Four funnymen commanded the stage at Roughhouse Brewing last Thursday evening in a Schutze Scores comedy production. In Roughhouse’s packed upstairs lounge, Evan Lopez, Ellis Aych, Jason Johnson and Joshua Nieto kept the room laughing with routines peppered with self-mockery and audience roasting that delighted the crowd and showed off the comics’ impressive improvisational chops.
Austin-based comic Lopez delivered his observations of the world with his signature well-constructed punch lines. Ellis Aych, with his stand-out body language, took on various subjects, in a set crammed with short lead-ins to zingy punchlines. A self-proclaimed autistic person, Johnson gave the crowd a taste of his “on the spectrum” viewpoints.
Winding up the show was a high-octane performance by Joshua Nieto who skillfully engaged individual audience members with questions that he boomeranged into quick, improvisational riffs and comebacks. A former public school teacher, he was quick to find other professional teachers in the crowd with whom he alternately teased and commiserated, much to their delight and the delight of everyone else.
Raised in Wimberley, Jack Schutze regularly brings curated comedy shows to venues in Hays County.
