Here are some of the great jokes and bits from Bretton’s classic stand-up routines from last year:

“See, now girls. Girls can go to a club and they’ll be like ‘We’re at the club. But it’s not like a club as in a clubhouse. It’s a club as in a dance club.’ Then, they’ll continue to talk as follows: ‘Let’s dance by ourselves! We don’t need male counterparts!’ And they’ll dance in a circle with their purses in the middle. But males. Males would never just dance with other males. Right, males? Could you imagine? ‘Hey, males! Let’s dance by ourselves! We don’t need girls!’ Then they’d dance in a circle. It wouldn’t be that weird, but kind of, right?”

“What if peaches had a rind you had to peel? You’d be like, ‘Yes, I’d like a peach, please!’ Then you’d have to stand there (or sit there) peeling it!”

“Uh…I don’t know. Are you with me here? I love how they call that thing you put a picture or painting in a ‘frame.’ Yeah. Exactly. ‘Why yes. I would like to frame my picture of Aunt Lou for a crime it didn’t commit, thank you very much.’ I mean, right? Or ‘How would I frame my picture, meaning how, in the same way that I frame my argument, would I frame my picture?’ Doesn’t make sense, right? Stop calling that thing you put your pictures in a frame!”

“This guy at work. He’s all…oh, what’s the word…just like all smirky. Like he knows everything. Talks about books and politics. But he…he won’t…he tried to ask Iliana out and he was saying all these compliments and…I don’t know…it was just the way he did it that was just weird, almost funny.”

Pulls out some terra (i.e., dirt) from a suitcase, duffle, or some other container. Says, “Here is some terra!” Then, pulls out an irrific (with the help of an audience member). He holds it up side-by-side with the terra and says, “Together these two things are terra-ific! Literally!”

Bretton: “What was…Did you see that ‘My Name Is Earl’ where the woman…”

Audience: “Which woman? The dark-haired one or the main one, Joy?”

Bretton: “Yeah. Her. Joy. But she…so she is making spaghetti for her kids and…she’s saying this stuff to Earl…and she pours on this really bad looking sauce onto the spaghetti. Or…I don’t know…”

Audience: “She squirts ketchup on the spaghetti instead of sauce. That’s what was funny about it.”

“So, I bought some instant water. I read the instructions and it just said “add water.” Wait…No. That’s not right. Why would I buy instant water if I already had the water to add to it? Crap. What’s the joke? Sorry. I’m not remembering this joke right. I’m a little off…a lot of people in my family died today.”

“Why are spacemen always wearing those helmets when they’re in space? Do they really need those things? I mean, imagine if everybody wore helmets to work! I’d be like putting something in a filing cabinet with my space helmet on.”