For those in doubt, Watts' shows are "100 per cent improvised" - and that's just how he likes it.
"There are definitely some trends that carry through from show to show. Sometimes I'll discover something in the moment [and] some shows can be a little more on point than others," he says.
"I don't think it's ever gone horribly wrong. Once every four or five shows, the whole thing resonates and it all comes together and ideas start happening and it's just this fluid creative exchange, so that's great."
Still confused? That's exactly what Watts wants. And it's amazing just how much comedy he draws from dislocating his audiences.
At a conference seminar in 2012, Watts confounded the conservative crowd in nine astounding minutes. He opened as a Frenchman, became a cliche-spouting motivational speaker, morphed into a British scientist, then an American rapper. He also delivered three songs spanning soul, country rodeo and electronic rave-rap on the fly.
By the end, the crowd was in stitches, and like many of his videos, including the hilarious comedy-rap songs F*** S*** Stack and If You're F****** You're F******, it's had millions of views on YouTube.
Watts, who uses sample pads and loops to craft songs during his shows, has a wide musical background to draw from, including studying jazz and stints in shortlived bands like Swampdweller and Synthclub.
"I have a pretty large range of influences, music from the '60s, '70s rock, R&B and Motown and experimental rock, all the way through to the '80s, new wave, industrial, pop, top 40, to '90s grunge, electronica, bohemian hip-hop, all that stuff, to modern trap music - it's all in there," he says. "If I hear it, it's fair game."
He's taken those talents to comedy website Funny Or Die too, with videos like Reggie Watts is Skrillex showing his appreciation for modern music.
"I start by paying tribute but mostly I just want to make it a cool-sounding track. Mostly I'm just thinking, 'Is this cool, is this fun to do something over?' Hopefully it is and I go for it."
Like his live shows, most videos - including his recent travel video series - are done without a script. Watts admits that makes him "inverse" from traditional comedians.
"If someone hands me a script I get really nervous because I have to remember it, and then after remembering it I have to act it," he says.
"I'm just terrible at memorising stuff. I just like improvising. More interesting things can come from improvisation than something that's written, at least for me.
"That makes for a better performance."
Who: Reggie Watts in Hello Humans
Where and when: SkyCity Theatre, Auckland, tonight.
