Comedian Ari Shaffir headlines the Fox Theater at Foxwoods Friday, but, as with many working comics today, his career goes way beyond standup.

For a representative example, he's active in podcasts — his own "Skeptic Tank," as well as in a frequent-guest context; he hosted Comedy Central's "This is Not Happening" storytellers series; he produced a very funny video program called "The Amazing Racist"; and, last year, he came out with a clever Netflix special called "Double Negative," which is, in fact, two short standup specials hooked back-to-back.

Shaffir is fairly typical of a lot of modern observational comics in his darkly hysterical take on the idiocies of being human in the modern world. Fortunately for Shaffir, there are a LOT of idiocies; fortunately for us, he's got some truly clever takes on a lot of them.

Ari Shaffir, 8 p.m. Friday, Fox Theater, Foxwoods; $29; 1-800-200-2882.