q-tips bit: delightful. wonderful
shoes off bit: divided the room and divided me. I like how he had fun with it but didn't land with me. I think you should take your shoes off. The ending was strong though. Gotta give him that.
"I ate ants. The insects. Not lady-uncles."
scorpion bit:
"I can't have my last meal be ants!"
13th floor: Not my favorite. I thought the scorpion bit was still going.
phone bit: meh
office bit: OOO was funny
I'm pretty sure he did the dad phone bit when Crab and I saw him live.
Boston bit: good story. I like the Boston fantasy accent
Parent bit: I liked it. funny voice.
Carousel bit: funny
Last words: IT SHOULD BE YOU!
"I kept yelling I'm okay but no one was checking."
closer: fun and sweet in a Pete Holmes way
Overall: I liked it! Very well put together. He's good at what he does.
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Maybe it's something he has crafted intentionally to be a part of his style, but I really like it when he cracks himself up. Reminds me of when we saw him in college and he said 'this next part is just for me' before diving headfirst into the Pierce bit. I love that because it means he's doing this for his own enjoyment. You gotta have fun with it.
OOO was perfectly stupid and delightful. Especially from the perspective of a person who doesn't know what the acronyms mean. I found it refreshing to briefly live in a world where I didn't know all the stupid office jargon.
Also it wasn't a hugely impactful moment, but his comment on his wife reading something in the news going 'OH NO!!!', scaring him with the perceived gravity of an unknown and dire event, only to then reveal it as something completely benign and not worth the original grave exclamation was too real to me. Liz has done that for as long as I've known her and those spikes of pure adrenaline over nothing had to be acclimated to early. Even better with Liz is that she'll do that, get me scared, and then she keeps reading whatever it is for ten actual seconds before telling me what's going on so I just have to live in paralyzed dread waiting to find out if someone finally launched the first one or if some Broadway actor left a musical earlier than expected. I felt very seen.
Silly Boston accent was good. I liked that they got grandfathered into political correctness with 'queer'. I'm not sure the statement 'Boston's love affair with the R word is still going strong' was worth the shock value of using it the sentence before, but I liked that thought on its own. But I'd have rather it been a statement out of nowhere rather than him actually using it the once, authentic Bostonian or not. Felt a bit rough as it was.
Otherwise you covered a lot of my thoughts! Glad you liked it and thanks for posting the notes! I'm not as experienced in stand up so it's cool seeing a more advanced and discerning palate at work. Thanks!!
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