Yesterday’s Keith and the Girl podcast featured special guest comedian Christian Finnegan. He has been on before and he is really quite funny. They were talking about the recent Dragon*Con convention where both Keith and Chemda (The Girl) attended for the very first time. They were talking about how funny it was to see all the nerds in attendance when Christian brought up Blizzcon. It’s a convention held by the software maker Blizzard for people that play their games, mainly the popular World of WarCraft.
Christian was hired to do stand up comedy for the people in attendance. He mentioned that Jay Mohr was the guest at the most recent Blizzcon and people heckled Mohr’s act. Some got angry that there weren’t any World of WarCraft centric jokes. Jay Mohr simply did his normal stand up act and some in attendance were not impressed. Christian said that when he did Blizzcon, he “wrote” new material for his act.
Did he write it or did he borrow it?
He said that he included a joke about the women in attendance at Blizzcon maybe thinking that they are better looking then they really are. He told the women in attendance that though they may be hot for Blizzcon, they probably were not that hot in the real world. The world outside of Blizzcon. Just because you are Blizzcon hot doesn’t mean you are regular hot. He said that it went over pretty good and I am sure it did.
It was a funny bit.
I thought it was funny when I heard Christian talk about it and I thought it was funny when I read it back in 2004 in The Onion. It was the basis of a hilarious The Onion story about a mildly semi-attractive woman that attends a Farscape convention and walks away mistakingly thinking she is one hot babe. She is one of the few women in attendance and gets a lot of attention from the horny nerds in attendance.
Does Christian Finnegan read The Onion? I think he does.
- Woman At Farscape Convention Has Dangerously Inflated Self-Image [The Onion]
- 574:The Shitbox MP3 (fast forward to the 14:30 mark)
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