What can you say about the inimitable Steven Wright. The guy put in a stellar performance.

His support act Akmal Saleh desperately needs some new material. We saw his show the week before and he basically regurgitated the whole thing and not in a ‘it’s funny a second time!’ way but in a cringe with disgust as his jokes get more and more irrelevant with repeat performance.

Back to the main man. He was on stage for what felt like two hours. You could tell when he started ad libbed by a change in story telling tempo, but for the most part he was ‘the man’, pulling out king one liners like ‘the earth is bipolar’ and ‘I am going to get an MRI done to see if I am claustrophobic’ in his own dead pan way. He picked up the guitar to keep it interesting every now and them.

There was elements of Hunter S Thompson in the performance as he prattles on about ‘fear and loathing in . . .’ style gags. One such example taking LSD in a softball match: a plane crashes on the field and he’s trying to catch it in his mitt!

This gig was about $68 a ticket but everything was top notch. One’s things for certain who would’ve known anyone with a Masters in psychology, and a penchant for drug induced lateral thinking could be so funny. Like most of his skit subjects, he had me in tears!