Lewis Schaffer is Free Until Famous

The comedic powerhouse that could be best described as the awkwardly conceived love child of Woody Allen and Joe Pasquale is a definite watch. Not the smoothest, or the smartest, the most attractive, or even the most rehearsed comedian you'll ever see BUT you will laugh and you will hear original jokes.

I went to this last week! A truly bizarre evening but well worth it. Review of sorts here:

http://www.fightemptiness.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/on-wednesday-night-i-didnt-feel-like.html

I thought the show was hilarious! Don't get the other comments at all. Maybe they had a bad night. I am definitely going again.

Show was OKish...had some funny moments but overal mediocre. The 'penis' jokes were a bit cheap and at the end the whole thing fell into shambles when he was trying to find a funny way to ask for a donation...and failed. He should just have finished the show and then got out his donation box. Everyone was expecting it anyway. On a good note...this kind of stand up is not easy...he just needs to hope for some good feedback from the public and work with that.

A very uncomfortable show , not often funny and desperately clutching at straws.

Mr Schaffer's show was terrible: it was awkward to be in the audience and the venue smelt strange. I also brought a cute girl with me trying to impress her which back-fired. Sorry, not recommended.

Saw Mr. Schaffer yesterday evening and thought the show was a disaster. He made a few jokes about what a "bad night" it was so maybe it's usually a lot better.... Overall I just felt the room was uncomfortable and would have easily preferred to pay up for a good laugh instead.

We saw Mr Schaffer in NYC years ago. I think the neuroses are real. In fact, I know they are.

But truth tell, is he gay?

The comedy is almost a sideshow. It's a rollercoaster ride of an Event. I've never seen anything like it. I've seen him twice at the Source Below. Two totally different shows. In theory, one was good and one degenerated into shambles, but it made no difference. His personality makes it work and his apparent neuroses (I don't know if they're real or not either) make the show work, I imagine, in all circumstances.

Saw Mr Schaffer last week and really enjoyed his performance. I saw an afternoon show and perhaps because of that he presented as having a warm, amiable side which did not always lend itself to the image of controversial New York comedian.
I personally would have liked to have heard a little more about him rather and his take on the cultural and other differences between Americans and their English cousins
Well worth seeing and if you can make it to the door at the end of the show before he can get there from the stage with his Money bucket then it’s even better value. I will look for him next year when I would anticipate he will have progressed from the Free venue circuit.