If you get under Lewis Black’s skin, prepare to be dragged. The stand-up comic, who’s known as the King of Rant, skewers his subjects with comedic yelling and animated finger-pointing. Black’s diatribes blaze through the absurdities in current events, media, and politics. Also a talented voice actor, Black famously voiced Anger in Pixar’s Inside Out, and his latest special, “Tragically, I Need You,” covers coping with the pandemic, frustrations with an evolving world, and the chaos of America.
Saturday 12/2. $49.75–74.75, 8pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net