Concord, NH — Local stand-up comedian Simon Reiss began his set at an open mic last Thursday, casually leaning against the mic-stand and offhandedly telling the crowd he’s “working on some new stuff”. According to multiple witnesses, he then proceeded to not do any “new stuff”.
Throughout the set, he would chuckle to himself and say, “sometimes it’s the first time I’m hearing it, too, folks” after lines he had already said in hundreds of others sets. At one point he said, “Haha sorry, I just came up with that on my way here,” after bombing with a joke about Panera Bread he’s been doing since the Bush administration.
“He opened with that Tinder joke that he’s been doing since at least 2014,” a friend of Reiss’ commented under the promise of anonymity. “He even started the Tinder joke by saying, ‘So, I’m single..’ even though he’s been in a committed relationship for 2 years.”
Audience members were stunned and horrified when Reiss, with seemingly no irony, asked the crowd, “Have you guys heard about this whole Bill Cosby thing?” Reiss’ joke about Bill Cosby from 2014 also involved an impression of Cosby that has been considered hacky since at least 1988.
After blatantly lying about how he’s “just testing out some new jokes” to innocent bar patrons who are good, decent Americans and didn’t deserve this, he posted on Facebook saying, “My new stuff killed! I’m really on a roll here lately.” It is something he had already posted dozens of times, but he was pretending he had never posted it before.
By Drew Landry.
The Bringer 