And How Did That Make You Feel?

Dave Lester’s central fantasy is surprisingly modest: he wants to know what it feels like to be flabbergasted. Not startled or mildly annoyed, but possessed by the specific outrage of a wealthy patriarch near Bryant Park who gets told no on a Wednesday afternoon and threatens a beheading over lunch. He watches white men scream at armed police officers with the confidence of someone scolding a relative, marveling at an entitlement so absolute it functions like a superpower.

Filmed at the Westside Comedy Club in Manhattan and released by Comedy Dynamics in 2023, the hour marked Lester’s streaming debut after more than two decades working New York rooms.

The rest of the set stays close to personal friction. He talks through life as a divorced father, the physical indignity of middle-of-the-night romance, and the mundane negotiations that define domestic life.