When comedian Phil Hanley started out in his native Vancouver, he honed his crowd-work skills as a survival mechanism while playing to jaded musicians at bad open-mics. That worked until he performed for monolingual French-Canadians. Zut alors! The crowd work is just the gravy on the poutine for the funny Canuck, who has since relocated to the comedy incubator of New York's clubs. He also comes equipped with rapid-fire one-liners and wry tales, like the one about the time he got humiliated by an elderly man at the gym (that dude could lift).
Phil Hanley performs at 8 p.m. through Saturday, July 18, at the Punch Line Comedy Club, 444 Battery St., S.F. $16.50-$22.50; punchlinecomedyclub.com.
415-397-7573
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