Boy Under The Cosmic Halo

Most comics releasing a crowd-work special jump straight to asking the front row what they do for a living, so it is a minor surprise when Butch Bradley spends the first eleven minutes of Boy Under The Cosmic Halo telling written stories about sinus congestion and driving high. That opening stretch covers his girlfriend’s home remedies involving hot peppers and steaming over purple Fabuloso, then shifts to a Las Vegas dispensary trip during lockdown. A free homemade brownie from an older woman behind the counter turns Bradley’s car into a boat in traffic, prompts a divine instruction to buy Mountain Dew, and ends with him losing a fight against automatic gas station doors.

Once he turns to the Las Vegas audience, the remaining forty-odd minutes run on pure club-comic suspicion. An Atlantic City native who treats every tourist’s job title like an alibi, Bradley zeroes in on a retirement planner from Tulsa selling Medicare and annuities, a front-row medical worker whose credentials he doubts, an Air Force munitions specialist, and a live timeshare pitch. The late stretch takes an odd detour when two audience members claim to have caught paranormal footage on video at the Clown Motel.

Directed by Kelsey Borlan and released in May 2026 through Laugh After Dark across YouTube, LADTV, and Prime Video, the 54-minute special follows Bradley’s 2021 hour From Las Vegas. Having spent the past several years headlining rooms on the Strip like The STRAT and Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club, Bradley works the crowd like a comic who deals with vacationers on a Tuesday night for a living.