Still, there was a self-effacing ease to Dismukes’s patter that made the bit a standout anyway. He got his biggest laughs by making room for the awkward silence that greeted his mention of his home state, and sarcastically calling out the muted reaction to his Frasier gag. Dismukes knows how to work a crowd, in other words, with the kind of unassuming poise and deadpan charm he’s honed across countless stage gigs. If it wasn’t a star-making moment on par with, say, Bowen Yang playing a haughtily aggrieved iceberg, it still proved Dismukes could endear himself to a younger audience, which