What’s unique about Drew Hastings (or any individual) is what makes them interesting. As he wrote in one of his online blogs, “the road not taken” is the more rewarding. I just wish he’d taken that road more often in his comedy. If he had mined his life experiences for his comedy, instead of rattling off recycled jokes and rehearsed patter, I’d have been riveted. (More to the point - I might even have laughed.) He is “big on experiential experiences” and has proven that with a varied and colorful life spent under many guises in many places.

Drew Hastings: Irked and Miffed seems tame by comparison. One is left wishing for more "there" there. Recommended for his loyal corps of fans; others would do better to rent some Richard Pryor. Or Richard Lewis, if the man in black schtick grabs ya - he did it first, and better. Perhaps Hastings is the penultimate postmodern man: many personae, many changes, a copy of a copy of a copy - of himself. He tours “about 35 weeks a year”, he typed, so - he does okay. It takes real courage to stand alone on stage and tell some jokes. It takes even more courage to stand alone on stage and tell the truth. With all that he’s been through, there has got to be more than a jaded exterior to offer his audience. Or, so one hopes. "I believe all comedy comes from pain," Hastings typed. So, does he have the guts to go into that pain to truly find it? As the saying goes, “There’s a story there”.

It just hasn’t as yet been filmed.