All the posts expressing indignant shock at locking up phones surprise me. Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv rap show in NYC, was doing that maybe six, seven years back and so were others. Nothing new, though I'd bet performers are probably increasing use of the lockup tech. People are going to record otherwise. Artists have a right to their own material and purchasing a ticket doesn't give the ticketholder a right to record, keep and share that material. Anyone so attached to their phone, or so terrified of Something Awful Happening in the two hours of a show that they cannot be separated from their phone, should not risk going to a show where the phone will be locked up.

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Anonymous wrote:How did they lock up phones? Never heard of this. Were they confiscated? Some sort of freakin' laser beam thing??

I have friends who just went to see Chris Rock and Kevin Hart. They had to keep their phones in a magnetically locked bag, then the venue had people unlocking them when the show was over.

Omg! It's like that wedding post from earlier this summer!

I really thought that person was exaggerating or lying. I'd never been to a show or event where it happened until this show.

PP with the Rock/Hart friends - I have never been to a show like that either. My DH though went to a Misfits show three years ago that had this policy. He and his friend decided to leave their phones in the car instead, then got separated right away and had no plan to meet up later if that happened because who makes those anymore? Disaster.

I didn't go to the show, but I have a soft spot for him ever since I heard his jukebox bit. I was laughing so hard in my car I had to pull over.

Just watched one of his Netflix specials for the first time. He was decently fun. I’m sad to hear his personal life is a train wreck. Seems very common among creative/show biz personalities. More the rule than the exception.

We saw Mulaney’s show in a small venue (city winery in nyc) back in June 2021. I think he was workshopping material for the current big tour because the show we saw had slightly different material than the write up in Vulture about a show from just a few weeks earlier. Adults only venue, so no 10 year olds there, but he randomly interacted with people in the audience (something about an umbrella that belonged to a couple near the stage), and was very, very quick on his feet. He went on for 1.5 hours, and it was an amazing show even at that early stage (and I’m not a John mulaney superfan).

They locked our phones up, too, in little green neoprene bags which startled me, but it made sense at the time since 1) some material might bomb or be deemed offensive at such an early stage and he probably didn’t want a record of that 2) he made a number of allusions to his pending divorce, which I’m sure his divorce lawyer wanted to keep tamped down 3) why pay for tickets if you can watch a recording.

I still think it odd he dumped his wife said he didn’t want kids and then found a new woman and had a bay right away. Something’s wrong with that boy.

So they lock your phone and you get it at the end of the show?

Wow, that’s some tour. Includes places like Saskatoon and Poughkeepsie. He’s going to be exhausted. Hope his friends and family keep him sober. I do think he is really funny.

Now I wish I’d gone and taken my 11 year old! She doesn’t care for him—we watched the sack lunch gang or whatever. My 13 year old loves him though!