Night at the Comedy Club [Facebook of Revelations]

I went out to second city today, and it was rather good.

Here is a brief sypnopsis :
Second City presents its 60th revue, Facebook Of Revelations, and it's one of the troupe's strongest in years. The sketches hit different notes, offer a great mix of physical comedy and smart writing and always end up in unpredictable places. The opening number skewers jukebox musicals, while the finale sends up technology and evangelical religion. In between are surprises about war, robots and relief pitchers.

Ok, so fine, I have had good moments in toronto. I may just be back in the future, who knows. Its a bit grubby, the cash divide is prominently displayed and real estate agents are a pox, a pox. But watching the show made it all apparent that this city is somewhat mine, a social awareness barometer, because I actually got all the jokes. Or I have been watching way too much canadian cable.

Review/Full breakdown of the cast :
The scenario: It's the sketch everybody was raving about at intermission on opening night, but it wasn't the only one that hit a sublime chord. Director Bruce Pirrie kept things fresh, throwing plenty of stylistic changeups at the audience. There was straight spoof, as in an opening number that took dead aim at We Will Rock You, called Safe Bet: The Musical, a "commercial" for a musical made up of lame plot contrivances that are really just excuses for people to sing Boomer hits like Jack and Diane and Wanna Be Starting Something.

There was mind-f---ing of various sorts, including a trippy time-loop sketch about an H.G. Wells type inventor (Annan) and a villain (Adams) with a time machine that only goes back two minutes per use.

And there was even some clever politically-tinged pathos -- as when dad Montgomery has to explain to the kids (Adams and Lauren Ash) why mommy went to Afghanistan to fight. "Why mommy go there?" -- "Because we have a moral obligation" -- "What does that mean?" -- "Nobody knows what that means!"



Yeah , so tis time to bloody leave already ! AAAAAH. One more advertisement of Vanilla coated mini wheats and I am going to afghanistan.