After A Certain Age They Shouldn't Ask For ID

Getting carded at a liquor store when you are gray-haired and clearly decades past the legal limit is not a compliment; it is an administrative insult. Tony Daro builds his set around these small, highly relatable irritations of middle age, particularly the parenting milestones that feel less like victories and more like financial setbacks. His primary target is the modern cycle of higher education, specifically paying for an expensive college degree only to have his son move right back into his old bedroom with a brand-new philosophy degree and absolutely no job prospects.

The set was filmed at the Dry Bar Comedy venue in Provo, Utah, and released in late 2023. By the time Daro taped this half-hour show, he was a long-established fixture of the New York stand-up scene and a regular at the Comedy Cellar. Though he might be less of a household name to casual comedy fans, he spent decades writing behind the scenes for giants of late-night television, earning three Writers Guild Awards and an Emmy nomination for Saturday Night Live.

He keeps the material strictly clean, leaning on structured setups to describe the absurdity of modern parenting. One of his strongest stretches compares sending a child to college to a high-stakes casino gamble, followed by a dry lament about toddlers who use laptop computers better than their grandparents.