World Champion in Toronto
Last night after a horrid defeat at volleyball Dora and I rushed off to catch Judah Friedlander at Second City. The showed kicked off with John Dore who was pleasantly more entertaining live than he is on his TV show. Highlight of his set came when he asked the audience to heckle him and Dora obliged by telling him his TV show sucked – to which he agreed and saved his pre-planned material for someone else.
Judah comes out playing the part of World Champion. He is the best at everything and chicks as well as 10% of men can't keep their hands off him. More than that he's better than YOU at everything. A big part of the show is audience interaction. He finds out what people do and then tells them why he's better. For the majority of the show this played out really well. Towards the end it did start to drag out. Seemed like he was looking for one more good round of banter before he packed it in.
If you didn't catch the show last night, he's doing two more performances tonight which are sure to be equally enjoyable. A warning though, if you aren't into fart jokes or dry humour, as the girl in the front row who Judah ended up ridiculing, you won't enjoy the show.
Right after the show Judah came out to the front of house to meet and greet with people. Liam and Dora had a chance to talk to him and he was very personable, sharing details about the locations where 30 Rock is shot and telling us that there actually isn't much room for improve on the show because it's so tightly written, but that they do give everyone a chance to contribute their own stuff on occasion.
The new season of 30 Rock starts Oct. 30th.