[ATTENDED: October 6, 2021] Seaton Smith
I don’t go to see comedians that often. I knew in the back of my mind that there would be a warm up act, but it didn’t actually occur to me that there would be one.
The line was INSANE when we arrived. We were fifteen minute early and didn’t get in until just about 8 o’clock, but they delayed the start, thankfully.
This show gave you a secure bag to put your phone in so that you couldn’t use it during the show (that process was quite seamless, I have to say). But I hadn’t turned my phone off and was concerned that it might ring during the show. But while I fretted about that, the lights dimmed and they introduced the comedian whose name I didn’t hear.
This is the second comedian I’ve seen whose opening act was introduced quickly and unclearly who then never repeated his or her name during the set. It took more than a little work to discover he was Seaton Smith.
Smith started his set with jokes about growing up poor and black. They were quite funny, but it seems like Mulaney’s audience is pretty white so it seemed kind of unrelatable. And yet the jokes were really funny and the crowd was very responsive.
After a little while he started talking about politics.
He said he was all about bringing people together–so who did you vote for in the last election?
The jokes ere very funny. And they were not at all the former president’s expense. He joked that when Biden said the previous guy was the most racist president in history, Seaton commented that he didn’t own slaves. So that put’s him above at least twenty of them.
He joked that no Democrats were excited by Biden. We voted for him because we were responsible adults.
The punchline of most of this thread though was that he voted for Kayne–and how each piece of evidence he gave about the last election proved that Kayne was the right choice.
It was great stuff and a terrific warm up.
And even better is that unlike a concert, when the warm up act is done, he simply introduces the headliner who walks out and starts the act.
Turns out that Seaton Smith was on John Mulaney’s short lived TV show, Mulaney. I didn’t really like the show at the time. I’m curious if it would be worth watching now (Mulaney joked about the show during his act).
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