It’s not funny, it’s just… Horrible. Elitist, classist, sexist, just… Rank. Heckling (by some autistic bloke who actually works here), and just… So bad.
I got convinced to go to this thing. It’s like, as local as you could get, for me, but yeah…
Dunno if comedy is like this where you live, but man, in this “hipster bar”, dear god there is no way this was worth the cover charge.
Eugh…
Funny story, when I was still in college, people thought I'd be a great stand-up comedian.
I've been to a few, before the pandemic, just to spend time with family doing something. They're usually awful, unless you see a big star. Random nobodies just hit the approved targets, and once you've heard one joke about BoJo's hair, you've really heard them all.
What you're getting is the likely equivalent to that, where the approved target is your own people because you can't get canceled and politicians are too boring to mock. Similar to how female "comedians" made their niche about talking about how trashy they are.
I left when the, no joke, local “advertising star” (TasGas, if you’re interested. It’ll be on YouTube, and it’s terrible) was making a “joke” about the high local vaccination rate, and how “great” that is…
No fucking lie.
Both I and my “date” would have cringed, at that, but I had been so thoroughly… “Neglected” by her, at that point, that I decided I was fucking out…
So then I had to negotiate three whole rooms full of hipster wankers, just to leave this building early…
Fucking horrible. And the whole time, autistic/lack of social cues weirdo was heckling the comedians with the most inane shit, probably looking for a fight…
Eugh…
What’s a middle class commuter city in the UK??
Stroud? Slough? Milton Keynes?
Imagine a comedy night somewhere like that, with comedians from… Fucking Essex, but with an insecurity/chip on their shoulder, and you essentially have what I was subjected to tonight…
Fucking horrible.
Jokes slagging off your own children/partner (female on male, in this case) just aren’t that funny, if you’re shit at it, IMHO…
But it was the jokes about “small towns in the state” which really irked me, tbh. Because they were just… Nasty. Unpleasant…
... OK, I'm imagining the crowd as being from Ponoka and Red Deer.
shudders