Also, in an addendum to the revision to the 9:30 pm post below, I think my suggestion for the new blog name might just be "Typewriter Monkeys", but I'm not at all sure that it's not actually too self-referential and navel-gazey for its own good. *
So, I stayed for Paddy Casey at 10:30, and Heidi met me there at Soho Lounge. Paddy was doing a singer-songwriter with a band kind of thing, and it wasn't immediately gripping, so after about 2 songs we headed over to try to catch Janeane Garofolo's set at Esther's Follies at 11:30.
We got in, no problem, and saw a very uneven mix of comics. The "hosts" (I'm not sure why comedy clubs feel like the people that INTRODUCE the comedians need to do comedy as they do so, I guess that's the only way you could ever get someone to work in a comedy club introducing other people, to throw them a bone and let them do 5 minutes of material themselves) were uniformly terrible, and in one case, actually offensively misogynistic. If you're going to violate social norms for behavior in an aggressive manner for shock value, please have some sort of point you're making, or at least BE FUNNY WHEN YOU DO SO, or else you're just a jackass.
So the first funny routine we saw was from Brian Posehn, whom it would take way too long to explain who he is, so I'll just put his picture up here. He had some funny bits about cats, which is a pretty good way to get started because it's an easy laugh, and he had some good relationship type stuff about him and his wife as well. He was solid, and since he mentioned Halo not ONCE, but TWICE in his 13 minute set, I now have a small altar to him set up in our bedroom.
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