Alonzo Bodden Brings TDS to Swanky Pittsburgh Club

Alonzo Bodden has a serious case of Kimmel envy.

The comic brought his stand-up shtick to Pittsburgh Saturday, basking in a venue that didn’t resemble a comedy club in any way, shape or form.

The posh City Winery could have distracted Bodden from his late-night TV audition. But he soldiered on, interrupting his set with an extended political riff dripping with the dreaded Clapter.

Bodden teased his TDS early, but he stuck to standard-issue gags like a humiliating brush with a rental car outlet. He suggested he’ll be taping a new comedy special in Canada, in part, because the country is more amenable to free speech.

Yes, that Canada. Tell that to the truckers who were punished for protesting extreme pandemic lockdowns.

The comedian complained that we’re living in a very dumb age, a generic riff that could have gone in any number of directions. The “Mr. Birchum” alum chose the Kimmel/Colbert walkway.

The comedian raged against all things Trump, repeatedly calling him a liar and attacking every member of his cabinet, including some by name, as the worst of the worst.

The timing was awkward, given what the Secretary of War had pulled off hours earlier.

By the time Bodden hit the stage, the Trump administration had taken out Iran’s corrupt leadership, the ruling body that recently slaughtered tens of thousands of its own people.

Team Trump didn’t lose a single U.S. soldier in the effort, and Iranians across the globe were celebrating the precise and deadly military strikes.

Maybe his phone’s data plan crashed before the set?

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Bodden wasn’t done. He blasted the press for not being hard enough on Trump and bragged that he had voted for “the black lady,” AKA Kamala Harris. How did she get every question right, he wondered aloud, during the campaign.

Yes, he actually suggested the woman who chose Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate was that smart and polished.

Are you sure about that?

Later, he more than suggested the Butler, Pa. assassination attempt on Trump was staged, saying the future president’s ear had magically grown back. He added an Evander Holyfield reference for good measure.

That’s Rosie O’Donnell-level TDS, made even worse when you consider he told the joke in the same state where the attack took place. Wonder how the family of Corey Comperatore feels about that wacky bit?

Oh, and he said President Trump has dementia. Of course.

President Trump is obviously a ripe political target, but his critics often stumble over a combination of rage and fuzzy satire. Bodden’s bits felt more like therapy, although the liberal crowd didn’t mind his Colbert-style meltdown.

Pittsburgh is a steel blue city, even if the state went Red in 2024.

Bodden eventually abandoned TDS for the latter half of the performance. He focused on the side effects of giving a kidney to his brother and why it compared to a challenging yoga class. Low-brow stuff, no doubt, but it had an authentic “air” to it, which helped.

He also got personal, describing why, at 63, he had never been married but is devoted to his Great Dane. The love of his life is comedy, something he embraced after a brush with both the law and hard drugs.

That changed his life, allowing him to travel the world and escape the shackles of addiction.

He saved the best for last, thank goodness.