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The Matt Goldich Guarantee

Matt Goldich

Comedy Dynamics · Album · 2017 · 46 min

A dry, joke-first stand-up album about early middle-age defeats.

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Matt Goldich specializes in a very specific flavor of defeat. He leans hard into the indignities of early middle age, capturing the exact moment when a person realizes they are neither cool enough to do hard drugs nor smooth enough to translate their wife’s bedroom dirty talk. He does not yell or pace; instead, he delivers his self-deprecating observations with the weary precision of a man who knows exactly where his life went slightly off course.\n\nRecorded live at The Stand in New York City, the set catches the television writer at a reflective point in his career. At the time of its October 2017 release by Comedy Dynamics, Goldich was already a multi-Emmy-nominated staff writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers. This background in professional joke-writing shows in the structure of the audio. His segment on aging is particularly focused, treating the physical decline of his thirties not as a tragedy, but as a series of small, bureaucratic annoyances. He approaches marriage, modern technology, and the trials of having a kid with a fast, conversational rhythm that values a quick punchline over a grand statement. When he describes his wife’s confusing choice of phrasing during intimacy, it is less about crude details and more about his own perpetual state of linguistic confusion.

The set list

3 bits

  1. His wife's poor choice of wording in the bedroom and awkward physical intimacy

    Acts out the awkward physical motions of feeling a woman's breasts with two squeezes.

  2. Why he is not cool enough to do hard drugs

    Self-deprecating reflection on his clean, uncool, and average demeanor.

  3. Reaction to the Bill Cosby allegations

    Explores his own personal neuroses, surprise, and sense of loss in a brief routine rather than making a heavy-handed political statement.

How it plays

Tone
Self-deprecating, blunt, relatable, and neurotic without being overly dirty or strident.
On stage
Blunt, down-to-earth, self-deprecating, dry, and somewhat awkward.
Pace
Dry delivery recorded in an intimate live club setting.
About
Marriage, Getting old, Having a kid, Growing up, Technology, Politics

What the critics said

Characterized by Vulture as a noteworthy debut album praised for relatable material and a unique take on the Cosby scandal, and noted by Carlo Zottmann for good jokes and dry delivery.

In the room: An intimate, packed, and supportive room of friends and fans during the primary taped show, with live ambient noise like clinking glasses and moved furniture.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: comedydynamics.com, open.spotify.com, storytel.com, radio.assisfeijo.com, vulture.com, zottmann.org, thecomicscomic.com.

Backstory

Balancing a full-time TV writing job, marriage, and fatherhood while navigating his identity as an average, self-proclaimed 'old man' who avoids heavy controversy.

Details

Released
Taped
The Stand, New York City
Runtime
46 min
Where
Comedy Dynamics (album)
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