Conversations

Ian Bagg does not bother delivering a prepared monologue. He treats the stage like an interrogation desk, firing quick questions to drag audience members into marital arguments, strange occupations, and accidental confessions. When someone in the front row admits to an awkward job, Bagg picks at the thread until the premise unravels.

Filmed at the Irvine Improv in California and released in 2018 by Comedy Dynamics, the set catches Bagg a few years after his top-five run on Last Comic Standing. By this point, the Canadian road comic had stripped away almost all traditional set structure in favor of pure friction with the room.

Nominal topics like online dating in your fifties, border security, and yoga pants surface along the way, though they mainly serve as springboards back into the tables closest to the microphone.