Brett Banta

Brett performed self-deprecating jokes about his resting angry face, looking like a default Madden character, and a comparison to the Trivago guy.

• Face looks like default white guy in Madden 2018, looks like defendant in court.

Jokes about disliking his name and comparing NFL players to gladiators. Riffs on how gladiators would have cool names versus Brett Banta, then imagines art school football with commentary about playing on canvas.

• Gladiator names sound cooler than Brett Banta
• NFL players introduce themselves with school names, art school football would be ridiculous

Brett discusses encountering people in distress in LA, his brother's kidney stone hospital visit, skateboarding, and homophobic language in sports terminology (Kobe on Wade, etc.).

• In LA you can see someone bleeding asking for help and everyone ignores them.
• Sports terminology sounds gay: Kobe on Wade, man-on-man coverage, hole.

Strong set with punchy one-liners about DUI checkpoints, ugly appearance, speeding, bad parenting, and hospital visits. Delivers multiple quick jokes with good callbacks.

• Tried to make deal with God to get through DUI checkpoint
• Ugly when hot chick picks her nose, she keeps going anyway
• Bad father drove pregnant wife to hospital, would run lights for taking crap

Brett discussed having four stepdads, his competitive mother with five rings like Kobe Bryant, discovering his dad's porn collection favoring Black performers, and wearing Tapout shirts while being skinny.

• Mother competitive like Kobe Bryant, both have five rings
• Father's porn collection features Black performers
• Skinny guys wearing Tapout shirts asking for trouble

Brett discusses his three half-Japanese daughters who mispronounce 'peanuts' as 'penis' in front of cops, his twin brother's Hollywood looks versus his own, and his willingness to take bullets for family.

• Daughters mispronounce peanuts as penis around cops
• Twin brother looks like movie star, Brett looks rough
• Would take bullet for brothers but only half-brother from waist down

Jokes about realizing mid-job interview he doesn't want the job and winging answers; works at Applebee's and jokes about mice eating from salad bar.

• Responds to job interview weaknesses with 'chin-ups, I can only do three'
• Works at Applebee's salad bar, only mice get full salads

Discusses visiting family in Texas for Christmas dinner, mentioning his aunt with Alzheimer's and jokes about her progressing memory loss.

• Good thing about messing up jokes about Alzheimer's is she's the only person in Texas who can't remember the Alamo.

Brett jokes about being frequently laid off and naming files 'final final final', proposes fantasy football with only himself and Asian cheerleaders, and jokes about never having Hawaiian shirt Fridays.

• File naming convention 'final final final' leads to repeated job loss
• Fantasy football team would be himself as QB and Asian cheerleaders

Brett opens by declaring his love for Asian women, then jokes about Asian women as bad drivers, flight attendants, Olympic athletes, and porn actresses. He rants about various situations involving Asian women with crude sexual humor throughout.

• Asian women are bad drivers; story about Japanese stewardess asking him to follow sword while swallowing.
• References watching gold medals, checking bank accounts, watching porn as reality checks that motivate personal improvement.
• Crude observations about Asian women fitting in trunks, not talking back, not going missing.