Missed The Window

Richard Sarvate approaches stage comedy with the methodical logic of someone who spent a decade writing software and never quite shook the habit. He treats daily humiliation as an engineering flaw, turning minor annoyances like meeting people with wet hands or facing a receding hairline into precise grievances. His best stretches work by taking mundane instructions too literally, whether he is reviewing the misleading promises of the elementary school D.A.R.E. program or arguing that oncologists should break bad news gently the way daters do. Taped at the Dry Bar Comedy club in Provo, Utah, the 25-minute set operates within the platform’s clean-comedy parameters, capturing Sarvate shortly after he left tech to co-found the San Francisco venue The Setup.