Red Tie Mafia‘s supposedly comedic performance is hosted by a woman with rippling arm muscles and extreme quantities of makeup.  She addresses the audience as if she were one’s fourth grade drama teacher presenting a theater game to the class.  For every skit, there was an introduction, such as, “Now, we’re going to put on a little press conference for you,” or something of the like.  Following the introduction, the performers would go about their acts not as if each was spontaneous but instead as if it had been planned.

Had these skits been funny, this manner of presentation could have been fitting.  Unfortunately, they weren’t.

The only truly extreme “humor” was by the show’s guests who were vulgar, sexually centered, and quite rude.  These guests (who appeared to be a constant pair for Red Tie Mafia’s performances) were two men, one with a guitar. Throughout their short stage time they made comments about masturbation, the women in the audience, and conducted themselves altogether inappropriately for any self respecting group of people. The audience rather enjoyed this unseemly act.  I did not.

The venue is a bar, it appeared, in addition to a host of non-comedic comedy.  The performance, even if it had been in Carnegie Hall, was a waste of time.