I already have my opener for a hypothetical stand-up:
Hi there, I'm Cumquat, great to be joining you in {insert city} tonight.
You know, when I was 11 my parents divorced and I went to stay at my uncle's. Instead of taking care of me, he molested me. Nobody ever intervened, or called the police, or ever held him to account. It went on for years.
{brief pause}
So... who remembers Asteroids? you know? the video arcade game. For those too young, it was basically the identical game as Grand Theft Auto Five, but if everything in GTA; the gangsters, the roads and buildings, the realistic sunsets and radio stations and arent-we-clever satire, if all that was taken and made into a fucking rock and fired at you. Same game
{and so on..}
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 12:16,
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Not a bad opening. However if you could heavily imply that half the audience were in some way complicit purely because they have different biology to you it might work better.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 12:32,
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nah, that's her rookie comedy mistake, referencing it at all in the rest of the act
you can overdo the call-backs
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Oct 2021, 12:53,
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