This gets my vote
Yesterday at a luncheon, a woman with a mic was asking rhetorically, “What do we call that thing where you do something again and again, expecting a different response?” I leaned over to the woman next to me and said, “Voting.”
One thing I would vote for again and again is “Candidate Confessions — a 2016 Cabaret,” a show about all the “major” 2016 presidential candidates (it’s tough to call them “major” when they’ve even included Jim Gilmore) that the folks at Second City in Hollywood were nice enough to invite me to. If you think it would be hard to make Donald Trump and Ted Cruz look even more absurd, this show will change your mind. As a cabaret, the show is built around original songs, almost all of them funny and unexpected. I especially enjoyed Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz competing for who could be more “Latino” (with Bush trotting out his Mexican wife), Chris Christie finally getting to sing his version of “Born to Run,” and Carly Fiorina whipping up a new spell for us. Big, big highlights: a spot-on Ben Carson (courtesy of Choni Francis) so funny it was hard for me to recover from; a closing number (also by Francis) that alone makes the entire show worth seeing; and anything that prominently featured Sarah Oliver (especially that Fiorina bit).
If you’ve got an hour or so and prefer your laughable politics to be on stage, go see this.
February 21st, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Interesting that apparently not a single Democrat was lampooned. But, hey, it’s the Republican Party that is the party old retreads full of goofy ideas. Strange…the scent of mothballs and Ben-Gay appear to be wafting over from the left side of the stage these days. Thanks, but I can watch people mocking my choice for leaders on the network news for free
February 21st, 2016 at 8:41 pm
Not at all. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were made very big fun of — as was Bill Clinton, of course, as a hanger-on desperate to get back into the White House. Nobody was left unscathed.