- [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.
(audience laughs)
All the comedians will be wearing noise-cancelling
headphones so they'll have no idea how their set is going.
This is 7 Minutes in Purgatory.
- Are we ready to start the show?
(audience applauds)
- You have seen this man on Comedy Central, Jimmy Fallon.
Please put your hands together for Mr. Nick Vatterott.
Yeah!
(audience applauds)
There he is!
Yes! All right! Yeah!
I'm gonna give you these.
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah. Enjoy it.
- All right.
- See you in seven minutes.
- Thanks.
Hey. (laughs)
(truck door closes)
- Oh boy
- The engine is started.
And now we're going somewhere. (laughs)
Did that hit?
This is weird.
That's what this show should be called, "This is Weird,"
cause that's what everybody says the whole time I assume.
Wow, it is more lonelier up here than it has ever been,
and it is often lonely.
(audience laughs)
This is standup with no laughter.
I've actually done that before.
It's called my act!
(audience laughs)
This is a prank.
You guys all laugh.
I'm gonna walk in there and it's gonna be like,
"I swear there was a production, and there was a bar,
"and I left my pills over there.
"It's all gone."
What pills?
Urinary tract infection.
If I'm so uncool, then why do I take
urinary tract infection pills I found in a dumpster?
Is a tweet.
Oh! This one moves around!
It's alive!
It lives!
It moves around and stuff, that's great.
Oh! It's learning.
(audience laughs)
Should I use the microphone?
Probably should talk into the microphone maybe.
They gave me one.
Hello? Let me out!
I'm in here hostage!
Nobody knows if someone's walking down the street.
I could just be like, "Hello! Let me out of here!"
There is a strip club, live girls.
That kills me, live girls.
There's live, live!
Step right up!
Live girls!
Live human women!
Step right up and see live human ladies
living in the flesh, folks.
Just right.
You've seen the bearded man.
You've seen the wobbly toddler.
We have live (laughs) human beings.
That kills me how live is like a big,
What guy is walking along and is like,
"Wow! Wow, a live girl!
"Oh man, they've got live girls in there?
"Oh boy! Oh man!
"I can't wait to see a real live human lady!
"I never seen a live woman before.
"I mean, I've seem them in pictures,
(audience laughs)
"but I've never seen them . . ."
This is weird.
Walking around.
I'm descending into madness.
I gotta get out of here, man.
I gotta get out of here.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna try to,
I'm gonna astro-project out of here, man.
I've gotta get out of here.
I'm gonna astro-project out of here
cause I can't be in here anymore.
(audience laughs)
I can't stand it.
I gotta be out of here, man.
Up, up and away.
I gotta get out of here.
I'm gonna meditate so I'm no longer in here.
Up, up, and away.
- [Voiceover] Up, up, and away.
- Up, up and away
- [Voiceover] Up, up, and away.
- Next time you see me
I'll be floating above you. - [Voiceover] Up, up, and away
- [Nick] Up, up, and away. - [Voiceover] Up, up, and away
Oh my gosh!
It worked!
Oh my gosh!
It is so good to be out of that room!
It's so good to be out of that body.
Oh man.
That body is a disaster.
(audience laughs)
Wow you guys really didn't leave?
Well, one guy left,
but most of you stayed.
Oh my gosh.
I guess now that I'm in here
I should probably do a little standup for you now, huh?
(truck door opens)
How's everybody doing tonight, huh?
Yeah!
Who's drinking tomorrow night?
All right!
Hey!
Anybody in from out of town tomorrow night?
Hey, where's the party at a couple weeks from now?
Anybody gonna be drinking a couple weeks from now?
Tomorrow night?
- Keep it going for Nick Vatterott!
Oh boy, let him hear it!
(audience applauds)
He can't hear it.
How did it feel when you got out?
- I still don't know.
(laughs)
I might be disconnected for the rest of my life.
I always have been - Wonderful
- but I feel like this,
at least I have something to blame now.
(truck door closes)