Ryan Singer - Comedy Wonder Town (CD)

In many ways, award-winning comic Ryan Singer is made up of just a few constitutive elements: wonder, a biological clock, and dick jokes (which, incidentally, will be your life raft should you find yourself adrift sometime after he welcomes you to Comedy Wonder Town and just before he begins considering the amazing process that is making a pair of scissors from scratch). But when they all come together, it’s comedy alchemy. With a stride that somehow seems equal parts Mitch Hedberg, Doug Stanhope, and Greg Proops, stamped with the approval of Marc Maron, Singer’s got an expertly-honed world view with more than a few interesting back alleys. Whether he’s playing wingman to his dad while spending all night cock-blocking his mom, inventing a daughter (Whitney) who writes formal letters to his ex/her putative “mother,” or explaining why it is that the hands of history on his haunches explains man’s relative inability to pull out properly each and every time, Singer’s endearing, adult, an