Saturday, August 14, 2004

Day 8: 7 p.m. Time Slot

Show: Punk Rock Awesome
Die Roll: 14
Venue: Brave New Workshop
Company: Ferrari McSpeedy

This is a great group of guys for comedy. And you'll remember that I even though I challenged everyone to see some artistic works furing the fringe, I also said that it is important to go see some that are entirely just for entertainment value. Well this one is exactly that.

The two clowns that make up Ferrari McSpeedy are smart, witty, and brilliant clowns that manage to take esoteric knowledge and physical comedy and smash them together in a way that makes everyone laugh like giddy hyenas.

Essntially Ferrari McSpeedy is blends equal parts Ari Hoptman, Jim Lichtscheidl, and crack, and blends them up together, shaking in a dash of paprika for color at the end.

I can't criticize what I saw. It was pretty straight forward and entirely honest in its lack of artistic merit. However, the timing was good, the self-awareness was good, everything that happened was good. Too bad that it is the last of the "Punk Rock" trilogy by these guys. Let's hope they have at least three sequels, too.

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