Unlike many comics, Los Angeles’s Brent Weinbach isn’t interested in endearing himself to an audience. On his latest album, the hysterical Mostly Live (ASpecialThing), he doesn’t bother to introduce himself, or ask the audience how they’re feeling, or engage in any sort of pleasantries whatsoever. Instead, he launches instantly into character, delivering a sprawling monologue in an indecipherable accent—it sort of sounds like a mix of Mexican and Middle Eastern, with a little New England frat boy—on the supposed dangers of performing oral sex on an unshaven woman. Finally, at the end of the bit, he addresses the audience directly, claiming he’d just performed “an almost exact re-creation of a video blog I saw on YouTube, and I wanted to share that with you so you’re all aware of what your children have access to.”
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