OG’s Quick Review of a Packed Tailgators Tuesday

Too much comedy going on in this city, it’s like the 80s only without the coke.

Anyone thinks of wearing suspenders and I will burn Ottawa to the ground, I will not put up with that shit again.

MC Herb Irving

Is almost a caricature of a comedian, that is he’s deeply generic from material to delivery, I saw nothing new thus nothing particularly interesting. His first big laugh came from a bit pointing out that the audience wasn’t laughing that much.

Alex Wood

Got two applause breaks in his first minute on stage so there you go. It should be noted that Alex is a scum-sucking weasel cum-dumpster diver for not only getting free passes to the new Batman movie but the chance to do a set before the movie. How many comedians get to open for the Dark Knight? How many dream of such a thing? Well just me and that’s why Alex is a jerk.

Eric Russo

Continues to do his best Dane Cook and the best Dane Cook is no Dane cook.

Dom Pare

Jebus that guy again? From now on unless he Bomb Pare’s it I’m not going to say anymore about him.

Carrie Gaetz

Is off the Just For Laughs to do a life changing six minutes but no pressure! Actually there isn’t Carrie killed last night, she’ll kill in Montreal, the end.

Two funny Carrie moments:

Coming off stage Jason tells her she went fifteen seconds over six minutes, “but don’t worry,” Jason said helpfully, “Forty five seconds of that was laughs, you won’t get that in Montreal.” Thanks coach, Jason then went on and asked the cancer kid in the wheel chair why he spends so much money on running shoes.

The second when she gave me her new spiffy business card, out of tradition and habit I started to put it into my wallet… “Oh!” she said without a trace of deliberate irony “You can’t keep it, I only have seven.” And to make it clear she wasn’t joking she gingerly took it back, smoothing out one of the edges. I can’t wait till she scribbling her number on the back of a cocktail napkin for a bemused Lorne Michaels because the Keith’s rep got her last one.

HL Doug Funk

Never got the chance to see Doug until last night, only heard good things and those things were accurate. He is excellent. Solid, clean, universal material, precise and engaging delivery, superb Brian Regan quality miming and a stripper pole bit that cause me to near choke on my beer. I loved his set right up until the end; his closing bit was a glaring disappointment. It starts off cute; when you say “can’t” with a Scottish brogue it sounds like “cunt”. It’s executed flawlessly, the accent is perfect and the puppet show delivery a creative twist but what should be a quick one shot is milked and milked and milked and then the cow dies, a witch doctor is brought in then the cow is resurrected for one more giant teat squeeze. It was like the cherry on the sundae I was enjoying was replaced with an olive pit.