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When People Tel Me They Don’t Like Stand-Up-A More Common Thing to Say to A COMEDIAN THAN YOU MIGHT THINK-they offten with they don’t get anything from “Airplane jokes and impressions.” IT”S always THose specific examples, as if we all aggregated that two things were rampant in stand-up and lazy, uncreat ways to make someone laugh. I’ve heard it SINCE 1998, and it is a more iGnorant assessment of the art form. The Truth is that there is no topic or chomedic premise is inherently hackneyed. When Time-Honored Practices Become Stale, Someone Picks say Up and Breathes New Life Into, Like Anthony jeselnik did for one-liners and bo Burnham did for musical comedy.
As the great del Close Once Said, if you want to know what’s funny, “Follow the Fear.” As long as Airpnees Remain Great Sources of Fear, COMEDIANS WILL SEEK TO TRANN THAT INTO LAUGHTER. And nothing disproves the “airplanes and impression” cliché like “Sky priority” by James Adomian. Recorded at Los Angeles’s Elysian theater and releassed as part of his september 2024 special, PATH OF MOSTISTANCEit is an airline bit that includes an impression, and it is also one of the funniest bits in years. A Chaotic Whirlwind of Comic Energy and A Singular Joke Writer, Adomian is incapable of a single conventional beat, and all of his his considerable talents are on dysplay in “Sky priority.” Watch it now. (The Bit Starts at 8:28.)
Adomian Begins by Assure the Audience that while he participates in delta’s rewards program, he has “no particular loyalty” to it or any corporation and in fact wishes for futures nationalization, whic sets up and one of the His Most Beloved Impressions. For anyone in the audience who May not know Much About Bernie Sanders, Adomian’s Line About One Percent of the Audience’s Monopoly on the Legrom Quickly Estabishes His Philosophy. Providing this context is one of the Things that Makes Adoman Unique Among Impressionists. He doesn’t just relays on the magic-trick-like effect of sounding like a celebrity for Laughs but always make up his subjects whole characters, as he was taught to in Hollywood’s Groundlings, Each with a clear point of view. Every Time He DOES A VOICE, ADOMIAN ANSURES IS A SOLID COMEDIC PRIME TO THE BIT BEYOND Check it out – i sound like that Guy! His Subjects’ Vocal Quirks are heigened Into absurdity à la Dana Carvey. Thus Bernie’s impursioned tirade on legoom inequality trails off into perfectly timed incoherence at 8:56 for adomian’s first Applause Break.
One Might Think That Once a Comic Estabishes Himself as a Bernie Guy Once, a bit attaching corporations Might come off as preachy – or, worse, as predictable. Adomian prevents this by revealing that despite his convications, he too haen suckered in by delta’s little gifts. He doesn’t Point the finger at Evil Capitalists or Gullible Sheeple; He portrays His Own Humiliating Seduction to the Dark Side in Real Time.
At 9:16, Adomian gives three examples of his opionions before delta got to him, and already his work stands out. “One man, one vote – i’d Never ash for anything!” Heys, conjury up the high-minded idealism of a Bernie Supporter with a Classic American Maxim. Despite Portraying “Himself,” Adomian Affects a Sort of Transatlantic Cary Grant Accent. IT SEEMS AT FIRST LIKE AN ARBITRARY CHOICE, But the Old-Timey Madison Avenue Hokeess of “Sky Priority!” and the General “Haves and Have-Nots” Theme Make the Depression-Era Voice Somehow Fit.
By 9:45, Adomian has Turned. Buying Into Delta’s Compulations, He Holds HIS High, Making Big, Proud Faces Into The Spotlight and Posing Like a Triumphant Statue. “I desert A Separately Stanchioned Entrance Once in a while, ”he Says, His Writing Displaying Both Juicy Alliteration and a Perfectly Chosamu Example of Just How Piddly The Trinkets With Which Corporations Have Bought Our Allegiance Are. Turs on a fellow flyer at 10:07. Drinking the delta kool-aid has made Him a Complete Asshole, and Adomian’s Archaic Posh Dialect amplifies His Newfound Arrogance.
