Coachella Review: Comedians Of Comedy
I apologize. I said I would be let you know how Coachella went and
it's been a week already. That's like ten years in blogger news time.
Or something. Now I'm probably going to go into overkill mode; I
intend to review each of the twenty-some acts I saw. If you're not a
fan of overkill, you can read daily summaries over at Buzzgrinder
California, where I'm starting to help out.
Going chronologically, my first victim shall be the Comedians Of
Comedy. The only non-music act all weekend. Whatever.
I was excited to check these guys out because I've gotten my share of
laughs from a few of their comedians on Comedy Central and I've always
enjoyed Patton Oswalt's character on King Of Queens.
Oswalt was the emcee so he was out first to warm up the crowd. I'm not
quite sure where he went wrong, but nobody was laughing. Maybe it was
because his first words on stage were asking everyone to sit down, and
then pointing out and making fun of individuals who couldn't find room
to sit. Then he sang some random "hobo songs" that made no sense, and
gave a disgusting description of what it must look like for a
60-year-old woman giving birth. Then he introduced Jasper Redd, who
got even less laughs, if that were even possible. I decided to leave
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