“Funny Women of a Certain Age” is back for the third time at the State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton.

Monique Marvez, Maureen Langan and Ellen Karis, perform with the host and organizer of the show, Carole Montgomery, 8 p.m. May 1.

These women are fighting for equal rights with male comedians, not with any political message, but by proving they can get just as many laughs.

Ellen Karis, who calls herself “The Greek Goddess of Comedy,” grew up in a traditional Greek-American home, and uses her own family and marriage to show how we can all share the humor and warmth of daily life.   

In a phone interview from her home in Manhattan, Karis talks about visiting places in Pennsylvania that could not be found with pre-Google Maps GPS devices.

She has no trouble bringing her New York City experiences to people in the Keystone State, after she found them:

“People are people. We all work hard. And we love our families, or at least most of us do. I just had to adjust when I started doing comedy, like not talking everywhere about the New York subway.”

Karis was a CPA with an MBA in Finance. She gave up a successful career as a Wall Street analyst to do stand-up, with no regrets except that “It’s painful when I look at my income spreadsheet at the end of the year.

“There is some overlap,” she says. “I am very responsible adding up in my head how much it costs to see the show, including gas, parking and tickets. I want to give people value.”

Karis does not regret her career change, but says, “This is how God made me. It took a long time to make peace with it. I feel this is what I should be doing, and I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t love what I’m doing.”

It was even more difficult when she began because “when I started women comics were almost unheard of. It has evolved over time. Now it is about fifty-fifty at this point between men and women, but only about 25 percent of headliners in shows are women.”

A standard comedy show in a club has an opener, a middle act often called a feature, and a headliner.

“Even now, if there are two women on a three-person show, it is often called a women’s show. We are trying, even though sometimes it can be painful.”

“Funny Women of a Certain Age” is a project begun by Carole Montgomery. The tour stopped at the State Theatre and Sellersville Theater last year.

The shows feature Montgomery and three other women drawn from a rotating list of about 100 who are of age 40 or older.

Karis calls Montgomery a mentor, praising her for getting work for women comics, who often sell out theaters, and for the quality of the people she chooses for the tours.

Karis is also an actress. She played a waitress in four seasons of Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and appeared in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and other films and television shows.

She has broadcast 400 shows of her Apple podcast, “Sweet and Salty with Ellen Karis,” originally titled “Karis Comedy Corner.”

“I have had a whole array of guests, including authors, comedians and motivational speakers. In the last year or so, I have done more solo shows.”

In the solo “Thoughts and Talk” segments, the subjects range from the Super Bowl to the new mayor of New York City to her own comedy shows and tours.

In 2020, she wrote a children’s book, “Special People: Godparents in the Orthodox Christian Faith,” which filled a unique niche. She has often performed in churches, which helped her produce clean and appropriate material.

She mentions a special goal: “I am working on a one-woman show about my great grandmother coming here from Cyprus. It has both sadness and funny parts, without making any political statements. I want to tour with it.”

“Funny Women of a Certain Age”: Monique Marvez, Carole Montgomery, Maureen Langan, Ellen Karis, 7:30 p.m. May 1, State Theatre Center for the Arts, 453 Northampton St., Easton. Tickets: 610-252-3132, https://www.statetheatre.org