A few days ago Mrs. WeHaveCookies snagged us a couple of tickets to his Atlanta show at the Tabernacle this weekend. Yet further affirmation that I’ve picked the right grrl…
Somehow he managed to evade my radar (I don’t watch a lot of TV or standup) untill this past summer (much to Mrs. WeHaveCookie’s incredulous shock), when we caught his televised Carnegie Hall performance.
I was soon in physical pain due to sobbing, tear-streaming laughter and commiserative resonance for an individual who dares to get as physically worked up as I often long to regarding the mind-boggling stupidity that seems to be oozing out of the US’s every pore.
We later bought two of his cd’s for our epic road trip, one of which ended up being the Carnegie Hall show again, but it was still just as entertaining. I now know that I should not be allowed to drive while listening to his material. I become a bit of a road hazard what with all of the heaving guffaws and tear-blindness.
I’m very much looking forward to enjoying him from a nice immobile venue seat, especially with Nov. 7th looming so close on the horizon.
I saw him in the End of the Universe (which also happened to be Atlanta) era, and he was hilarious, surpassed only by Greg Proops. You’ll have a ton of fun.
That reminds me, I neglected to mention the tour title. “Red, White, & Screwed”.
Anaamika: We’ve been on a chocolate/peanut butter kick for a few weeks. “Cookie” is really more of a guideline than a rule. Most people would probably classify the last couple of concoctions as bars, or more fudge-like.
I don’t know, I agree with his stuff and I do think he’s hilarious sometimes, but the red face and flying spittle gets old for me after a short while. Also, he lost me when he went into a frenzy about some girl he overheard say, “I didn’t go to college… because of my horse.” Stupid, yes. But not the world’s most outrageous outlandish idiocy that has ever been uttered, which he tried to make it out to be.
The actual quote, for edification, was “If it weren’t for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college.” And of course you are entitled to your opinion, but I certainly haven’t been able to make sense of the statement yet.
He’s got some times when he gets too mad, yes, but he is entertaining as hell live at least once.
The show was awesome, even with the two drunk, conservative, Republican, blonde sorority drop-outs who heckled him from the balcony. The rest of the audience reacted with thunderous support for Lewis, who told us all to “Shut up! pause I can handle this one…” which of course led to further thunder.
One of the funniest moments of the night came from a joke that we never heard. He started setting up how much it sucked, on a Saturday night of all things, to lose an hour. It took a few moments for him to figure out that the cacophony of a response that he got from the crowd was hundreds of people telling him that we gain an hour tonight. At which point he walked away from the mic shaking his head at himself yelling. “Fall back! Fuck!”
We both wish that he would’ve told us the joke he’d written anyway, but oh well.
Seeing him at the Taft, a horrible venue, was enough to make me forget the cramped seats for the time he was up there. He’s hilarious, and he handles hecklers most expertly. At the show I saw, a group behind us decided, probably forty-five minutes into his set, to walk out, with a stinging parting shot of ‘YOU SUCK!’ as they were going out the doors. :rolleyes:
Lew paused, looked at the packed house, and responded with, “I think someone here disagrees with you.”
I’ve seen him live! I even got to meet him! Funny story.
He was at the Reno Hilton (now redubbed the Grand Sierra Resort) and we scored super-cheap tickets. They announced that he’d be in the lobby afterward to sign autographs. I didn’t have anything to sign, so when I got there I completely choked and took off.
Embarassing, to say the least, for a stagehand to choke. But come on! The man is like, my hero!
I really wish I’d had those IHOP coupons with me for him to sign. I bet he’d have got a chuckle.
Anyway, I think the poor guy was sick or coming down with something, because he looked like he felt like crap. Anyway, I’m hoping he comes through here again at a price I can afford (he came to Tahoe shortly after that but it was $60 a ticket!) because I totally want to see him again. And this time I’ll bring my IHOP coupons.
I saw him live. He came to my campus a couple of years ago. I have the white album, which is hilarious, but he didn’t impress me too much at the live show. In his defense, he came to a WI campus in winter and got caught in the worst snowstorm we had that year. I’m honestly surprised that he didn’t cancel. He was a couple hours late, but he did make it. Don’t get me wrong, I was definetly enterained. He was just understandably off that night.
Yet further affirmation that I’ve picked the right grrl…
Anyway, I’m hoping he comes through here again at a price I can afford (he came to Tahoe shortly after that but it was $60 a ticket!) because I totally want to see him again. And this time I’ll bring my IHOP coupons.