[ATTENDED: March 28, 2026] John Miller Giltner
I was delighted when I saw that The Teeth has comedians open for them on the last time they played Johnny Brenda’s. They did the same this time. Although last night’s show opened with a magician (which sounds awesome), I got a kick out of John Miller Giltner.
They are a young comedian (meaning he uses a bunch of young person slang) and they used a powerpoint presentation (which was really funny). It opened with a slide that said Comedy set for The Teeth. Which is pretty spot on.
The main point of their comedy was about how they had a bed with no frame (it’s amazing how much material you can get out of that). This included a phot of said bed and a lengthy story about the person he was dating’s reaction to the lack of bed frame.
But it started off funny when John said that in order to get through this set they were going to need to borrow someone’s vape. A woman nicely obliged. If they didn’t have the vape it would induce a panic attack for sure (the panic attack graphics on the powerpoint were hilarious).
An unintentionally funny part came when they clicked the wrong button and reset the whole PowerPoint.
There was a funny part about being nonbinary and the way his dad was supported but said the worst things.
The end of the set featured a long call with Amazon help. He called up to say that he had given his then girlfriend a video game controller and she broke up with him and he wondered if he could get some kind of rebate since she broke up with him. The woman on the other end of the call was confused but polite and ultimately sweet. It was a funny bit of reality in a wild set.
I do rather like the idea of a comedian opening for a rock band and think more bands should consider it.
Here’s an article about another of Giltener’s performances. I think our night was maybe a variant of this but cut much shorter.
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