ST. PETERSBURG — Aziz Ansari might not like that I'm writing this.

"Another piece of Internet content written to generate clicks and speculation!" he might say in his signature high-pitched yell. "Another hot take for the woke masses!"

At least, that's the impression I got after attending one of Ansari's two sold-out stand-up sets Monday night at the Mahaffey Theater, part of a small nationwide tour dubbed "Aziz Ansari's Working Out New Material."

For much of Ansari's hourlong show, he railed against "wokeness," against an Internet culture that thrives on outrage and getting clicks and making much ado about what is sometimes nothing. He yelled about it, he sang about it, he incisively poked fun at the silly habits of this modern era.

It was a hysterical, passionate set from Ansari, the 35-year-old standup comic and star and creator of Netflix's Master of None.

These shows are the most we've seen from Ansari since January, when an anonymous woman accused him in an article on babe.net of pressuring her to have sex with him on a date. It was impossible not to wonder Monday night if Ansari's stance about how the Internet blows everything out of proportion was coming from that experience. Much of his set felt like classic Ansari, but there was a frustration, a fatigue, in his rants.

The millennial-heavy audience on Monday seemed real excited to see him again. The St. Petersburg show was announced less than two months ago and quickly sold out, prompting a second show at 10 p.m.

I bought tickets for the 7 p.m. show as soon as I heard about it, eager to see a comedian like Ansari at an intimate venue like the Mahaffey Theater, where he has performed before (he took his most recent stand-up special to venues like Madison Square Garden), and also to see if Ansari would address any of the #MeToo-ness of this moment.

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Here's what did, and didn't, happen at Monday's show:

• We couldn't use our phones. My husband and I joined the gaggle of millennials swarming outside the theater around 6:45 p.m. Monday. Before we set foot in the venue, we were instructed to place our phones in Yondr pouches, fabric pouches that locked the phones inside and had to be unlocked with a magnet after the show. This is becoming more common at comedy shows (so attendees don't spoil jokes for those who haven't seen the show yet), but Ansari quickly made it clear that he also enjoys the lack of distraction. A "Can't we all just put the phone down for 10 minutes?" plea was met with lots of applause from the young crowd.

• Ansari was very funny. The name of the show made it clear it wouldn't be a totally polished standup set, but rather a show at which Ansari could test some of his latest material and see how the audience reacted. Frankly, I was surprised by how good it was given that disclaimer. Ansari, clad in skinny jeans and a leather jacket, had total control of the excited room. There were many grab-my-husband's-arm-because-I'm-laughing-so-hard LOLs, many moments when Ansari had to pause to tell his next joke because the audience was clapping, many silly songs and voices from the energetic standup.

• He told jokes about the Trump era. The show organizers asked that we don't go into very many details about Monday's set, but I can tell you that Ansari's hour was very of-the-moment.

• No one talked about #MeToo. Ansari didn't address the babe.net allegations, directly or indirectly. His set didn't shy away from politics, but it didn't go near the #MeToo movement. It's hard not to wonder whether it would have, had Ansari himself not been the subject of that article.