There’s a theme Pat Burtscher touches on during the latter part of his confused ‘show’ and that theme is professionalism. While the scatter-brained, tangential style of stand-up is common, and deftly performed by...
Jesus, why do the people with the fish stickers on their cars drive so slowly?
These performers have terrible names for comedy, but luckily they know how to make an audience laugh with a solid hour of straight stand up.
Pat’s grasp of how to push the line of funny and bad taste is really strong and he pushes that line constantly throughout his set, taking something ‘everyday’ as far as he can toward being inappropriate, but holding back just enough that the audience isn’t uncomfortable about it.
Breaking Even is about the reality of working in comedy, the reality being that the pay sucks and half the time you end up putting in more money than you get out.
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