Brain Bank

Best approaches stand-up with an irritable, dry fatigue, treating personal embarrassment as an inevitable consequence of existing in public. She treats everyday problems like cell phone tickets, drunk emails, and chronic lack of money not as quirky flaws, but as annoying administrative paperwork. She explains poor impulse control with the flat irritation of someone reading an overdue utility bill.

Recorded at the NerdMelt Showroom in Los Angeles and released in late 2016 by Comedy Dynamics, the set captures Best during her run in the city’s alternative comedy scene, shortly before she joined the writing room on truTV’s Those Who Can’t.

The back half drifts into strange animal encounters, including routines about urban possums and pet wolves.