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Honor Thy Wife

Jeff Allen

Comedy Dynamics · 2020 · 32 min

Clean, exasperated stand-up about aging, kale chips, and long marriage.

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Jeff Allen's first special since I Can Laugh About It Now (2019). Released , on Comedy Dynamics.

Jeff Allen treats a four-decade marriage less like a romantic partnership and more like a permanent truce where one side surrendered long ago. His routine works because he never bothers pretending he has authority in his own household. The centerpiece of the half-hour is the futility of trying to lie to your spouse: by sixty, you lack the short-term memory to keep a cover story straight, and she has spent thirty years cataloging your tells.

Filmed at the Dry Bar Comedy club in Provo, Utah, and released in March 2020, the 31-minute set arrived during a late-career surge for Allen. After decades working clean comedy tours and regional clubs, viral social clips unexpectedly turned the road veteran into one of the platform’s central draws.

The back half focuses on physical decline and health fads. Allen recounts choking down kale chips on a miserable keto diet, undergoing an agonizing body wax, and trying to survive the erratic temperature swings of his wife’s hot flashes.

Notable bits & set list

6 bits

  1. Jeff's 26-year-old son moving back home to acclimate to civilian life after six years in the 101st Airborne.

    Detailing how his son played video games in the basement for 19 months, threatened him with a Popsicle stick, and prompted Jeff and his wife to hide brownies in their nightstand.

  2. Buying a Select Comfort dual-sided adjustable number bed.

    Contrasting his marble-slab setting of 100 with his wife's setting of 2, which wraps around her like a flour tortilla fajita.

  3. Maintaining romance after 32 years of marriage.

    Joking that intimacy is reserved for leap year while wearing flannel and hunting socks, and describing his wife passing out at 9:15 PM watching Law and Order reruns.

  4. His wife's dark, twisted sense of humor.

    Recalling a tender moment where his wife stroked and hugged him from behind his recliner, only for him to discover she had drawn a smiley face on his bald spot with a Sharpie.

  5. His father's wedding day marital advice.

    Explaining the binary choice between wanting to be right or wanting to be happy, admitting he hasn't been right in 12 years.

  6. Gripes about modern fitness and health trends at 60 years old.

    Critiquing healthy snacks like kale chips and organic fruit roll-ups.

How it plays

About
marriage and long-term relationships, aging, fitness and healthy eating at 60, parenting adult children

Backstory

Filmed for the Dry Bar Comedy series produced with Angel Studios and distributed via Comedy Dynamics.

Details

Released
Runtime
32 min
Where
Comedy Dynamics
Director
Kelsie Cummings
Topics
Before
I Can Laugh About It Now (2019)

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