Nick Offerman, Bigot
by RyanMelissa on 3/28/13Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium - San FranciscoRating: 1 out of 5In fairness, I did not know what to expect from this show, which Nick Offerman humorously made light of at the beginning of his set ("tonight you came to see...you have no f---ing idea what"). Sadly, the only funny parts of the show were those that found him channeling Ron Swanson. The rest was a bizarre, immature, and vulgar attempt at bathroom humor and bodily fluid jokes mixed with non-comedic rants on his own personal views. His use of profanity was not even well-placed but seemed more like an attempt to convince the crowd that he was edgy and cool. What was most disturbing was his outright bigotry and hate for anyone who disagreed with his stated views. Most of the first half of the show was aimed not at comedy but ridiculing the Bible and religion in general. Now I understand that nothing is off limits for comedy, but this was not even an attempt at comedy. It was literally a description of his own views accompanied by name-calling. Ironically, much of this came under his second of ten "life tips", which he called "say please and thank you"...in other words, be nice to one another. His description of the things he ridiculed was nothing more than a sad caricature, but he really seemed to think he was making intelligent points. The SF crowd ate this up, of course. If Offerman had made some of the same comments but made them about Jews, Muslims, minorities, gays, or anyone else, he may have actually been physically removed from the stage for hate-speech. I really can't say enough how saddened and disgusted we were after even just the first half of this show. The only decent part of this show was the live music that opened the show (Megan Mullaly's musical act). We left about halfway through the show and were not the only ones. I felt "off" all weekend after this show. Ron Swanson=boss, Nick Offerman=immature bigot.
