Summer of comedy
I'm finally trying to get out a little more this summer. More than my nightly bicycle rides. Saw Eddie Izzard. He's refining a new routine that will be filmed as an HBO special in November. He was very funny. Freely admits he gets his whole routine from Wikipedia.com. At one point he was talking about how great and wonderful the ipod was when partnered with a Macintosh computer. "Of course, you can do the same thing on a pc" he says, making the motion of a hand crank starting an old automobile.
Two or three weeks later we schleped waaaay out to the burbs to see Lisa Lampanelli (a.k.a., the Queen Of Mean). The town was very blue collar, and clearly suffering economic hardship -- lots of slums and boarded-up buildings. My first thought was she's going to fire her agent. Her opening line: What's with this town? My agent is SO fired.
We got cheap tix at the last minute, and she was really fucking funny (that's really the best description for her). She makes fun of blacks, whites, gays, Jews, Hispanics; pretty much everybody. And she does so in a way that's funny without really being mean. That's a fine line to walk, and she does it with aplomb. As long as you make fun of everyone equally, you're off the hook. No favoritism shown. If she's playing anywhere near you, check her out.
This Friday we've got tix to see Bill Maher. I'm not sure what he's doing, but I am SO looking forward to seeing him. I expect him to be his usual outrageous self, only more so when the cameras aren't rolling and he doesn't have to self-sensor for television. I'll let you know what happens.
Oh, and Ron White tix are on sale for September and going fast....
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