John Mullaney: New In Town (2012) NR

My daughter plays a Japanese import game whose online community has a meme about John Mullaney, and apparently they have plagiarized 90% of this standup act in the process.  It's very difficult to review something on its entertainment merits when you have a seventeen year old shouting "Oh!  It's this one!" and quoting the entire thing, verbatim.

Despite this, and the cheesey 80's sitcom-style intro and outtro, this was a cute little standup routine. 
His whole demeanor comes off as wholesome and earnest... like Jimmy Stewart doing standup comedy.  This is not to say that it's 100% squeaky clean, there is a story about a prostate exam, after all, but it feels like it was squeaky clean.

I laughed out loud no less than sixteen times, and some of those were genuine belly-laugh quality.  I gave up on knitting about halfway through just because it was the tricky start to the ribbed cuff of a pair of mittens, and the dogs were being obnoxious, but I would imagine this would be fun to knit to.

Available on Netflix and as a disc on Amazon, if you like to laugh and find tales of New York interesting, I think you'll like this one.  Four out of five stars, and the only reason I dinged it one star is that the intro is just weird and makes you think you're settling in for ancient crappy comedy, when what you really get is pretty darn good.