On Friday night I went to the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Stanley Park to see Bill Burr—which was awesome, and Stanley Park was such a good venue for it, but that’s not what I want to talk about.

I had one of the cheap-o tickets near the back—stand in long lines, bring your own chair—but with the sound system and the screens, it was fine. The interesting thing was that for some reason, the powers that be didn’t trust those of us in General Admission not to use our phones to film the show. ...