Long ago, in a time far before now, in the olden times even before the “pre-pandemic before times”, the brilliant Kyle Ayers had created a beautiful, hysterical, ridiculous show that inverted the entire idea of roasting on its head, Boast Rattle. Instead of comedians roasting each other with the most foul things they could write about the opposing comedian in a one-liner joke form, Ayers challenges the best comedians he can gather to compliment each other in joke form. The results are so inventive and clever and so damn fun (we’ll never forget Matt Ingebretson, co-creator of This Fool, working in a 9/11 joke into a compliment).

Well, it has been a long time, for a lot of reasons, since Ayers has gotten to put on a Boast Rattle show, but, thankfully, he’ll be doing one next week on Fri. Feb. 24th at 7:30PM at Lyric Hyperion. The line-up he has would be great at roasting, but definitely will be stellar at comedic complimenting. That’ll include Aparna Nancherla, Danny Jolles, Jared Logan, Kara Klenk, and Rob Haze.

Tickets are only $15 right now and go get them here right now.