The Gas! Gets Gassy! Maconemayerchiampapeeps

Steve Macone, man; this writer could go on for days and days about the fellow of humour. So much to write about. However the scene must get set for what could take hours regaling. The host of youth infested Allston's The Gas!, Boston comedy producer/comedian Rob Crean, kicked the show into gear with his intense pleasantness. His pleasantness turned to outrage as he went into his Boston favorite tea jokes. Found it nice to know that Rob's irritation about tea tax comes from this writer's place of employment, the Boston Common Coffee Company, which charges two dollars and an irrational three pennies extra for tea; sure to call any soul of New England to rise up in arms... or mic!  Rob-Rob got the crowd warm then the crowd burst w/ laughter when an out of place "Randy Newman" from the crowd answered Rob's quasi rhetorical question. Rob brought up charming Maria Chiampa, whose material roughly revolving around murder murdered. Her set went the full range of temp from chilly (asking, in her hostess-of-Sunday-Stand--up-at Cambridge's-ImprovBoston-show-tone, the cool kids in the back to come up only to bullshit responses) to very hot when she gave her absent, recently jailed :( sister a reality check by letting her know jail comes sparse with niceties one finds in a spa. A spa. Rob came on again and turned Randy Newman to a continuing reference. Andrew Mayer, with both adorable jokes that come sometimes with a dark tinge and seemingly contrasting tactile analyses, did very well as one could here the crowd repeat his punchlines often. Mayer made his way steadily through his set with experience and confidence to near the end where my favorite joke of the night suggested dinosaurs that discover their own fossils (presented as a web based fact by the comic) they would have an all too human reaction. The joke has a good take on human society or lack thereof through dino-relig. Ms. Kate Ghiloni came up next. She only allocated thee minutes of crowd work to herself for the set. Most of that time got eaten by a superstar wife that somehow got the show's attention by shouting she married the wrong person. Her husband who attended seemed flattered. Kate got herself out of the quicksand of drunken feelings by mentioning she started getting drunk again due to her feelings. She did her material on fantasy football which charmed the dudes. She does have above average sports knowledge, like her rag on the Bengals and how their real motivation comes from irresponsibility off-field. Sean Wilkinson, not a Bengal or father of ten, got the crowd as hot as Mayer did with material about his aesthetically unpleasing masturbation techniques and how his sex life could do plague like harm. Sounds funnier live, so go fuckin' see it! Go see Steve, too. He good.