An Evening with "The Daily Show and and Friends" Thursday, December 4 @ Comix

John Oliver at Comix
An Evening with "The Daily Show and and Friends" Thursday, December 4 @ Comix

From a location what I believe used to be local dive bar "The Village Idiot" the newish New York City comedy forum Comix presents periodically the test platform for the writers of the Comedy Central' Daily Show to test new material. All this for $15 and a two drink minimum.

After Tattoo Jack gets your Stella, you sit down for three comics and a MC/warm up guy. This guy was a gay Pakistani. I have never seen a openly gay Pakistani. He had a good joke. He spoke of the old 80's Christmas song "Do they know it's Christmas", which was a British pop song for Ethiopian famine relief. Our gay Pakistani retorts do those those Brits know they are Muslims? Take that Sting!

The next guy so was so horrible I won't even mention him by name. It was just an uncomfortable set for everyone. He just made the audience nervous with his unabashed hostility.

Then Finally relief, Rory Albanese walks up. He's a pro. He does very little and gets a joke. He is good with using the mic to have sound effects. I appreciate this. He is from Long Island and gets the local perspective in with jokes about Jersey et al. However, he starts to lose the audience by getting too much into your face. He comes off as just plain mean at times, so much so that you can't relate and therefore he is no longer funny. Rory was a funny guy but he needs to a little off his shtick.

The star of the show was John Oliver, who is a regular on the Daily Show. He took over for Steven Colbert as John Stewart's main reporter. Oliver's style was refreshing as it was confident and respectful. He drifted between middle and highbrow humor but not so stuffy as to walk around like some animal. John was my favorite because he took things further than most. He seemed to go with the notion of what if I explained the world as of everyone was confidently and purposely trying to do the right thing. If people weren't incredible dumb and filled with vice. It's funny to me!