Robby Roadsteamer + Seven on his friends = Hilarity
SHANE MAUSS In the few years since Roadsteamer (a/k/a Rob Potylo) and Mauss first met, at an open-mic night at the Emerald Isle in Dorchester, the latter has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien three times, won the Best Stand Up Comic award at the 2007 US Comedy Arts Festival, and was called (by this paper), "the man who could put Boston's comedy scene back on the map." THE WALSH BROTHERS Former Charlestownians David and Chris — masters of the sketch and the shaggy-dog story both — are "hands down my favorite," says Potylo. "In terms of a duo act, in terms of chemistry, of knowing when to shut up when the other one's talking. I saw them at Jimmy Tingle's just telling about going to Montreal trying to get into the comedy festival, and everybody's gut laughing for two-and-a-half hours." CHRIS COXEN His one-man troupe, Chris Coxen's League of Characters, includes "combat dancer Danny Morsel, Revere Beach meathead Ripps McCoxen, self-help guru Stever Pate, and "Future Queer" — a man in a rubber wig whose mission, says Potylo, is to "alert everybody that the future's going to be very gay!" THE ANDERSON COMEDY GROUP "I love them because they're trying to create a comedy scene in Allston," says Potylo. "They're not afraid to try to plant seeds where otherwise it's a bunch of douchebags in seashell necklaces and untucked dress shirts fighting for Zimas at the dance clubs." MEHRAN KHAGHANI He was two classes behind Eugene Mirman at Lexington High School — must be something in the water. He's gay. He's Iranian. Get used to it. "I would put my money on Mehran as the secret breakout," says Potylo. "He's larger than life. There's no off switch." BETHANY VAN DELFT "Absolutely a godsend," Potylo calls her, a pointed antidote to "the same six to seven guys with bad Boston accents basically getting up and saying a variation on a theme." SHANE WEBB The evening's MC, Webb was Potylo's roommate for a year or so before recently moving to Brooklyn. "She's hilarious," he says, adding, cryptically: "she's from Virginia, but you'd think she was born and raised in Allston." | 