Amo treated us to a night at Cobbs Comedy Club, to see British comic John Oliver.
I don't know how may people in the UK know John Oliver. I first saw him a couple years ago on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Amo separately introduced him to me through his Daily Bugle blog for The Times.
I know it's an easy comparison, in that they're both English comics with great story-telling skills, but Oliver's delivery and content is very much like that of "executive transvestite" Eddie Izzard.
Oliver's material on Wednesday night ranged from Bachman to Disneyland to the imminent loss of the American Empire, and despite flaying the American Dream had the audience captivated. Unlike many of Cobbs' regulars, he performed over an hour of bitingly original material that, aside from the aforementioned Izzard you'd be hard pressed to hear anywhere else.
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