Ethan Marsh at The Gas! (Fa Real)

The Gas! at Great Scott sits on the corner of Harvard and Commonwealth Ave; the perfect place for a particular wayward individual to bum tobacco and beer money off of students and show his cock ring to young people. Luckily enough this has no indication of Ethan Marsh's show that took place inside! The show started off with a couple of Texan comics that mixed things up. The big bearded, thick glasses wearing Texan with a high, moderately effeminate voice used it to give his festival ready presence unto the biggest non-national headliner crowd this writer has seen in his fourth or fifth visit to the show. The crowd-pleasing Celtics shirt wearing follow-up comic looked like Mac from Sunny and had some hit-or-miss anti-jokes regarding racism and also some non-sequitor impressions. The Texan made a joke comics desire to make when he connected the forgotten mainstream event (popular at the time) to the present (where mentioning it exposes the desertion mainstream fans give their genre after the hit has gotten made). The joke connected Linkin Park and Jay-Z's collaboration to the present time. His set brought up local comics Ryan Douglass and Justin P. Drew, who did their routines to a nice reception. The show also featured a well-adjusted comic from that state NY who had a fluid set which happened to course in and out of a drunk heckler chick with a nice body. The guy nailed her pretty hard at the beginning, but lost a point when he compared her to Brittany Spears. The heckler successfully took made herself the center of attention when the host, Rob Crean, came on (as he politely catered to her). However, she treated this writer politely and even had a good point when she heckled a Domican comic for saying he "does not like being around drunk people". So, right on, Brittany, and yes, that comic did say he does not like being around drunks in a bar at a comedy show. The show did not feature any female comics so perhaps Brittany used her buzz to improperly represent her gender. She later got finished by the comic formally known as "The Shoe". Shane McHugh poetically summed it up when he bluntly mandated, "Nobody fuck this chick tonight." The laughed with agreement. Shane allowed the crowd into his life when he shared he does not have the sense of smell. He continued on with a solid performance that deprecated his position. Mixed in between the whole lead-up group of comics, a character from the Granite State (NH) had some things to say... about the no-good town of Allston, the necessity of wearing Big Dogs shirts, and an inevitable collapse into misery. The character came to life via Ethan Marsh - the man of the hour who celebrated his birthday in style with an encompassing set. It started with fresh energy of, as far as this BoCom scene regular knows, fresh material presented professionally. He hit several notes ranging from his like of super-dive bars, a personal fav Sleepy Time Tea, and using his suspicions as a hobby. The hobby served as a theme for the night. Make seeing stand-up comedy a hobby and see Ethan Marsh!