Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney is out with an extended and uncensored CD of his Comedy Central stand-up special, New in Town, which premiered last month. It's a comedy set that has Mulaney at the top of his game.
Mulaney has the kind ofpleasant on stage personality that
gets the audience rooting for him. In an
on-line interview with Kimberly Potts on The Wrap, Mulaney
says that his favorite parts are the parts where he makes fun of himself, and
he's got that right. He is at his best
in that kind of self deprecating humor that gets the audience laughing at you
laughing at yourself. Whether he's talking about his bad driving, his inability
to deal with problems when his girlfriend is not around, or his childhood when
he was mistaken for an Asian, he is at the top of his game. He's not too shabby getting on others
either. He does a job on Ice T in a riff
on Law and Order: SVU that is downright hilarious. His bit on his lawyer parents' child rearing
style is a gem. At a total running time
of about fifty minutes, there's a lot of funny stuff on New in
Town.
The problem with reviewing
a comedy album is that you don't want to be a spoiler. You want to explain what's funny and what's
not, but you don't want to give everything away. Anyone who buys the album ought to have
something akin to a virgin experience.
Of course if you don't care some of his routine is available in the
usual places. All I can say is that I
found him hysterical at times; if you want to see for yourself, check out
Comedians.Jokes.com/John Mulaney.
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