette has never been to Colorado, but he’s been trying to get a feel for the place.

“It seems to me Colorado Springs is the kind of town where walking in the gate you might have to be a little more conservative about what you talk about.”

And if that initial impression doesn’t match up with reality, he’ll take it in stride.

“The constant in every joke is the voice, the person telling it,” he says. “Sometimes you do have a joke that walks that line, but you teeter it and adjust.”

JEN MULSON, THE GAZETTE, 636-0270, JEN.MULSON@GAZETTE.COM