In addition to being a record store, a bar, and host to Big Terrific, Soundfix Lounge (is there anything they don’t do?) they also host a myriad of other events. Specifically several other free comedy nights. After months of saying I was going to check another night out, I finally got a chance to do so this week. Wednesday night actually hosts two different shows, but unfortunately (due to the possibility of our driver dying of alcohol poisoning…sort of) I only was able to stay for the first show, called Comedy Free Williamsburg. This show was quite different that what I’m normally used to from Soundfix, in that it featured no media whatsoever, and also a sketch group was also thrown in the mix. I was told the week before that this show featured an open bar, but sadly it was a lie. Well, it used to have an open bar supposedly, so I guess just an un-truth. The host is John Knefel.
I found the first act quite funny, and I know his name is Rob, but I wasn’t quick enough to get his last name down, which is unfortunate because he was quite funny. I know he has performed in the Marijuana-loges (if you know his name please leave it in the comment section). He had a certain approach that made ordinarily not funny things absolutely hysterical, like the death of his father. Also I appreciated that he was wearing a denim shirt. Then came, Mike Dobbins, had a very interesting style to his act. It really seemed like he didn’t give a fuck, but not in a lazy way, more in the sense that he knew he was funny regardless whether or not the audience agreed. I found some of his jokes to be a little over my head while others were laugh-out-loud funny.
The next act was like nothing I had ever seenup close before, the sketch group, Murder Face. They performed about three sketches that really got the audience going. Their show also involved a lot of shirtless, hairy, man-boob possessing men, which make it pretty tough to go wrong. Their voices boomed across the room and overpowered everyone’s attention. Their sketches were clever. 
Following Murder Face, was a very attractive woman, Tracie Jayne, which I feel is somewhat rare for really funny women, but I’m down with it. Tracie talked at length about her jobs ranging from thong-wearing shot girl at a bar to serving in the United States military. All of her jokes were sharp, clever and highly amusing. The headliner, who didn’t realize he was headlining until Knefel announced it, was Joe Devito. He had the crowd in stitches from the start by talking about smoking weed and lots of it. My personal favorite part of his performance (even though the whole thing was laugh-
out-loud fantastic) was when he discussed one of my top 10 favorite commercials: the ShamWow. His jokes basically described the exact reason why, not only, do I love the commercial, but also why I think its absolutely ridiculous (even though I want to buy it.)
All in all, it was a good show, but I’m not sure if it’s really for me. Next time I’m going to try to catch the later show, ‘Totally J/K with Joe and Noah’ because it seems like it would match my sense of humor a little better. Although I would still recommend checking out this show because I’m pretty sure the acts change each week and it’s still a really fun time.
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