Some people live life with the belief that "what goes without saying" too often goes unsaid. Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter follow a creed more along the lines of "whatever we feel like saying deserves to be said," regardless of what it is or who's listening. The pair know that those who want to listen will, and at this point, they don't seem to be on the hunt for new ears. People either "get it" or they don't, and the duo seems fully aware of this fact.

The two comedians brought their absurd brand of humor to Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco Friday night (moved from Oakland's much larger Fox Theater fairly last minute) as part of their "Michael and Michael Have Live Tour" … well ... tour. Named after their similarly titled seven-episode Comedy Central summer series, "Michael and Michael Have Issues," the performance once again brought together the two men, who first met at NYU in the late '80s. They've since worked together on MTV's '90s sketch-show "The State," the short lived Comedy Central program "Stella" and a variety of other projects.

While their TV series portrayed the two as a highly competitive duo with a fully dysfunctional partnership, the live act showed off the intense chemistry of the duo. No doubt a result of their history but nonetheless a testament to the true understanding they have of each other's sense of humor, watching them interact was entertainment enough. Armed with only a laptop, two stools and extra long microphone cords, the Michaels ping-ponged jokes and stories off each other for entirety of their set, only breaking to show a clip of an "overenthusiastic" interview they did with a Detroit television station at the beginning of the tour.

Unlike the equally silly but more structured format of their "Stella" stage show, Friday's performance left the lines between what was rehearsed and what was improvised entirely blurred. Usually avoiding observational wit in favor of "so one time …" storytelling, frequent audience shout-outs set the comedians up for supposed true-tales about one another, tour experiences and daily life.

Their storytelling was similar to walking a dog. Rather than telling their joke in a straight line from start to finish, the Michaels zig-zagged their way from one end to the other, spending as much time with the main narrative as the sidebar anecdotes they interrupted themselves with. It never took much more than one word to derail the pair's train of thought. Just the mention of a mustache turned a story about cat adoption into a lengthy description of an authoritative walrus.

Despite their content, which, by all accounts, is silly and stupid, Michael and Michael somehow maintain a "high-brow" reputation. It has as much to do with their snobby stage presence with the fact that their humor creates a sort of comedic pretension among their audience, who feel a sense of entitlement and community for being among the chosen few who "get" the pair.

It's not worth trying to explain their jokes. This might further paint the picture of the aforementioned "chosen few" assertion, but it has more to do with the fear of butchering the comedy with misquotes and the inevitable "yeah, I guess you had to be there" closing line.

It might not be entirely accessible, but it's a shame that it isn't. Michael and Michael unintentionally teach a valuable lesson. Life's full of enough things to worry about; sometimes funny shouldn't involve so much thinking.