Dave Fulton - ...based on a true story (CD)

You know how Stand Up! Records likes to say we prefer our comedy straight-up and a little bitter? Well, we also like it with an insider’s knowledge and an outsider’s perspective, which is precisely why Dave Fulton is our new star player. On his first CD, “…based on a true story,” Fulton makes a brief return from life as an ex-pat in London to perform in Minneapolis, full of both affection and invective when it comes to his home country. There are new language barriers—for instance, he now knows to recoil in horror at the phrase “fanny pack,” while he’s learned to use the “c-word” as variously as the “f-word” just like a proud English native. But, he astutely points out by way of a segue, maybe the whole gasp-at-linguistics reaction is part of the grand American problem: war, gun crime, illegal invasions, we’ll let all that go, but one reference to the ol’ “Downton Abbey” and a crowd goes silent. Mention that bin Laden didn’t need a fleet of airplanes when he could have taken down Ame