It’s frazzled funnyman Jake Johannsen this week. When I was covering stand-up comedy for the Post, they sent me out to review Jake three times. Now, I like the guy; he’s one of the top comics working. His mind is quick, bright, and bizarre—a winning combination. Johannsen can turn a one-word epithet into a pithy sociological statement. But I ran out of ways to say “This guy is quick, bright, and bizarre.”

Maybe the editors were just huge fans, or maybe it was a case of institutional amnesia at the 15th Street behemoth. They didn’t want a Margaret Cho review. Or even post-rehab Brett Butler. But a Johannsen three-peat they got. So maybe I’ll keep playing him the next couple weeks…

One thing I’ve never been able to figure out is why sometimes you see Johannsen with glasses and sometimes you don’t.

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