Scott Seiss

I’m probably at the end of the line in terms of when a viral video will reach my social media feeds, but at some point a couple months back a bunch of comedians I follow on Twitter started sharing clips of “angry IKEA employee” (for lack of a better description). This mustached young man staring straight into the camera is having a one-sided conversation with an angry customer, unleashing his rage at his lot in life, and boredom with his employer, in hilarious one-liners set to a creepy Halloween-style soundtrack. “You think you hate this place more than me? I work here!” and “‘I know that’s not right, I used to work here’ — well things change. Sorry they didn’t run it by you first” are pretty typical jokes, and incapable of being done justice in print. But Scott Seiss, the man in the vids, is more than an online sensation, having opened doing stand-up gigs with the likes of such heavy hitters asPatton Oswalt and Bo Burnham. I’m hoping his latest creation, “Angry Renter,” makes an appearance when he hits Spokane.

Scott Seiss • Tue, June 28 at 7:30 pm • $25 • 18+ • Spokane Comedy Club • 315 W. Sprague Ave. • spokanecomedyclub.com • 509-318-9998