Hodgman last night was pretty good. Surpassed my expectations for the most part. Like I thought, it wasn't really stand up comedy but a straight up one man show about his experiences at his summer homes in rural Western Massachusetts and Downeast Maine ("the privileged white guy, comedy stylings of John Hodgman" as he put it). It was mostly comedy obviously though it did have a few poignant moments.
Only complaint is the setup for the show was confusing. It was General Admission but there were three different GA sections, one for people who had $60 tickets, one for people who had $25 tickets, one for broke bastards like me who bought the $20 tickets and they were sort of poorly marked. This is a show that would have worked well at the small 150 seat folk club or one of the big 2,000 seat theaters but it was too big for the former and not quite big enough for the latter so it was at a 600 person capacity rock club (where I saw Turquoise Jeep back in June! #KTJR). Just not a very comedy conducive venue. I saw W. Kamau Bell there in December and layout was similarly not great.
He also closed the show by playing two cover songs (one was Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner", which was pretty decent, and I didn't catch what the second was because I went to the can thinking the show was over) on the ukulele and leading audience in a singalong. I thought it was kind of a weird way to end the show.