Local comedian Brett Hamil takes on the perils of party conversations, or really I guess any conversations, in his latest video. Here he gets help from fellow Seattle joke-distributors and freinds Travis Vogt, Emmett Montgomery, Christan Leonard, and Meredith Flanders. It’s hard to imagine what might happen if you threw a close-talker into this equation.

Grant Brissey covered everything from hard news and technology, to music, film, and visual arts during his time working for The Stranger. Grant's work has also appeared at Geekwire, and in Billboard,...