Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents: Joe Zimmerman

Joe Zimmerman operates with a wide-eyed, gentle delivery that quietly masks a deeply weird perspective. He uses his stage time to walk the crowd through the specific mechanics of his own hypochondria and the strange economics of selling out a free show. His pitch for a Hollywood blockbuster based strictly on Andrew Jackson’s prolific dueling habit highlights a knack for taking historical absurdities and translating them through a calm, deliberate drawl.

Filmed at the Royale in Boston in March 2014, the 20-minute set caught Zimmerman during a rapid career ascent. He had recently relocated to New York, dropped his charting debut album “Smiling at Wolves,” and secured a spot on the eighth season of the reality competition “Last Comic Standing”.