Stephen W.
Yelp
ACC was a mixed bag. The food was OK. We had the sweet potato tots (not the best), the chicken sliders (pretty good) and the blt sliders (pretty good). Needless to say, the food was waaaay overpriced to compensate for the $20/table tickets.
There were 5 comedians, plus a special guest. I would say two of them were worth the price. I am by no means a prude, but most of the comedians resorted to raunchy comedy. That's fine ... IF it's funny. Most of the stuff was just not funny, sorry to say.
The opener was a 6 foot 7 inch guy who predictably spent most of his "act" ragging on short men. I guess now that it's taboo to joke about women, black people, and Asians, it's still OK to debase short people and/or disabled people. If the guy had any talent *some* of it would have been funny, but because he was a struggling boring amateur, he simply came across as a guy using his stature (and privileged status) to vent on the types of people he personally doesn't like.
One of the women spent 15 minutes onstage talking about her vibrators and masturbating in the shower. Could be funny ? Possibly. Was she funny ? NOT AT ALL. And her "drugged out" stage persona was just silly.
The dude from Oakland who's now in Vegas was definitely the best (he was the special guest). His "50 year old" routine was very funny and very clever.
Again, I'm not averse to raunchy, offensive humor .... IF it's actually funny. Simply going on stage to be an a$$h__e without having the comic chops to back it up is not going to help anyone's career.
I know different comedy appeals to different people, but simply spewing 4-letter words and trying to joke about your sex life with yourself seems lazy to me. Do the work. Write some clever material. Show the audience that you are *prepared* to entertain with something clever. It's the Bay Area. It's Alameda.