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Get Outta Here; Devil!

Dan Cummins

Prime Video · 2020 · 72 min

A podcast host targets conspiracy theorists and his own teenage mistakes.

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Dan Cummins spent his early career performing for standard club crowds, but his third hour-long special leans directly into the devoted audience built by his true-crime and history podcast, Timesuck. That built-in loyalty gave him the comfort to stretch on stage, taking weirder risks and being far more opinionated than he was in his early Comedy Central years.

Comedy Dynamics released the special in April 2020. The material targets modern conspiracy theories, from flat-earthers to the lizard illuminati, alongside the strange mechanics of selling your soul to Satan. He balances the social skepticism with highly specific, self-deprecating memories, including a bizarre teenage experiment involving a banana peel in a grocery store restroom.

The set list

5 bits

  1. Belief in the lizard illuminati and a flat earth

    Mocks and questions people who believe in extreme conspiracy theories

  2. Selling your soul to Satan

    Satirizes the notion that someone can make a deal with the devil

  3. Having sex with a banana peel in a grocery store bathroom

    Self-deprecating personal confession highlighting absurd and dark past behavior

  4. Hatred of strangers and his own kids

    Ventures into misanthropic and frustrated familial observations

  5. The closer (spoiler). Show it

    A pro-death campaign to improve the world closer

    Offers dark solutions of killing people to make the world better, wrapped in a wholesome message to conclude the show

How it plays

Tone
Dark, absurd, provocative, witty, and self-deprecating
On stage
Observational and absurdist comic combining dark, provocative introspection with self-deprecating storytelling
About
Conspiracy theories, Selling one's soul to Satan, Parenthood and children, Hatred of strangers, Dark solutions for improving the world, Embarrassing personal stories

What the critics said

Praised by critics for balancing dark, frustrated musings on modern culture and self-deprecation with a cohesive, unexpectedly wholesome concluding message

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: imdb.com, comedydynamics.com, vimeo.com, thetvdb.com, vanyaland.com, letterboxd.com, plotexplained.com, shorefire.com.

Backstory

Toured during a career surge fueled by the underdog success of his Timesuck podcast, which surpassed 20 million downloads in the prior year

Details

Released
Runtime
72 min
Where
Prime Video
Director
Brian Volk-Weiss
Honors
Vanyaland's 20 Favorite Comedy Specials of 2020
Topics
Before
Don’t Wake the Bear (2017)

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