Dayton Ohio - Christian Finnegan @ Dayton Funny Bone
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When Christian Finnegan was trying to arrive at a title for his first DVD release, he rifled through the punchlines in his comedy act, looking to find the right snappy, snarky one-liner. “But they all seemed a little too standup comedy-ish to me,” he explains. “Then I thought of Au Contraire, which is just a throw-off phrase that I used in the middle of a joke. It was very indicative of me, in the sense that it’s a little foppysounding, but also a little bit defiant. Because that’s a major element of my comedy: ‘You are wrong. And now I’m going to tell you why you’re wrong.’” But maybe Au Contraire also fits as a title because Finnegan is a bit of a self-contrarian, when it comes to having a comedy style that’s not easy to pin down. He’s highly recognizable to the TV-viewing comedy cognoscenti for being a regular on VH1’s Best Week Ever and Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show.
Yet when it comes to his standup act, he chucks purely topical humor out the window in favor of getting personal. And as you watch the opening minutes of Au Contraire, it may not be easy to peg right away exactly which vein of comedy gold Finnegan intends to mine. Is his comedy sophisticated, or does he work blue? Will he go for the lowest common denominator, or take the comic high road? The answer to all of the above would be… yes. “Sometimes I find that I’m too dirty for the people who want to hear really highfalutin comedy, and too highfalutin for people who really want to hear about boobs,” Finnegan notes. “But I kind of like that, because the people who can relate to both are the people I’m trying to reach.
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