This past Saturday I took my girlfriend out to see Lewis Black as he swung through town. You may know him from The Daily Show (with Jon Stewart) and his segment "Back in Black".
The first thing he reminded us of was that as Canadians - outsiders looking at the US - if we don't look at the US and think that they are completely insane then there is something seriously wrong with us. I don't think that he will encounter much resistance with Canadian audiences on that topic.
Black covered a wide variety of topics from the superbowl halftime show as a barometer of the state of affairs in the US - to MTV being the worst thing to ever happen to music - to gay marriage - to Jewish Biblical interpretation - to lack of US leadership - as well as a number of amusing digressions along the way.
Fun stuff. And as a special treat after the show he stuck around to sign autographs and have pictures taken by fans. So we got in line and shook his hand and got our ticket stub signed - and even got him to record our new outgoing voicemail message.
Have a listen :-)
Andyway - I need some sleep so I'll leave this post at that.
andre
OMG, that is the BEST message evAr!!
Posted by: derek at March 21, 2005 11:12 AM