Both Oswalt and Garofalo are far more than standups at this point in their respective careers. Oswalt had a lengthy run on the sitcom "The King of Queens," has appeared in several movies and is the lead voice in this summer's Pixar offering, "Ratatouille." Garofalo has a lengthy acting resume to her credit, as a lead actress in movies and regular on "The West Wing." She was one of the first voices on liberal "Air America" radio when it launched, and she also voices a role in "Ratatouille."

A Disney-driven press junket for "Ratatouille" led both comics to their first-ever performances in Utah Thursday, and it was clear who has stayed sharp delivering jokes on stage on a regular basis. Oswalt killed from beginning to end of his set, while Garofalo's act was hit-or-miss, delivered in starts and stops while she accessed gags written in a notebook.

That's not to imply Garofalo didn't have some good material. She started her set with a few minutes detailing her hike around downtown Salt Lake City when she first arrived Tuesday, likening the vacant streets at 7 p.m. to stepping onto the set of zombie-apocalypse thriller "28 Days Later."

Most of Garofalo's act revolved around kicking a drinking habit in favor of painkillers, her scatter-mindedness and, of course, politics. To wit:

"I take Vicodin now instead of drinking, but I call them 'Vicadoodles.' Who could get addicted to Vicadoodles? It just sounds better. Like 'hobo' sounds better than 'homeless drug addict.'"

"For me, watching the Republican debates is like watching 'American Idol.' 'Change it! Change it! CHANGE IT!!!'"

"Let me give you some advice for when you have an intervention. And you will. Just agree to everything everyone is saying about you and start crying immediately."

"I've heard about couples that have been together a long time and still find each other sexually attractive and still crack each other up. But I think they're like unicorns. I've never seen them."

Oswalt's time on stage was dedicated to more obscure, less-political topics, ranging from "Star Wars" to KFC "Famous Bowls" to Hollywood. Some of Oswalt's best lines of the night:

"Heroin needs a 'Sideways.'"

Unprotected sex "is like having sex in a Viking ship that's on fire. 'We're gonna die!!!'"

"I dance like a special-ed kid who was just given a sparkler."

"All my interests are marijuana and comic books. That doesn't exactly get you out in the sun, talking to the ladies."