The Best Comedy Value In New York
Jan. 15th, 2008 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capLast night I went to the Ace of Clubs, a venue below the ACME restaurant on 9 Great Jones Street. For ten bucks I was able to watch a 2 hour plus comedy and talk show hosted by Lizz Winstead (of The Daily Show and Air America fame) that lampoons morning shows and 24 hour news networks: Shoot The Messenger. I got to sit in a live audience, in an intimate setting, laugh at jokes and videos about the latest in political crap and "infonewsment" and I didn't have to pay through the nose for any kind of two drink minimum or cover charge.
The first half of the show was an ensemble send-up of morning shows - Wake Up World, With Hope and Davis... the only six hour morning broadcast about everything! "A quarter of your day, spent the right way." IT WAS AWESOME. Lots of satire on a low production budget, but still very professionally done. And then the second half of the show is actually a serious talk show; Lizz interviewed political humorist Kate Clinton and they just chatted about the world and the primaries and all kinds of funny topics. Kate's closing answer to Lizz's question of "what would you ask the next president to do?" was: "Tax the church."
A-FUCKING-MEN!!
The first half of the show was an ensemble send-up of morning shows - Wake Up World, With Hope and Davis... the only six hour morning broadcast about everything! "A quarter of your day, spent the right way." IT WAS AWESOME. Lots of satire on a low production budget, but still very professionally done. And then the second half of the show is actually a serious talk show; Lizz interviewed political humorist Kate Clinton and they just chatted about the world and the primaries and all kinds of funny topics. Kate's closing answer to Lizz's question of "what would you ask the next president to do?" was: "Tax the church."
A-FUCKING-MEN!!