From Away
YouTube · 2025
A Maine transplant works through toddlers, sobriety, and presidential laziness.
Released , on YouTube.
Matt Dundas quit smoking pot after an afternoon so paranoid he carried the newspaper inside with his teeth and wondered if he had turned into the family dog. That oddball domestic realism carries the set, especially when he sifts through the daily friction of being a stay-at-home dad whose toddler just discovered profanity.
Filmed in October 2024 at the Great Falls Comedy Club in Auburn, Maine, the hour captures Dundas settling into local life after years of doing stand-up around Washington, D.C. The title comes from the regional tag for anyone born beyond state lines, a designation Dundas embraces as he compares human babies unfavorably to baby animals and recounts failing to pass as a true Mainer.
When he wanders into national politics, he avoids standard cable-news talking points. Instead, he treats Donald Trump primarily as an unmotivated employee who avoided work, paired with a stubborn defense of Jimmy Carter.
Notable bits & set list
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Being classified as 'from away' after buying a house in Maine
Riffs on how long-term residents refuse to consider transplants or even their young children true Mainers unless their ancestral lineage dates back generations.
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Honking aggressively at a funeral procession in Washington, D.C.
Details his road rage before moving to Maine, unapologetically leaning on his horn and arguing that arriving a minute later will not change the fact that the person is dead.
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Endorsing Jimmy Carter for the 2024 presidential election
Proposes voting for the 100-year-old former president in hospice and swapping his hospice bed with Joe Biden in the White House to avoid election strife.
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Hitting rock bottom with weed
Contrasts the lack of emotional support from friends and family for quitting weed versus quitting chewing gum, citing watching the same baseball game two days in a row without realizing it.
How it plays
- About
- moving to Maine and being considered 'from away', parenting and raising young children, driving habits in Boston, D.C., and Maine, politics and the 2024 presidential election, quitting marijuana and substances
Backstory
Filmed in October 2024, one month prior to the 2024 presidential election, following Dundas's relocation from Washington, D.C. to Maine with his family.
Details
- Released
- Taped
- 2024, Great Falls Comedy Club, Auburn
- Where
- YouTube
- Topics
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