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Watch these standup comics (try to) tell jokes in a mosh pit

by Jeremy Mersereau

It’s already hard enough to conquer the fear of public speaking, failure and negative audience feedback (often in physical form, like punches), but what if fledgling standup comics had to do their sets while in the middle of a Skeletonwitch mosh pit instead of dingy basement bars?

Leave it to heavy metal talk show Two Minutes to Late Night and (to my knowledge) the only host in corpse-paint, GWARsenio Hall, to put some comedians to that test at Brooklyn bar Saint Vitus:

Hmm…well, I liked the sex robot joke, and also the unlikely fact that no one got their teeth smashed in by Newton’s second law suddenly acting on a microphone. One thing you need to be successful as a standup is nerves of steel (also, funny jokes, but those you can develop as you go), and these comedians just proved they’ve got those, at least.

[H/T Metal Sucks]