Boston native and internationally touring comic Rich Ceisler will play Manchester’s Headliners Comedy Club at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 11.

In the laugh business for 32 years, Ceisler’s comic perspective draws on life’s quirks and daily situations, and the comic said he likes to laugh at ordinary things.

“Usually just watching people and seeing some of the stupidity that they display every day makes me crack up,” he said. “Whether it’s signs I see or people misusing words or saying things wrong, that stuff makes me laugh.”

One area where Ceisler doesn’t tread is the political arena.

“I stay away from politics almost completely,” he said. “First of all, not only do I play a lot of international venues, but I have a lot of international audiences. So I try to keep my stuff regarding things as human beings that we all experience collectively as opposed to political things. Because if you’re doing something political to an international crowd and they don’t know the premise, you first have to set up the whole premise and explain it and then explain why it’s funny.”

He said he likes material that knows no boundaries – geographically speaking.

“For example, I just wrote a joke about having to buy a cheaper tablet instead of the iPad,” Ceisler said. “It doesn’t have as many games, and they’re not as good. So on the one I bought, the birds aren’t angry, they’re just disappointed. That presupposes that the audience is going to know about ‘Angry Birds.’ That’s pretty much part of pop culture now.

“That’s why I try to do more situational stuff – I’m not worried about people not getting it.”

And though he’s originally from Beantown, Ceisler doesn’t really draw on his upbringing for laughs.

“I really don’t, but when I play to local audiences … yeah, I pump it up with things that I see, but I’m used to doing cruises and playing in England and Australia,” he said. “But let’s say I’m playing in New Hampshire, and although it’s a very dated reference, I might do a joke about liking New Hampshire because there you can laugh and have a sense of humor. You’d have to have a sense of humor to vote for a guy named Dick Swett.”

Obviously, Ceisler said, a joke like that is only going to fly in the Granite State, “but if I do it in Manchester, I’m obviously kind of endearing myself to the crowd, because I’ve made some kind of local reference.”

Ceisler remains a busy guy, doing 13 cruises, 20-30 corporate gigs, 10-20 clubs and another 25 dates each year. And when he’s not performing, he said he likes to relax with his girlfriend at his second home in Montreal.

As for going the corporate route, Ceisler does have a specialty.

“I’m not introduced as a comedian; I’m introduced as an expert in the field, and I do a double-talk speech which is gibberish and it takes them about eight minutes for the audience to figure out that I’m a fake.”

Ceisler calls the ruse “the corporate chameleon.”

Still, life on the road has changed a lot for the comic, who has appeared everywhere from HBO and Comedy Central to A&E and Showtime.

“As you get older, you go through different phases. When you’re younger, you’re playing clubs, you’re on the road, you’re staying in crappy condos, you’re doing a lot of college dates. As you get a little older, you’re doing more clubs that have better accommodations and you’re doing more private gigs. And at the stage I’m at now, I do corporate and cruises – first of all, I work very clean on those things. And a lot of guys can’t work an hour or an hour and a half with clean material. It takes a long time to develop that stuff. You just go through different phases.”

So if Ceisler hadn’t chosen comedy (or perhaps it’s the other way around), what might have been his calling?

“I’d probably have been a litigation lawyer,” he said. “I have the gift of bull—-.”

Headliners Comedy Club is in the Radisson Hotel, 700 Elm St., Manchester. Tickets are $20 and are available at the door or online at headlinerscomedyclub.com. Rich Ceisler can be reached at richcomedy.com.