Painfully unfunny
Someone made me watch this tonight, and it bothered me so much. So much I need to write about how much it bothered me.
So, why? First off, I do love stand-up. But there is hardly anything original here at all. Zero subtlety. Nearly every joke goes in the most obvious direction, and is shouted at you equally loudly and quickly. Very little cohesion. Just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
Even at his breakneck pace, I finished many of John's "jokes" in my head before he did.
It was occurring to me more and more as this went on, "this wouldn't be funny at all if he weren't saying it in that voice. There is no actual joke to be found here." I wish I could remember some of them, because it was so egregiously lazy, but I for the life of me cannot.
tl;dr: By-the-book comedy for noobs. Humor to me (and really, by definition) is supposed to have an element of surprise, or move in some unexpected direction. That happened all of about 3 times in this show.
Sorry if you really liked this. Different tastes and all. But as someone who deeply loves and appreciates comedy -- this was *beep* awful.
Thank you for reading, that is all.