Aziz Ansari (w/ Nick Kroll)
Friday, Jan. 23, 2009
Punch Line
Better than: "Rollerblading"
What better way to spend a Friday night than laughing until you're all teared up like a baby? I mean, yeah, it's great when you leave the Great American talking about some kick ass band really tightening up its live show. But you know you've had a memorable start to the weekend when, in reference to the night before, your date texts you, "Grab that giraffe by the neck, Randy" -- a punchline about fucking the Toys "R" Us mascot.
Said giraffe "fuck story" was just one of many lasting one-liners that came out during the Friday night performance by Aziz Ansari, one of my favorite Internet-generation comedians. The actor -- best known for his part in MTV's hilarious Human Giant series -- was in town as part of Sketchfest, San Francisco's annual comedy blowout that packs the city with two weeks straight of popular comic actors. And when I left the Punch Line at the end of the show, I was hard pressed to remember seeing another comedian whose material was so consistently, and often absurdly, funny.
