what is the word

Last nite what I thought I might do was go straight home from work, try to avoid spending any money on the way, & curl up with one thing or another, a nice little bowl or a DVD or the book I'm reading, The Magus, which incidentally marked the first time ever when I discovered I knew the definition of a word in its plural form but completely didn't recognize it in the singular. I was on page four or so when I decided I should probably figure out what the hell a magus is, anyway. As soon as I looked it up I thought, Oh, like magi, obviously. & felt very silly indeed.
Anyway I didn't stay in with the very singular Magus because instead I went to see a friend perform at a comedy show in Brooklyn with Sheri & Morgan. For some reason I was very nervous for him, I guess because stand-up seems like the most terrifying thing ever, but luckily he was quite funny. We were most impressed by this half-nerdy half-hot comedian in glasses named Liam. The weird part is I can't recall a single one of his jokes. Not a single one. I guess I was on beer number four or five by the time he appeared on stage & anyway my memory sucks in normal circumstances, but I remember Sheri & I leaning in to whisper about him, tottering a bit on our wooden stools, sitting on our coats with beers in hand & I remember that we were laughing a lot. After he was done I told him he was very funny & he shook my hand with much more firmness & assuredness than you would have expected from his act.
I think maybe I remember one of the jokes from the evening. It wasn't Liam's, but I think it went: "What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve?"
& then the answer was "Christopher Walken." Oucho.