Margo Turner Steve Bills, Comics on Duty World Tour comic and road manager, starts the April 24 show in the Catering and Conference Center on Washington Navy Yard. Bills and three other performers entertained a lunchtime crowd at the center, courtesy of MWR.

Steve Bills, comic and road manager, kicked off the show with a bit about his most boring job, as the security guard at ‘‘Every Thing is a Dollar” store. He was only allowed to carry a weapon kept in the store inventory.

‘‘You have to steal the whole store to get a dollar’s worth,” said Bills, who introduced Drake Witham, the first of three comics making their debut on the Yard with the tour.

Witham asked the audience: ‘‘Anyone here from Arlington, Va.?” No one responded. He shrugged his shoulders and proceeded with his bit about what it was like growing up in his family’s home in Arlington.

‘‘When I was 14, my father caught me drinking,” said Witham. ‘‘I said, ‘Dad, that’s the first time.’ He said, ‘That’s a lie. Nobody gets caught the first time.’ Then I robbed a bank.”

Witham was a reporter with the Dallas Morning News, where he started his comedy career by entertaining 200 co-workers at a Christmas party in 2001. When he first started doing comedy, he worked as a temp to help make ends meet.

‘‘One of the things I did to earn money was to sit up front while kids took their SAT,” said Witham. ‘‘I didn’t care if they cheated because I’m a temp. I said, ‘You know kids, I didn’t cheat and look where it got me.’”

Before leaving the stage, Witham introduced Kira Soltanovich, a former Russian immigrant. As soon as she grabbed the microphone, Soltanovich began looking around the dining room and spotted a Sailor sitting himself at a table to her right. ‘‘You look delicious,” she screamed into the microphone. ‘‘How old are you, sweet pickle?” The Sailor replied that he’s in his 20s. ‘‘Oh my goodness, 20 something,” said Soltanovich.

Soltanovich changed the topic by telling the audience that she and her fiancÈe plan to be married May 24. She’s Jewish and he’s a ‘‘hard core Irish Catholic,” said Soltanovich. He proposed when she least expected: Christmas Day.

Tom Cotter followed Soltanovich, who briefly introduced him as she left the stage. One of Cotter’s bits was about political correctness.

‘‘I was just working at a casino where they changed all the names of the games because they didn’t want to offend anyone,” said Cotter. ‘‘No longer is it Black Jack. Now it’s African American Jack. No longer is it a one-eyed Jack. Now he’s visually impaired Jack.”

Cotter said he’s half Irish and half Scottish. ‘‘That means I like to get really drunk and wear a shirt,” he said. ‘‘It also means that I’ve never had a tan in my life. I’m the ultra Caucasian.”

The next Comics on Duty show is scheduled for Oct. 23 on the Yard and will feature Bills, Jay Larson, Dave Landau and Tom Foss. The NSAW Morale, Welfare, Recreation and the Civilian Morale, Welfare and Recreation Association sponsor the show.