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Bam Bam

Bill Squire

Comedy Dynamics · 2022 · 44 min

Clean Midwestern club comedy anchored by family life and lapsed faith.

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Bill Squire builds his cleanest set around an odd milestone: Mormon accountability baptism at age eight, a point in childhood when the body barely trusts a kid with adult teeth, let alone eternal salvation. As an excommunicated former missionary, Squire treats his religious upbringing without rancor, poking at doctrine with the calm bewilderment of someone who walked away and never looked back.

Filmed in May 2021 at Hilarities 4th Street Theatre in Cleveland, the 44-minute set arrived while Squire was well established as an afternoon radio co-host on 100.7 WMMS’s The Alan Cox Show. He made a deliberate choice to deliver a family-friendly hour before pivoting back to darker, uncensored material later that year.

The jokes stick close to domestic friction: doomed trips through Home Depot, odd names for newborns, and the indignities of middle-aged health checks. He also takes issue with physics, arguing that science is mostly a buzzkill that demoted Pluto and refuses to let grown men bounce freely on trampolines.

Notable bits & set list

6 bits

  1. Origins of his childhood nickname 'Bam Bam'

    Explains how his mother nicknamed him after the Flintstones character because he destroyed everything as a child, noting he now mostly destroys relationships.

  2. Mormon baptisms and religious indoctrination

    Reflects on his Mormon background, ridiculing the pressure and absurdity of making eight-year-old children responsible for choosing baptism.

  3. His stepdaughter telling him she hates him

    Jokes about the hostility of stepkids after his stepdaughter told him she hated him simply for asking her to refill the Brita pitcher.

  4. Putting dog poop in a mailbox

    Playfully refuses to confirm or deny whether he actually deposited dog feces into someone's mailbox.

  5. Pandemic shopping at Home Depot

    Observational routine addressing the experience of shopping for home supplies during COVID-19.

  6. Staying healthy

    Crafted as an evergreen comedic perspective on health and wellness.

How it plays

Tone
Clean, clever, personal, and observational with subtle edge.
On stage
Conversational, highly personal, and punchline-focused while consciously working clean without losing comedic bite.
Pace
Streamlined cadence adapted to remove conversational profanity and filler pause words.
About
Parenting and stepkids, Childhood and parents, Mormonism and religious ceremonies, Pandemic life, Staying healthy, Science

Backstory

Filmed and recorded in May 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic at Hilarities under mask mandates and social distancing precautions; performed in his hometown in front of an audience that included his parents.

Details

Released
Taped
2021, Hilarities, Cleveland
Runtime
44 min
Where
Comedy Dynamics
Director
Jeremy Essig
Topics
After
Pure BS (2022)

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