Went to the Improv on Melrose to see "Killer Valentine's Comedy" last night. I invited friends from Sherman Oaks to Venice to Culver City, but no one could make it, so I just took myself there. The show never really gained momentum (and made me appreciate the quite good stand-up scene in Austin), but there were some notable acts. Natasha Leggero, from MTV's "The 70's House," performed a funny, petulant routine, and the duo pretending to be a clueless Yuppie couple was brilliant. The headliner (unfortunately I've forgotten his name) was very entertaining with his anti-Sprint-store tirade and his riffs on driving in Los Angeles. It was also refreshing to see thirtysomething female comics onstage. The hostess did a short, relatable riff on being at an awkward dating age at 35, where she's stuck between dating older divorced men and men much younger in age.
Several of the comics seemed to have bit parts to their names, as in "Joe Schmoe, who you may know from his work at the Improv or his voiceovers on the Citibank commercials..."
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