I can’t yet fully verbalize how great Todd Glass’ show at Acme was tonight. Let me just preface it by saying it was all I could have hoped for and more.

Within the first five minutes he had two women kicked out for being obnoxious & rude. He encouraged another woman to leave after he asked her the rhetorical question, “you’re having fun, right?” and she answered, “getting there.” She took the hint and left, shortly before another group did (they were with the first two women). He loved it. Why wouldn’t he love knowing that everyone who was in the room at the end of the night was totally along for the ride, as he described it “kind of a roller coaster at first, but you know, it was fun!”

This man loves the institution of stand-up comedy, and is not afraid to point out just how insanely rude some people can be, to the comedian and the rest of the audience, when they talk or pass notes to the stage during the show.

He did crowd work. He did the Rodney impression. He did bits I’ve laughed-until-I-cried at from his podcast. And he was such a cool dude when I gave him my dorky little gift. I definitely made him a card with a drawing of a grilled cheese sandwich and inside just told him thank you for being such a great guy & ultimately encouraging more silliness in this world. Immediately after handing it to him, I wanted to grab it back. But so what, who cares. He liked his present of word bubble sticky notes, told me he gets jealous of Marc (Maron, like I’m on a first-name basis with him, because I listen to podcasts, natch) for getting gifts, I apologized that it wasn’t candy like Marc always talks about getting, and he said not to worry about it because he’ll probably get so high tonight he’ll eat them anyway.

Love this guy. Love Acme. Love love love.