Last night, Kevin and I walked over to a Piccadilly Restaurant for a free comedy show I had discovered on TimeOut, Lewis Schaffer: Free Until Famous. Lewis Schaffer himself met us at the door and talked with us for a while before starting the show, and it would just get more intimate from there. There were only 7 of us in the "audience" (a boy and girl from England and two guys from France that were around Kevin's and my age, and an older guy also from England) and Lewis just sat around the table with us telling "what he calls jokes." He got awkward quick, with dirty and racist jokes (a lot about Kevin's Chinese/Puerto Rican heritage), and the 7 of us not wanting to laugh, but kind of having to since we were the only ones there. The most awkward part however was the end, as there wasn't any sort of finale, none of us was sure if we could leave, and the comedian was asking for money. Awkward turtle.
Lewis did actually have some pretty good jokes (like English people hate kids - nannies, boarding school, and pacifiers as evidence - but are scared of pedophiles, so they make the kids wear uniforms to disguise them as mini-business men) and he could be a good presenter, but there wasn't any show. I don't know if he'll ever be as famous as my personal favorite comedian Brian Reagan (who Lewis has supposedly worked with), and the show might be free for another 20 years, but one things for sure, it will keep being awkward.
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