[ATTENDED: November 9, 2025] Kurtis Conner
My daughter and I saw Kurtis Conner three years ago. I didn’t know him at al, but I knew my kids really liked him. I came away from the show laughing really hard and having a really strong respect for him as a comedian.
I still have not really watched any of his YouTube stuff (what I’ve seen I like, but it’s off my radar). But what really impressed me (and impressed me more this time) was how a YouTuber who effectively uses editing can do standup so well. He is (mostly) comfortable in front of the audience (in fairness, everyone there loves him and there is nary a heckler in sight), and he clearly feeds off of the laughter.
Although he is (quite a bit) younger than me, I found it really interesting that his childhood sounded kind of similar to mine–defects and all. Kurtis is a feminist and an ally, and proudly on both counts (which I found wonderful since my kids liked him so much). But he’s also able to look back on his younger self with dismay at the way he (and kids in general) behaved. It does make for good comedy too. Like he regretted that when he was ten, he and his friends used to use “gay” as an insult. Like he would be drawing and his friend would come up and he’d tell the guy to get away and stop being gay–and then go back to drawing the most detailed penis you’ve ever seen.
The show was called The Goodfellow Tour and it is named after where he grew up–on Goodfellow Street. A road that had a ton of kids in it. They used to play together all the time. He had a lengthy but very funny bit about a kid in their group whom they all convinced had super fast speed. They would do races all the time and the kid with super fast speed (who was in reality the slowest person in the world) would win. It went on all summer until the kid’s father found out.
This was all in aid of a running joke that he is a compulsive liar trying to fix that about himself. But somehow, he keeps lying–throughout the show, even, making the jokes even funnier. (more…)
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Whenever I think about comedians that I like, they’re usually British. Because I receive ads for comedy clubs, I feel like there are hundreds of American comedians and I don’t know any of them. So I forget that there are quite a few American comedians who I really like. Nick Offerman makes me laugh in anything he does and yet for some reason I have never really thought about going to his stand up show.
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