Comedy Central Presents: Peter Berman

Peter Berman centers his act on the specific chaos of a domestic life he barely controls. Operating at the bewildered frequency of a guy who just realized he has multiple children and a pack of dogs, Berman works through the mechanics of a marriage where the two parties seem to occupy completely different realities. He has an affinity for mundane absurdities, building jokes around his strange tendency to cheer for the umpire at sporting events and the questionable logic of staying in a terrible relationship just to avoid the hassle of leaving.

Filmed in New York City at the Hudson Theatre for the tenth season of Comedy Central Presents in 2006, the set captures a veteran road comic who got his start when Timothy Leary caught his act and invited him to the Hollywood Improv. By this point in his career, Berman was a working professional grinding out 200 dates a year and hosting morning radio. He channels that mileage into a casual delivery, closing the act by examining the duality of Las Vegas as simultaneously the greatest and worst city in America.