The Natasha Hour

What: Natasha Leggero

When: 8 p.m., Thursday; 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., Friday; and 10:30 p.m., Saturday

Where: ACME Comedy Co.

Cost:$15-30

Age:18+

She’s sitting on a pile of white powder. She has a nose bleed. And she isn’t really wearing clothes. On the cover of her live stand-up CD, “Coke Money,” comedian Natasha Leggero is covered in diamonds and fishnet stockings.

If you stop admiring the cover long enough to crack it open, you’ll hear a glamorously monotone voice take aim at just about everything we hold dear, from phone books to rappers sampling pop classics.

“And I think I’m down to two rape jokes, so hopefully the audience can handle it,” Leggero said.

The Los Angeles comedian, originally from Rockford, Ill., said she battles with her tendency to tweet an idea for a joke and never develop it later.

“What I like to do is take one of the ideas and long-form write about it, to try and think of all the angles,” she said.

Leggero, who often confronts her audiences wearing cocktail dresses and evening gloves, addresses her looks on “Coke Money”: “Male comics are always coming up to me, like, ‘Hey Natasha, don’t you think you’re a little attractive to be a comedian?’ And I’m like, ‘Don’t you think you’re a little ugly to be talking to me?’”

You can go ahead and call Leggero sassy — you wouldn’t be the first, given her tendency to point out the horrors of gang culture and old money culture alike with an appropriately appalled and straight-forward zing — but the whip smart comedian has an answer for that label too.

“Sassy. I hate that word,” she said, calling it sexist. “Think of a sassy man. Who would that be?”

Leggero hits reality TV especially hard, imitating the insecure girls trying out for “American Idol,” the new moms on “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” and Bristol Palin on “Dancing With the Stars.”

But Leggero isn’t just sitting around watching reality TV all day. When she’s not performing her standup act, she chats on her podcast, “The Lavender Hour,” with her crackly-voiced comedian/boyfriend Duncan Trussell and slams celebs on the “Chelsea Lately” round table. Leggero will be in six episodes of Chelsea Handler’s new show, “Are You There Chelsea?”

In order to get where she’s at, however, Leggero overcame an uneventful Illinois upbringing, during which she dreamt of leaving the Midwest constantly.

“I used to work in a grocery store when I was like, 15, and I would just stare at the clock and fantasize about the day I’d be getting out,” Leggero said.

Now that she’s gone and established herself in California, Leggero has found a wealth of material in Los Angeles.

 “There’s so much to make fun of, living here,” Leggero said.“Everybody thinks everything revolves around them. Even the homeless people — it’s all about them.”