After the camera makes a point of cutting to Blue's perfectly pleasant looking wife in the audience, we get to watch him mercilessly mock her. The next significant chunk of Blue's act is dedicated to his wife and kids. From there he goes on to critique his own disheveled appearance and demonstrates that before anyone can say anything mean about him, he will say far worse things about himself. Besides being a springboard to attack his physical disability head on, this setup gives Blue license to make the bold claim of technically being an African American (a punchline that he revisits throughout the show with consistently hilarious results). He talks about being born with cerebral palsy under questionable medical conditions in Cameroon, South Africa. It's nice to see that his gutsy self-deprecation is still intact with his latest set: Sticky Change.īlue starts his performance before an adoring crowd at the Varsity Theatre in Minneapolis by taking us all the way back to the beginning. Blue has never been shy about his cerebral palsy which was a defining trait of his standup act back then. Josh Blue has been making audiences laugh for a while (especially on the college circuit) but he came to national prominence when he won the fourth season of Last Comic Standing in 2006, marking one of the few occasions on that show when America got it right.
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