Got to see one of my favorite comedians, voice actors and D&D aficionados back in February (the digging out continues!). Hot off his 30 years of being a stand-up last Summer, Brian had a mix of great new jokes and material from when I saw him at Moontower 2017. He killed. Currently, I love his closing story about a mental patient named Benny he knew from his childhood via his mother’s nursing career. This patient was best left alone in his own world but a classmate thought it would be funny to hit Benny with a water balloon. Shortly after Benny was soaked, he went after Brian’s friend and pummeled the kid. It took six adults to pull Benny off Brian’s severely bruised buddy. In short, Benny is Trump and we better hope there are enough adults in the White House to save us from the small-handed vulgarian’s impulses.
I also love his bit regarding Aunt May from Spider-Man comic books and how it’s not fair to have an attractive actress play the part (Marisa Tomei) after decades of disliking the character. I do agree with him that Aunt May was often a pill yet she was vital to Marvel’s realistic storytelling; Peter Parker had real-world problems to juggle while he was fighting New York’s craziest robbers.
After the show, got my traditional face time. Gave him some money to help offset the expenses to his awesome D&D-focused podcast, Nerd Poker. Still scanning for the shout out to my Fellowship of Pflugerville: Opal, Seilu, Hitana, Avani and Impavidus Goldfrapp. To close out, I told Brian how I really loved his movie Uncle Nick and it’s going to be a tradition for me, alongside other great Xmas flicks I prefer…Gremlins, About a Boy and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. You should do the same, it’s really clever despite being dark. I reviewed it about two years ago.
Opening for Brian again was his good friend and former roommate Ngaio Bealum. Another hilarious guy. A good chunk of Ngaio’s material is weed jokes but he does much more, namely a strong bit involving his early days when he played Waco with Doug Benson. He was really sweet in person. I forgot to ask him about his work with Weird Al as the MC stated in his introduction.
If either Brian and/or Ngaio are passing through your town. SEE THEM! You will laugh your asses off.