Todd Glass entertains with audience interaction, physical comedy

Stand-up comic Todd Glass made hundreds of people laugh with his quick wit, audience interaction and sheer personality at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club over the weekend.
“I really like that Todd Glass came out into the audience,” junior Gabrielle Reed said. “I feel like it’s kind of unexpected. It makes it more personal.”
At one point, his wandering even took him right out the exit door, though he soon returned.
Without a Friday or Saturday host, Glass himself introduced back-up feature performer Ben Moore, giving the standard request to turn off phones and not talk during the performances.
“Just sit back, relax and have fun,” he said, before bringing Moore to the stage.
The Bloomington local greeted his audience as “friends, Romans, country music lovers” before moving onto the topic of progress in politics.
“Barack Obama is the first American president ever to admit to having black children,” he said. “Yes we can, America!”
He stipulated, though, that society still has a long way to go. As an example, he related how his cousin asked how he should tell their family that he was gay.
“And I said, ‘In this family, probably a suicide note,’” Moore said.
At his mention of narrated pornography for the blind, a few audience members seemed a bit surprised.
“I’m going to take that shocked gasp as a ‘you want me to go on with the joke,’” he said.
At least one audience member was glad he did.
“At first, I didn’t like him, but then he won me over,” senior Haleigh Howe said.
When Glass returned to the stage, his first question was straight to the point.
“Do I look like Fred Flintstone and Mel Gibson had an ugly baby?” he asked the crowd, later adding John Goodman to the mix.
After discussing toupees, Glass moved onto a potentially touchier subject.
“You know, four out of five people suffer from diarrhea. That means one guy enjoys it,” he said, before switching topics. “At the hotel I’m staying at, there is a sign that says ‘No diving in the Jacuzzi.’ If the sign says not to do something, somebody did it.”
Glass also proved he wasn’t afraid to call out chatty audience members. At one point, he gestured to a section of empty seats.
“These people talked before the show started. I had the entire row thrown out,” he said, later adding to one woman in the front row, “Ma’am, I need you to break off into a private conversation with your husband – it helps me concentrate.”
Later, Glass discussed what people do when they’re alone in an elevator.
“You drop your pants, you sing and then you realize there’s security cameras,” he said.
Reed said she enjoyed the elements of socially awkward humor in the comedians’ performances.
“I think it’s hilarious because that’s how people really are,” she said.