My overall impression
I’ve seen this show three times now over the years and it’s still one of the funniest live shows I’ve ever seen. Dean Cameron and Victor Isaac are flat out awesome. I could stop there because if funny is what you’re after, see this show. Easy. But this show is much more than a guy goofing off on the internet with some criminal overseas.
This show is an exercise in the delivery of justice.
Stay with me.
Keep in mind, the whole show is the reading of an email exchange between Cameron and an actual Nigerian scammer. It’s real. This happened.
At the top of the show, Cameron reminds us that these scammers really are very bad people. By allowing this scammer to continue thinking he’d got a live one, Cameron draws out not only the Nigerian’s ruthlessness but his ignorance as well.
I admire Dean Cameron. It was he who got ahold of a live one, a ruthless, cold-blooded criminal, and Cameron beat him up. With sarcasm, irony, and silliness. For over a decade. He gave the Nigerian so much rope, so masterfully. Watching the criminal hang himself over and over and over again is a sheer, justified delight. Because he’s a liar and a thief. And Dean Cameron kicked his ass. In public. Turned his whole party into a huge, decade long joke. My father always said a man is prepared to be kick, punched, spat on, yelled at, even shot. But no man is prepared to be laughed at. Well, this guy’s being laughed at. By rooms full of people. On the internet. All over the place.
I can think of no better justice than that.
P.S. – Remind me to never piss off Dean Cameron.
