The sheer variety of American stand-up comedy burnishes its greatness. You've got your pioneering legends (Pryor, Newhart, Bruce), big-name headliners (Seinfeld, Rock, Chappelle), dependable workhorses (C.K., Wright, Johannsen), A+ joke writers (Silverman, Attell, Liebman), and a raft of alt-hipsters (Oswalt, Cross, Garofalo). Falling squarely into the final camp is Todd Barry, whose picture might appear in the dictionary if there were a word meaning "snide, deadpan, and consistently funny." Fresh from an appearance in The Wrestler, the New York Times magazine essayist returns to prove that even the soft-spoken can eviscerate.