- [Voiceover] What happens to a comedian
when you take away their audience?
This is a show where comedians perform
to a camera alone in a room while the audience
watches from an entirely different room.
(laughter)
All the comedians will be wearing
noise canceling headphones,
so they'll have no idea how their set is going.
This is Seven Minutes in Purgatory.
- Are we ready to start the show?
(applause and cheers)
These are some of my favorite people in the world.
You are going to really enjoy this.
Please put your hands together for Wham City.
(applause and cheers)
- What's the first thing you see
when you go into an Italian restaurant?
You see what?
- Umm.
- There's a coat rack.
They check your coat.
- Yeah, but not all of the time.
- It's a nice Italian restaurant.
This is what producers would do.
This is such a fucking ramshackle.
Fuckin' situation, there's no ...
This sound is like, what did you say?
It says, I'll have the, I'd like some spaghetti,
is it hot?
Is it hot?
And you say, "No it's a cold spaghetti,
"it's a cold spaghetti, spaghetti, cold spaghetti,
"cold spaghetti, spaghetti that is cold."
Yes, good.
That guy, Ian?
- Yeah?
- Remember how nice he was to us, in Chicago,
and then he just goes on this super right wing rant.
And you know, I'm conservative, I voted for Romney,
but it doesn't matter.
I'm gonna do the cold pasta, cold pasta,
pasta that is cold.
- Okay.
- Cold pasta.
Mamma Mia, that's a cold-ah pasta.
That's the coldest pasta I've ever seen.
- I am my Joe skinny whinny, this is my brother, Sal.
- Sal skinny whinny, yes, our father is a
cold pasta maker, greatest cold pasta maker,
all of Philadelphia.
- Only cold pasta.
- Only...
Aaaagh.
(screams)
Jesus, what?
(screams)
(audience laughter)
- No, don't.
(screams)
(audience laughter)
(screaming and grunting)
(banging )
(audience laughter)
- Door, open up.
(audience laughter)
- Door open up.
(audience laughter)
- So, they can hear me but I can't hear them?
That how it works?
(audience laughter)
oh, okay I can't hear them, I get it.
This is the camera I look in.
So around my house, I'm the kind of guy who cooks dinner
and the wife does the dishes,
that's just how we do it.
Well, last night, she comes home with talapia.
And I love talapia, so I am pumped.
And she says, "Honey, I'm gonna cook, you do the dishes."
Uh oh.
(chuckles)
Here we go, so anyways, I'm honoring my vows,
after dinner, and I'm putting the dirty dishes
into the dishwasher, and she stops me mid-dish.
She says, "Honey, you gotta wash the dish
"before it goes in the dishwasher."
Uh, huh?
She says, "It's pre-washing, it's called pre-washing,
"and it's a thing."
Uh, it's news to me.
It's news to me.
That's my time?
That's my time.
Thank ya so much, this is a wonderful show,
you've been a wonderful audience I think.
It's a fun concept, bye-bye.
(applause)
(laughter)
- [Voiceover] Give it up for Wham City.
- Hello.
- How was that for you guys?
- It was, very odd.
- I just think it's a wonderful gimmick.
- Part of our problem with working in a group,
is that sometimes communication isn't as easy
as you think it would be.
So sometimes people just come up with ideas.
And they just decide, that's the set now.
Sometimes we don't make as much money
as we think that we should make.
And you know, some of us have, are on social services.
And you know, not just your fantasy of
what those people are.
- Yeah, that's definitely something to consider.