"Six Comics, One Skechers Argument, and a Lot of First-Timers"

The February 7 show was wall-to-wall debuts — most of the audience had never been to HHH, and it showed (in a good way). Yarnmaze warmed them up with Italian-passing childhood trauma, Jackie Linn brought Paris energy, and Jackie Linn ran through a greatest-hits set that somehow connected the Grammys, the Lions, and confession. Katie Mark went full crowd-work mode — interrogating a barista, an insurance broker, and eventually the entire room about their fathers' anatomy. Ben O'Connell spent half his set bullying a quiet guy in the back and the other half renaming wars. Tristan A. Smith closed hot, threading race, gentrification and the Mandela Effect.