A sold-out show in Austin with Dave Attell! Years ago, he used to have a show on Comedy Central called Insomniac in which he’d travel to a particular city to explore what there was to do from late evening until dawn. Dave even came to cover Austin which sadly isn’t has 24-hour as it used to be when I moved here in the Nineties. If there are any people active between midnight and dawn, it’s third-shifters working at a call center or startup.
Dave was on fire. He’s one of those rapid-fire jokers. Shifting from topic to topic. Doing crowd work. The man is sharp. I thought everybody had done all the jokes you could make about Cap City’s location in a strip mall. Nope. Dave had three new ones I hadn’t thought about.
I thanked him during the photo op for making those phone calls to Marc Maron; usually to talk and/or plug his other shows. His latest Dave Attell: Road Work is now on Netflix, I highly recommend him but he’s not for the squeamish or politically correct.