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Lewis Black
I went to the show. I found it trite. It is a shame to see a comic be forced into his shtick to satisfy his fan base. Many of his fans were waiting for his points to crescendo with great anticipation. When he reached the "pulling his hair out" point of his, the crowd roared with delight. A musician is forced to play the standards of their catalog. We pay the high ticket price because we want to sign along with the songs that we have come to love. However, I find it interesting when a band will make the effort to change up a ditty during a live performance. Willie Nelson changes tempo and verses at all of his live performances. You have to be an icon to get away with freestyle, but it certainly makes for a memorable show. You got to love it when a band will have the balls to finish a show with alternative genre cover. Comics like Lewis Black are our modern day philosophers and story tellers. It would have been a shame if Steve Martin stopped at doing "A Wild and Crazy Guy". My generation is truly represented by Dave Chappell's show more so than his stand-up. Dave and Steve kept going. It would have been cool if Lewis Black came out and shook us up with some new ideas. Instead, he just did his usual thing and the East County Account sitting behind just me kept raving, "Oh, that's so true."— February 6, 2008 3:44 p.m.