What are you lookin at?

Imagine booking Rage Against The Machine for a Sweet Sixteen party.
Imagine booking Al Sharpton for a Knights of Columbus dinner in Nebraska.
Now, imagine booking DARREN FROST to do a country club banquet room.

I'm just saying, some things aren't meant to be...

Let's be honest. Darren doesn't want to tiptoe around the edges of a self-satisfied group of country club members. Darren wants to smash a grapefruit in their faces and tell them how fucked everything is... Darren wants to get laughs that are deep and uncontrolled--and he's used to getting them by going wherever the fuck he wants to go to get them... I can see he's chomping at the bit and that frustration (added to others--as I get the sense through Darren's comedic perspective that MANY things frustrate him) began to show through tonight.

Darren's been frustrated because David, the host, would call attention to Darren's being Canadian. David did this both nights. Darren didn't ask him to do that...didn't want him to do that...and it bothered him. And then, when it became clear that after a good start, this audience was going to clench up...and simply wasn't going to give him the slack necessary to do the material that would be cathartic for him to do...it was pretty much over.

At one point, Darren had to remind himself, out loud, "Do happy jokes, Darren." The thought must have appalled him, because Darren--vocalizing his interior monologue--answered himself by saying to the audience "I'm freaking out...I don't fucking care."

Darren, trying his best to salvage what he can from the situation, after selling his "being a Blockbuster greeter on the busiest day of the year made me sound like a dolphin on crack" bit with gusto...and not getting the reaction he wanted, reminded the audience "Clap, motherfuckers...THAT was a DOLPHIN."

Dolphin or not, Darren--frustrated by the process and the circumstances...and knowing that he's talented enough to be be doing better in this competition and that's weighed against the investment he's made to be part of it--did not get an encore point tonight.