{"id":4258,"date":"2009-02-22T00:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T05:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2009-02-22T00:29:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T05:29:18","slug":"who-woulda-thunk-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4258","title":{"rendered":"Who Woulda Thunk It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the stuff of NARN legend; in our first year on the air, we (Chad and company) got an email from JB Doubtless – Chad’s younger brother and a charter member of the NARN during its first three months – saying that he’d seen this comic, a conservative <\/em>comic no less, that was pretty funny, and that he’d booked him on the show.\u00a0 For us.<\/p>\n

And it was atrocious<\/em>.\u00a0 Part of it was that the conservative comic talked more about politics than the funny during the interview – which was just not what we expected.\u00a0 Part of it is – and I say this having worked on the Don Vogel show, where comics were trooping through all the dang time – comics are hard to interview.\u00a0 It takes an unusual personality to work a room the way a comic does – and “unusual” all-too-frequently means “difficult for schlubs like us to relate to”.<\/p>\n

So the interview went down in history as just about the most challenging one we’ve ever had on the NARN.<\/p>\n

The comic, of course, was Brad Stine.\u00a0 Ed and I talked with him last week (we didn’t realize who he was when we first booked him) and it went a lot better.<\/p>\n

Just gotta say – Bun and I went to the show at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts earlier this evening.\u00a0 And he was really <\/em>good.<\/p>\n

Not conventional, naturally; Stine, who has a Dennis-Leary-style delivery (and, let’s be honest, look) with material that swerves between hilarious observational comedy about politics, society and religion, with some bits that sounded like they’d have been more at home in a particularly challenging Presbyterian sermon (and that’s a good thing; Presbyterians put more stock in engaging the congregations’ brains from the pulpit than any other denomination).<\/p>\n

But dang, it was funny.\u00a0 Any thought that Stine worked safe because he doesn’t work blue missed the point; he doesn’t work blue, but it was still edgy enough to keep me interested.<\/p>\n

Anyway – Brad Stine was a lot of fun.\u00a0 Check it out if you get a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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