So sad to see Optimist International go. But it was still a good night for comedy.
GIGAWATT
Flynn was especially on last night. Mullaney, Maggie and Rob Cacy are doing a "prodigal son" scene — Rob's been gone for something like 10 or 15 years — when Flynn pops up and says "Surprise!" It turns out that Rob ran away on the day of his surprise 12th birthday party because his mother told him that they wouldn't be celebrating his birthday, so as not to spoil the surprise. So they waited all this time for him to come back. Charlie mentions that he's just an actor hired because he kind of looks like Rob's friend who has since died.
OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
Rhea starts a scene by calling herself "a dumb motherfucker," and Seth won't let her beat herself up. It turns out it's because Rhea left their baby in the car. "Don't worry about it," says Seth, even though he admits that he can't get the "hot baby smell" out of his car. "Besides, you made some Dead Baby-Finder very happy." (Bonus points for Doug Moe's portrayal of the Dead Baby-Finder.)
Terry Jinn had the perfect blackout line, a callback probably impossible to explain: he falls out of Huskey's Jesus's, um, vagina?, looks up at him and says, "I'm you!"
THE SUNSHINE GANG
The scene where Billy, Chad and Chris had to protect the grain elevator from Brian's ogre-like "granger," who stomps onto the stage throwing chairs about. Chris, an Eastern college boy, tries to reason with the Granger, who responds by immediately knocking him to the ground and stomping on him. "He got him right in the boys," announces Chad. Brian uncharacteristically apologizes for stomping on Chris's boys...it turns out he's not himself because his lady left him. "Ah," says Chad. "Those are misery chairs you're draggin' around. I dragged my misery chairs from here to creation when my [girl's name] left me."*
Later the Granger pulls off Gethard's limbs one by one so he can beat Chad with them, but Chad keeps shooting them out of his hands. Finally the Granger kills Chad, but Chad keeps complaining how uncomfortable it is to be dead and disrupting the scene. Gethard keeps chastising him for not staying dead, and they get into a fight. I love that the Sunshine Gang can get away with breaking every rule there is.
*probably a very innacurate paraphrase
...and I finally saw TREV & THE REV, which was hilarious. I wish I had a picture of Brian Huskey as a Buggles-era Trevor Horn, so I could make it my desktop.
I'll post Trillion and Dillinger highlights later...I've got to get some work done...
GIGAWATT
Flynn was especially on last night. Mullaney, Maggie and Rob Cacy are doing a "prodigal son" scene — Rob's been gone for something like 10 or 15 years — when Flynn pops up and says "Surprise!" It turns out that Rob ran away on the day of his surprise 12th birthday party because his mother told him that they wouldn't be celebrating his birthday, so as not to spoil the surprise. So they waited all this time for him to come back. Charlie mentions that he's just an actor hired because he kind of looks like Rob's friend who has since died.
OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
Rhea starts a scene by calling herself "a dumb motherfucker," and Seth won't let her beat herself up. It turns out it's because Rhea left their baby in the car. "Don't worry about it," says Seth, even though he admits that he can't get the "hot baby smell" out of his car. "Besides, you made some Dead Baby-Finder very happy." (Bonus points for Doug Moe's portrayal of the Dead Baby-Finder.)
Terry Jinn had the perfect blackout line, a callback probably impossible to explain: he falls out of Huskey's Jesus's, um, vagina?, looks up at him and says, "I'm you!"
THE SUNSHINE GANG
The scene where Billy, Chad and Chris had to protect the grain elevator from Brian's ogre-like "granger," who stomps onto the stage throwing chairs about. Chris, an Eastern college boy, tries to reason with the Granger, who responds by immediately knocking him to the ground and stomping on him. "He got him right in the boys," announces Chad. Brian uncharacteristically apologizes for stomping on Chris's boys...it turns out he's not himself because his lady left him. "Ah," says Chad. "Those are misery chairs you're draggin' around. I dragged my misery chairs from here to creation when my [girl's name] left me."*
Later the Granger pulls off Gethard's limbs one by one so he can beat Chad with them, but Chad keeps shooting them out of his hands. Finally the Granger kills Chad, but Chad keeps complaining how uncomfortable it is to be dead and disrupting the scene. Gethard keeps chastising him for not staying dead, and they get into a fight. I love that the Sunshine Gang can get away with breaking every rule there is.
*probably a very innacurate paraphrase
...and I finally saw TREV & THE REV, which was hilarious. I wish I had a picture of Brian Huskey as a Buggles-era Trevor Horn, so I could make it my desktop.
I'll post Trillion and Dillinger highlights later...I've got to get some work done...
