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10 FLAGPOLE.COM • OCTOBER 7,2009
WEINBACH
O ne of the crying shames of our culture is that anything not
easily digestible is dubbed "weird." San Francisco come
dian Brent Weinbach embraces the label, though, because
there's just no getting around it.
"I aim to not make it difficult for an audience to get me,"
says Weinbach. "It's really just silly, random humor and I think
that certain audience members try too hard to understand it
when really, it's a lot stupider than they think... I can only be
myself onstage, and I guess people might think that's weird. I
can't act more "normal" or do more "normal" comedy, because
I'd feel phony about that. So, being myself, I think people
aren't used to that and that can be a challenge sometimes. I
don't know, I guess weird is in the eye of the beholder."
When Weinbach does observational comedy, it's not so much
that he sees things his audience doesn't see, but he's quicker
to articulate. (His response after being told his pants are too
tight by a high school student? "Oh, yeah? Your pants are so
baggy it looks like you have a really big, curvy penis. Go to the
office.") Of course, the quoted line above is just part of a bit
he does, but he delivers with such a clear, flat style, that it's
difficult to tell whether he's reading a diary or making it up.
"I want my sets to be tight, so I try not to say anything
that isn't essential to the joke I want to make. But also... I'm
more interested in sounds and. visuals than I am in 'jokes,'"
he says. "As far as building a rapport with a crowd, I think
it's similar to 'Hey, how ya doin'/ because that sets a certain
tone and certain expectations. But starting the show with
something more deliberate and deadpan or abstract) that sets
a certain tone, too, and it sets an expectation of not knowing
what to expect."
Some of his material, especially from his newest album The
Night Shift, is immediately accessible and imminently quot
able. Bits such as "San Francisco Phone Call" and "The Russian
Alphabet," the latter in which he utilizes the entire English
alphabet in a Russian accent to form 26 ways to say "Get the
fuck off my house," are total ringers.
"Once... this woman was drunk and kept calling me rac
ist I finally lost control and called her some names... what
was bad was that I lost control. I think that's the worst thing
a comedian can do. I let the woman get to me." There's the
good, too, though. "There was this one time in Spokane... the
audience consisted of around 40 or so freshman and a lot of
them seemed to be religious... essentially, they seemed really
uptight and squeamish at the opening comedians. I did about
two minutes of material and received absolutely zero laughs.
But somehow, by improvising a few things, I started to get
them on board. Gradually, I won them over. That was amazing
to me and really gratifying to turn the show around like that."
Gordon Lamb
WHO: Brent Weinbach
WHERE: Flicker Theatre & Bar
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 9