Word, Dawg!

Saturday night, after a dinner of spicy pizza, I headed over to Comedy Bar for some stand-up. The MC for the evening was local comic Joe Vu.Having recently left a relationship, he was having trouble with Tindr. Mostly because girls don't date Asian men. He gave several funny statistics about why they should change their minds though it all came down (negatively that is) to "small dicks".

First up was Lauren Mitchell who has a podcast about rapper Drake. She started her set with numerous reasons why she would be perfect as a member of a rap posse. The other topic was the hellishness of menstruation because "as a feminist", she loves to "alienate" men. Mitchell was more an amusing friend than a hilarious comic. The second performer elicited some surprise because of her celebrity status. Mary Lyn Rajskub is best known for her role as Chloe on 24. So she suggested that she was gigging because all that "great TV money" was spent (Rajskub is actually in town filming). She mostly riffed on the her personality as a neurotic, anxious person whether on set (she typed positive affirmations during all those hacking scenes), in life (maybe it's better to be porn-hot or stupid-hot), and even her TV habits (she likes less intense shows like The Property Brothers).

The head-liner was Myq Kaplan. He was a short comic (though he never did any height jokes) with a deep voice (which he used to great effect in his Monster voice bit) who had a penchant for off-the-cuff word play (his stream-of-consciousness riffing that got him from "pacifist" to "flaccid fist" was inspired). Some parts were obviously pre-written such as his attempt to debunk a psychic or why salvia is mushroom with an evil 'stache while other bits were improvised. He was also a rap fan, especially the free-style battles. Kaplan's humour derived from his almost non-stop verbiage, smoothly moving between improv and prepared material. He was a great stand-up and the set had several gut-busting moments.