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We went to see comedian Lewis Black a few months ago and I'm just now collecting a few thoughts about the night. We have had better seats in the past but the Paramount is a good venue for the show no matter where you end up. As long as I can see the stage. I hate when they use video screens at shows - your eye is inevitably drawn to a huge televised image (larger images and their slightest movement draw your attention - a fine biological adaptation for, say, avoiding a lumbering woolly mammoth ready to make you foot paste in his prehistoric perambulations, but not so great for concentrating on a modern day comedian ) and away from the actual subject you've paid to see. Something about spending money to watch TV during a live performance sticks in my craw. That's why I think cheap seats are almost always a bad deal, if you can afford it get up close, or just stay home and hope someone posts to youtube.

I digress. The show was great but I was really hoping Lewis would have some more current observations and commentary. Sure I listen to Wait Wait for my news, but I gotta get a heavy dose of Black cynicism to inoculate me to whatever asshattery the world turns out. Turns out he was on set for a recent movie project (imdb was no help in discovering which one) in somewhere remote like Utah or something, and hadn't caught up with the current news - so much of his material was stuff we had heard in previous years filtered though a few new bits - like a diatribe against golfers and the whole futility of the so called 'sport'. Something I think we can all get behind. Well except the two young guys behind me that got conspicuously quite during that bit. So the eve was not exactly like a best of bits routine but slight changes and pacing, like jazz improve if that's not too intellectual a stretch.