Anti Animal Vegan

Collin Moulton’s argument against the moral superiority of veganism is simple: giving up meat does not mean you like animals, it just turns them into your direct competition. If you rely entirely on your garden for food, a rabbit eyeing your carrots is an enemy combatant, and squirrels need to be interrogated to find out when the deer show up.

Taped at VidAngel Studios in Provo, Utah for Dry Bar Comedy and released on demand in 2019, the set works entirely within club-clean parameters without feeling sanitized. Moulton was a fifteen-year road veteran by that point, having previously recorded a half-hour for Showtime and built a following on satellite radio as an animated chronicler of domestic misadventure.

The centerpiece of the performance is a catastrophic RV vacation to Santa Barbara. Distracted by an awkward encounter with a day-drunk Simon Cowell walking small dogs, Moulton accidentally pulls his vehicle’s blackwater drain valve instead of the graywater release in an open parking lot. The resulting panic involves a Target shopping bag, shouting kids hanging out the RV window, and Cowell offering a polite parting word as Moulton scoops waste off the blacktop. Other bits cover odd crossbred pets, including a dachshund-retriever mix that slides along the floor like a hovercraft, and an aging father who yells back at television commercials.