Comedian Kevin Nealon tickled the crowd with his unique brand of humor yesterday, focusing mostly on himself, his life and how he deals with, survives and sometimes even manages to enjoy everyday life.
The former Saturday Night Live standout (1986-95), who currently stars on the HBO series Weeds, walked onto the stage wearing an arm sling. That was no joke. But when pressed for an explanation, he told the audience the injury resulted from a “tussle” he had with his landlord. “We worked it all out,” he assured the crowd. He then revealed he was hurt while playing basketball.
Nealon covered many of stand-up comics’ most popular topics—airport screening (“too bad there’s no such thing as a bra bomber, so then many passengers would have to remove them”); cell phone use (it’s part of his all-day, everyday multi-tasking talents), road rage (“I let people cut in front of me—I call that road love”), farting (“Why do people wearing earphones while running on the treadmill pass gas? We can hear them!”); and how he’d prefer to die (by shark attack, or maybe after being attacked by a chimpanzee). In doing so, he was able to deliver creative punch lines.
He weaved in commentary about New Orleans, asking why hurricanes are given such non-threatening names such as Faye. “If you really want to warn people about the pending danger, why not name them something like Hurricane MoFo,” he said.
As for the BP oil spill, he thinks the Gulf has reached the point where it’d be easier to remove all the water instead of all the oil.
In mocking Nealon’s own joke about reviewing adult movies for Playboy, attendee Jen Harley, Regional Manager, Associated, Dearborn, Mich., said, “He was funny. Then he was interesting. Then he was more interesting. Interesting still. Then he became REALLY interesting. Then it was over.”
Attendee Beth Finley, Training and Marketing Director, Berkshire Property Advisors, Greenville, S.C., said Nealon’s humor worked “because he talked about things that everyone can relate to.”
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