Crowd Work.

I really enjoyed this special and for the most part I like Anthony Jeselnik as a comic. However, his attempts at crowd work in this special were incredibly weak. Most comics do crowd work to actually engage the audience and show that they can think on their feet. They ask leading questions, but still improv jokes that could not possibly be staged. Jimmy Carr is the master of this. Not Jeselnik though. He asks audience members questions and then completely ignores their answers. The questions are just a set up to his next premise. For example, he asked a girl in the front row where she was from. "Santa Clara." And then what she does. "I win things on the radio." After a half-hearded one-liner he immediately moves on. "Have you ever been walking through the woods and seen a body?" I mean, the bit was kind of funny, but it was pretty transparent that he wasn't interested in actually doing crowd work. It was pretty lazy. Would have been better if he just hadn't done it at all.




"We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every *beep* there is an American trying to get out"