Happy Easter + Stellar Comedy Show w/ Ryan Long
Happy Easter, everyone! Hope you’re having a great long weekend with family & friends. I am grateful for maintaining a steady audience here on Substack that allows me to share content directly to readers without needing a constrained publication to filter it through.
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Had to share this: I was just at a stellar comedy show last night with the hilarious comic Ryan Long (thanks for the tickets!) in Vancouver. I discovered Ryan in 2020 as many of his did when his political comedy sketches (like “When Wokes and Racists Agree”) started going viral.
Ryan’s unique gift in the comedy space is he is very politically savvy and well-read. It is rare you will hear classic economist Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of a Nations” at a comedy show while somehow laughing (instead of sleeping in AP History class - sorry Mr. Armstrong!).
Throughout his set, Ryan had some outrageously hilarious bits exposing striking gender differences, religious ideologies, feminism, radical gender ideology, abortion & Left vs Right media. He has a knack for spotting humorous incongruities in core parts of human life that one has never thought of and now won’t forget.
I remember one hysterical bit about doing naughty things while listening to Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life (wtf?) that had the whole audience crying in laughter.
Afterwards, we had fun chatting about current events surrounding Iran, Israel, the U.S, the rise of conspiracies in the podcast space, and living & breathing in the NYC comedy scene with fan-favourite comics like Mark Normand, Andrew Schulz, & Kurt Metzger.
Thanks Ryan for the great experience!
Watch his last comedy special: