I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: March 2, 2025] Amy Annette

I didn’t know if Nish Kumar would have an opening act.  Since the show was starting at 9PM (!) on a Sunday night, I hoped he didn’t.

But then I remembered that comedy opening acts aren’t the same as concert opening acts.  They don’t stay on for all that long and there isn’t a 30 minute gap between performers.

So when Amy Annette was announced, I was ready to be entertained.  I found out after her set, once Nish came on, that Amy is his girlfriend of 13 years.  This made me happy for two reasons.  The first was that her set was only about 20 minutes, and it seemed crazy to travel all the way from the UK just to do 20 minutes.  And also, her material is so very different from Nish’s I wondered how he might pick someone to warm up that was doing completely unpolitical material.

So, the fact that they are dating was great!  They get to travel together and we all got some exposure to a comedian that we (or I, at least) didn’t know but now want to see again.

Amy’s humor is so very different from Nish’s.

She began with a really funny bit about bread. Yes, bread!  She had some good audience interactions to find out others’ bread choices.  And one of the respondents was a man named Paulie who would come back later.

Much of her routine is about the return of the 2000s (and why is it the worst part of the 2000s that are coming back–Nish actually made a good joke about this too).  She said she was going to sing a line of a song to see how many millennials were in the audience.  She asked Paulie if he could sing and he said he was a classically trained opera singer–perfect reaction from Amy.  So she sang two songs that I didn’t know and then the Papa Roach song “Last Resort” which everyone knows (although I didn’t know it was by them).

This led to a really funny but about radio edits of songs.

The original line:
Don’t give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
This is my last resort

The version she heard on the radio:
don’t give a darn if i hurt my feelings
This is my last resort

And then the hilarious radio friendly version of Wet Ass Pussy which is Wet and Gushy which everyone agreed was far worse.

She was an excellent warm up for Nish and I would definitely see her again if she toured here.