> "A bad sketch show can be truly mortifying, but a good one, especially when combined with a heavily poured gin and tonic or three, is like a night out with your funniest friends. Not only does Train of Thought: Laid Off not totally suck, it's actually a solid evening of ably constructed, good jokes peppered with pockets of awesome. Tenuously clinging to the familiar and rather bland theme of office life, much of Laid Off's success rests on the amiability of its performers. All three guys are good-natured and Ryan Miller is particularly good, so you're willing to stick with them through the rough patches. Kudos to Train of Thought for eschewing the easy laughs of absurdism and gratuitous dirtiness, and for launching a long-overdue campaign against 'coworker-on-coworker awkwardness.' Laid Off is definitely hit-and-miss, but the sequence of increasingly inappropriate 'Yield for the Bus' advertisements is just plain funny, if a bit formulaic, and the rest of the show features enough Loverboy tracks, dolphin abuse, and Indian burial grounds to keep even comedy snobs like me entertained. I'm for it." (Lindy West)