- [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.
(laughing)
All the comedians will be wearing noise-canceling 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?
(crowd cheering)
Please put your hands together for Dan Deacon.
(crowd cheering)
- Hello everyone, hi my name's Dan I live in
Baltimore, Maryland, alright.
(crowd cheering)
So what we're going to do is were gonna do a
group sing-a-long, where everyone inside the theater
is going to sing exactly what I'm singing
as soon as you hear it.
You're gonna try to take it in all aspects of sound,
the pitch, the amplitude, if all of us could stand up.
Now I'm gonna make a sound and you're gonna try
to make it at the exact same time you hear it,
I'll count down to four and then we'll give it a try.
One, two,
three, four,
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,
pyup, heheheeeeeeeeeeee,
bwwwwwoss, bwwwwwwwoooooos,
which one a here bwos
but in those basketballs booooooooooooooooys,
mmmmdeeeeeeeev,
deva jus don't knowwwwwwwwwwwww deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.
Okay I think that was a pretty good job,
I'm not sure if you're still doing it.
Of course I'd have no idea
but um, if everyone could sit down
except for everyone in the room named Dave.
If everyone could sit down except for everyone
in the room named Dave,
and we could get every person whose name is Dave
up on to the stage,
let's get all the Daves to the stage.
Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave Dave,
(crowd chanting)
get those Daves up there.
I want to see a stage full of Daves,
a stage full of Daves,
fill that stage with Daves.
Alright, alright how many, I don't have any idea
how many Daves we have,
I'm sure it's fucking to the brim with Daves,
it's just overflowing with Daves,
a non-stop stream of Daves.
All the Daves, let's hear it for the Daves,
everybody as loud as you can.
(crowd cheering)
Alright let's stand up, standing applause for the Daves.
Standing applause for the Daves,
(crowd cheering)
let's get out of those seats, out of those seats.
Okay, alright let's fold-up, let's fold-up
all of our chairs, let's fold-up all of our chairs,
fold-up your chair,
you're no longer standing in your chair,
you're folding your chair up,
your chair is a folding chair and you're folding it up
and let's just put them in a pile in the center of the room,
a big pile of folding chairs.
Lets just make a gigantic pile of folding chairs
and once you're done putting your chair in the pile
get up on that stage and now you're a Dave.
Once your chair is in the pile, you're a Dave.
Let's just fill that stage with Daves
and the way you become a Dave is you fold-up that chair,
you put it in the pile and you get up on that stage.
Let's fill that stage with Daves.
Walk right up on that stage cause you're a Dave now.
Okay now that the stage is full of Daves,
it's just full of,
thank you very much, goodnight everybody.
(laughing)
- Dan Deacon.
- What was that like for you?
- Um, it was, it was really therapeutic to be honest.
- Uh, how do you feel now that you're out?
- Uh, remarkably nervous and afraid to go back.
(laughing)