Album Review: Myles Morrison, You Better Be Funny

Myles Morrison’s You Better Be Funny is a 30-minute album that outlines the various situations Morrison observed and found himself in during the pandemic and beyond. While many may not have had a good time during the pandemic and subsequent quarantine, Morrison would gladly do it every year (that is, only if people didn’t get sick – he’s not a monster!). 

Morrison highlights the audience’s shared comical experiences of life during and after the pandemic, reminding us of some of the inane realities at the time, like never-ending hand sanitizing and questionable social distancing. In track 4’s “Lockdown”, Morrison expresses his disdain for those who he wouldn’t dare copy off of during high school being the ones who did their own COVID research. It’s a description that instantly conjures up the image of those one knows who fit the bill of being an unofficial COVID researcher. Morrison plays with the audience’s expectations before delivering punchlines that have the crowd happily enjoying the unraveling of the joke. The album ends with the seemingly random but delightful contemplations and queries on Jesus as a carpenter. “Was he any good? Was he working for his dad?”, Morrison wonders on track 17’s “Jesus with a Day Job”. 

That’s the beauty of You Better Be Funny, it takes the audience on a wild and enjoyable ride that feels good, no matter what topic Morrison happens to tackle.

You Better Be Funny was released on October 22, 2022 by Cottage Comedy Digital.
Listen to it here.