Posehn brings personal life into jokes

Brian Posehn performed four packed shows at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club this weekend. He made comments about his nerdy look and life with his wife.

Local comedian Brad Wilhelm warmed up the crowd serving as emcee for Friday night and fellow local comedian Brian M. Frange controlled the microphone on Saturday.

Feature performer Jeremy Essig kept the laughs going with jokes about immigration, the economy and abortion.

But Essig started his routine commenting on the population of Bloomington.

“I’m not saying your town is shitty, but you do got a lot of hippies,” he said. He continued talking about his withdraws from buying cigarettes. 

“Going to buy cigarettes is the world’s greatest freak-show,” he said. “If you pay at the pump you are missing America.” He then went on to talk about immigration.

“Fair trade with Mexico, send us a million hard working people and you can have Mississippi,” he said. Essig’s best received joke was about his celebration of the Roe v. Wade  court case.

“Happy Birthday abortion,” he said. “I make a cake, not all the way through.”

Next on stage was headliner Brian Posehn. He started off informing the audience that talking to him will not lead to having sex with Sarah Silverman, who he has worked with on “The Sarah Silverman Program.”

“I do get asked that question, but if your sitting here thinking I’d like to get high in the parking lot with a dude from TV, I can make that happen,” he said.

Posehn said he is often stopped because people recognize him, but they don’t know what he is from. He added that once a man stopped him in a hotel in Chicago and asked him where he recognized him from. Posehn said he was a comedian and the man responded with “Thank God” and said the last time he asked that question, the famous person turned out to be the father of Ronald Goldman.

He then started to talk about his wife and “cuddle-time” with her.

“I ruin it,” he said. “I know my place, it’s 3 p.m. and Sasquatch doesn’t get sex when the sun is up.” He furthered the story by saying he then tried to do it himself.

Posehn went on talking about a time his wife, who he said looks like a cute skinny little cheerleader, passed gas before turning their car over to the valet.

“I smelled it and I asked my wife ‘hey, did you beef?’ She replied ‘yeah, but they’re just going to think its you.’”

Posehn also talked about what his size and appearance prevents him from doing.
“I can’t sneak up on people, I can’t go night digging and I can’t wear a mask and overalls,”  he said.