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Trevor Wallace: Pterodactyl
A somewhat funny evening of standup is provided by an unknown commodity in a 2023 Prime Video special called Trevor Wallace: Pterodactyl.
As I was looking for a comedy special to watch, I pulled up the IMDB page for this special and discovered that an actor named Nick Swardsen was featured in it. Swardsen is a long standing member of the Adam Sandler rep company and that was enough reason to give this guy a shot. Swardsen appears in the pre-taped opening set in Wallace's dressing playing his very nervous stage manager. Wallace also plays about a dozen different characters briefly and garners few laughs for the effort.
When Wallace does finally get onstage live from Austin Texas, the David Spade look-alike spends a good 15-20 minutes sucking up to his audience talking about what a fantastic city Austin is, This is a problem I have always had with unknown comics. They love to gush to their audience about how wonderful their town is and how happy they are to be there and always spend the first fifteen minutes onstage praising the town where the venue is. That's fine for this night, but when the concert goes to video, nobody else really cares what this guy is talking about.
Wallace's pace onstage is initially exhausting, reminding me of a very young Howie Mandel when he started out in standup and I really didn't like the way he kept referring to the audience as "Dog", like one of those white guys who talks like he's black. It was about halfway through the concert before the guy got a laugh from this reviewer was when he started talking about how big his nose was. Which led into some humorous stuff about drugs, sex, and male birth control.
I was amused that he wrapped with a story about his dad giving him the birds and bees talk, right after introducing us to his parents in the audience. I think Wallace is a talent to watch but he's working a little too hard at being funny to actually be funny.
A somewhat funny evening of standup is provided by an unknown commodity in a 2023 Prime Video special called Trevor Wallace: Pterodactyl.
As I was looking for a comedy special to watch, I pulled up the IMDB page for this special and discovered that an actor named Nick Swardsen was featured in it. Swardsen is a long standing member of the Adam Sandler rep company and that was enough reason to give this guy a shot. Swardsen appears in the pre-taped opening set in Wallace's dressing playing his very nervous stage manager. Wallace also plays about a dozen different characters briefly and garners few laughs for the effort.
When Wallace does finally get onstage live from Austin Texas, the David Spade look-alike spends a good 15-20 minutes sucking up to his audience talking about what a fantastic city Austin is, This is a problem I have always had with unknown comics. They love to gush to their audience about how wonderful their town is and how happy they are to be there and always spend the first fifteen minutes onstage praising the town where the venue is. That's fine for this night, but when the concert goes to video, nobody else really cares what this guy is talking about.
Wallace's pace onstage is initially exhausting, reminding me of a very young Howie Mandel when he started out in standup and I really didn't like the way he kept referring to the audience as "Dog", like one of those white guys who talks like he's black. It was about halfway through the concert before the guy got a laugh from this reviewer was when he started talking about how big his nose was. Which led into some humorous stuff about drugs, sex, and male birth control.
I was amused that he wrapped with a story about his dad giving him the birds and bees talk, right after introducing us to his parents in the audience. I think Wallace is a talent to watch but he's working a little too hard at being funny to actually be funny.