In the past few months I've become quite enamored with the work of A.D. Miles, a young comedian who I've been noticing in a lot of people's work that I've liked, for example he was in Role Models (the tall redhead who took a shit in the woods), and has been featured on Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! (My favorite show)... also he has a web series, a parody of soap operas which is available at http://www.mydamnchannel.com entitled "Horrible People." This shit is seriously funny and made me poop my pants numerous times.
Anyway, because of all this and because of the peripheral roles A.D. Miles often gets, I often notice him in the background of scenes and indicate to Janessa - "A.D. Miles...A.D. Miles," at which point we verify it is him (easy to do since he's tall, skinny, and redheaded), and happily move on..
So, last night me and the lady attended Sarah Silverman's standup show in LA at Club Nokia. It was a fine show, but way more important than the show is what happened in line PRIOR to the show. We were standing in the line waiting for the doors to open, and I was facing toward the back of the line while Janessa was facing me and the box office which was to the right of the line.
When holy shit. My heart froze, I could barely get words out, finally I muttered excitedly (and loudly) A...D...MILES...OMG ITS AD MILES!! (Literally I said "O-M-G" I'm such a nerd).
True story - it was totally him. He went to the box office, got tix and walked toward the back of the line. I was freaked out and honest-to-god starstruck. Janessa encouraged me to talk to him, but I didn't have the nerve. I think I was more nervous about him than I would have been if like Brad Pitt or someone had walked by. Seriously. The amazing part was, no one else in the line even noticed him. Janessa got a good look at him and confirmed that I was not hallucinating. Also, it makes sense because he lives in LA and, logically, would like Sarah Silverman. But anyway, I hate to make a fuss and embarass people. And I'm a pussy.
I eventually got the courage to walk to the back of the line to see if he was still there and congratulate him on his web series success. He wasn't. I assume he went in through some "celebrity-webseries-godman VIP" entrance. Anyway, easily the highlight of the night.
I mean honestly, wouldn't YOU be starstruck by this beautiful mug?Club NOKIA is pretty lame, you guys. The venue itself was OK, but we were stuck in the "lower balcony" which was weird because there was only one balcony. OK, we were in the lower part of it, I guess, but where do they draw the line? Row M? Just weird. Also we couldn't sit down for like 20 minutes because the curtain was in front of the balcony and they had to figure out how to get it up. Not real clear on why this was such an issue, especially given that there had been a 6:30pm show already that evening (we went to the 9:30pm). Anyways, once we sat down it was cool. Our pimping lower balcony seat was at least in the center of the row, and the place is pretty small so the view was good. Or so we thought.
Sarah had friends of her from her show open for her. The first one was Mark Cohen, a standup who plays her dad on the show. Hideous. Not funny, just obnxoius. Fine, he wasn't on long.
Brian Agee came on next. He was pretty funny. I like him. In case you don't know he's the OTHER huge gay guy on the show besides Brian. He showed us some video he supposedly submitted to Comedy Central to secure his place on Sarah's show. It might have been funny. I really don't know. We couldn't see shit.
The good people at Club Nokia decided to have video screens, three in fact, but not to put them high in the air (too logical) but rather close the ground. The effect was that they were NOT visible from our seats, but only to people on the floor or in the very front of our balcony (the lower-lower balcony??). Gay. We could see them when we stood up, but still...gay.
Brian P. was next and he was hilarious. Probably the funniest guy of the night. Check out his CD "Nerd Rage" - its also quite good.
Sarah was next and she was OK, but it was clear she was super distracted. For one thing she claimed to have a rash all over her body. I believe her...because it seemed real and because she was scratching a lot before she said anything and not at incredibly obvious points either. Another problem: she was convinced there were earthquakes happening and virtually no one knew wtf she was talking about.
As it turns out, the club is on level 3 of a big building, level 2 of which is inhabited by a place called "Lucky Strikes" - what appeared to us to be a combo bar/restaurant/bowling alley - where they were having their grand opening. So she was feeling the bowling through the stage, obviously. But it was still weird.
Her set was ok. Most if it had been integrated into episodes of her show, so it was weird she repeated it, since you have to figure 90% of her audience watches that show. She also performed songs, all of which had been in her show or movie. They were ok. The thing is, between her distractions and her already slow and strange pacing, it was kinda boring. Not terrible, just not super great.
It wasn't helped by the crowd, 75% of which seemed to be functionally retarded. I'm glad they are getting out without the aid of doctors, but I wish they wouldn't sit next to me. Goddamn. The guy on Janessa's right kept yelling out "WOOOO!" at entirely inappropriate moments. Which was pretty gay. To be honest though, even at appropriate moments, I fail to understand the "WOOOO!". Did you not get enough attention from your parents? I mean WTF... Steve says he sat at home on his couch and smoked weed a lot and got a "WOOOO!" the thinking obviously being (OMG I DO THAT TOOO WOOOOOOOO HE IS AWESOME!). WTF. Shit, even if I felt like a "WOO" inside, I'd never do it. I think people that do are supergay. I guess that's one big reason I married Janessa. No woo. No woo potential. Just not a crazy person. Big plus for me.
Then the stupid bitch on my left was yelling at the TOP OF HER LUNGS right into my ears constantly. Well, not constantly, the rest of the time she was LOUDLY explaining the jokes to her boyfriend who seemed befuddled by the whole thing. That itself was weird. There were numerous people at the show who seemed shocked at the scatelogical content of the show. WTF, even her emmy nominated song is full of profanity. What'd you expect? Anyway, loudly explaining the show, wooing wayyy too fucking loud, etc...I was about 5 minutes away from punching her out and then repeatedly beating her to death with my irritated junk.
Thank god the show ended then, and we went home.
Anyway, I <3 you A.D. Miles. I know you'll never read this, but I swear to god, the next time I randomly see you somewhere I will approach you and embarass the shit out of you. Provided I've had some alcohol, or can get some reasonably fast.
Baby Batter 4 Life, Dawg.
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