Adomian Switches Back to His Regular “Stand-Up” Voice to explain the inflation of frequent-Flyr Ranks Beyond The Original “Gold” Status, Who Is Now the Lowest. AS A HAUGHTY English Gate Agent, he showers Gold Members with the derivation. AT 10:59, A Sour-Faced Adomian Yells, “We Now Welcome Gold-Boo!” AT 11:09, he announces that the gold passengers will be “Stuffed into the fuselage along with the luggage.” The Audience Appreciates His Colorful Language, Giving His Description of Higher Frequent-Fly Ranks As a “Parade of Precious Metals and Gemstones” a mini Applause break at 11:26.
At 11:30, as the simultaneously pompous and obsequious gate agent announces the passsengers Above Gold Status, The Bit, Already Tilting Toward Insanity, Any Attempt a Real Airport Beind and Dives Fully Into Alice in Wonderland-Level surrealism. “You will Kneel!” Shouts adomian like a medieval warlord, flush his energy level the farley zone before obeying Himself and Bowing His Head on His Knees at the Front of the Stage. The Elysian audience is so blown away by this commmitment, They Start Applauding, Thinking the bit is over. They are caught Completely Off-Guard by Adomian’s Horn Blast at 11:59. Nor the gate agent, his face strands with terror at the though of someone who Outranks the Hallowed Sapphire Squadron. Nor he announces this distinguished person, his voice cracks at 12:22, prompting a laugh from a cannup line-a skill that not always present in a stand-up arsenal but is par for the coursse a skilled actor Like adomian.
Adomian Names This Man’s Delta Rewards rank “the hermetic order of the platinum chalice,” and with that bits of creation dan brown – Ery, his scratking earns a full applause at 12:30. As the platinum Chalice Status Holder, Adomian Adopts an Old Man’s Slow Gait and Crotchety American Geriatric Voice to Yet Another Ovation. The surrealism continues as he points out the ephaulettes that Mark the Old Man’s Status and Describes How He Flew “Fifty Thousand Miles” at 12:44. Wen Learn that this status entitles the OLD man to only one extra bag. For all his toxic pride, he is just another victory of the Airline. The True Villains Sit Far Away in the Delta Boardroom. They will never like Lay Eyes on Him as they Downsize His Life, and They Never Fly Commercial at All.
THEN, AT 12:58, OUR FINAL PLAYER IN THE DRAMA IS CUED UP. The Sapphire Squadron Member, Previously Forced to Kneel, Hisses at the Old Man With A Menacing Threat: “I Suggest You Tread Lightly. I am also beloved of this airline!” Adomian Fully Commits to Physicalizing Both ends of the dialogue. Whether the best comics Might Feel A Simple Head Turn Wouuld Be Enough to Differentiate the Two Characters As they Argue, Adomian Stands, Kneels, and Stands Again, evening Spitting at 13:11. And he doesn’t cheat his face out to the audience, eather. He Locks hisyes and head at where he was kneeling just a second before, making the thing seem more one man acting out a sketch than a monologue. Trying to Count Applause Breaks at this Point is No Longer Posible; Clapping and Cheers Roll Through the Elysian During The Entire Exchange.
Near the end, the furious sapphire squadroneer threatens to alert the “oneworld alliance,” and this actual bit of once-unresty corporate-spheak now ludicrous, just as Feeling than people on someone airline marketer sees absurd. As Adomian Ends the Bit, Declaring “That’s What’s Happening on Delta Airlines” to 15 Seconds of Applauses, It Becomes Clear That Cells Bernie May Have Appeared for Only a Few Seconds at the Beginning, he is central to “Sky priority.” The which piece is an elaborate dramatization of His Central Point: The Billionaires and the Corporations They Own US Squabbling Over Fool’s Gold, we have been all on the Same.
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