The Up Comedy Club is where the scene was at last Wednesday night, the second day of TBS’ Just for Laughs Festival. Geek humor alert – anything from Star Wars to Weezer was fair game for these nerdy comedians.
Hosted by tremendously humorous Pete Holmes, “The Nerd Show” is a super funny collection of geek stand-ups including Brent Weinbach, Dan Telfer, Hari Kondabolu, Mike Lawrence, Brian Posehn and even drop in T.J. Miller, who downed an entire Italian beef in one minute flat.
Each comedian brought their A game to the stage. Weinbach wondered why heterosexual guys are cool going to strip clubs together so that they could sit next to each other having boners. And, would they still be comfortable have boners next to each other if just sitting in a car? Kondabolu, who once worshipped Weezer, asked why the band still writes their lyrics geared to 14-year-olds now that they are in their 40s and took it further stating how he feels like the old creepy dude – at 27 – when attending a Weezer concert. “I feel like all the teenage girls are looking at me waiting for me to ask ‘Hey, do you want to grind to Weezer?’”
Brian Posehn went into deep geekiness on his Star Wars obsession and also explored the world of Weird Al Yankovic, wondering if he should only present his versions of the songs to his kid rather then the real artists’. That way when his son hears “Beat It” for the first time, he would be like, “Holy shit! That sounds just like “Eat It”.
“The Nerd Show” had comedians talking about Apple, Marvel comics, Mortal Combat, World of Warcraft and pretty much anything else geek related, including computers from the ‘90s that took a full weekend to download a 4MB file.
By the way, if you have yet visited Up Comedy Club at 233 W. North Avenue in Chicago, it’s a great place to see live stand up. Drinks and food are served throughout the show and the ambience screams late night fun.
