Still In Ireland
The show opened yesterday to an audience of twenty-two bewildered Irish folk. The first act was a little quiet, and my theory is that it takes most of them a little while to adjust to our accents. One the New York team, some of my friends are still completely confused whenever and Irish person opens their mouth. Anyway, by the end of the show, we were getting a lot of good laughs, and at curtain call they clapped even after the lights went back down.
Of course, today might be a different story. I'm not sure how many tickets are gonna be sold, and we have the second cast going tonight. One of the actors seemed a bit nervous last night about the show today, and if there's a small house, that's going to be pretty bad for the actor. I'm sure we'll get through it, though.
Review Time: "Ctrl+Alt+Delete"
CAD is another comic on the internet about Zany Roommates, much like Penny Arcade and about 500 other comics, 1000 movies, and god knows how many TV shows. And, uh, the play that I'm doing right now.
Some books, too, I'd bet.
To be honest, I used to actually read this comic for a long time before I realized who stiff, overly worded, and lazy the writing is and how static the art was. At the point in the series where a fat woman pulled of her disguise to reveal her actual sexy body to a protagonist who was about to dump her because of her weight, who then decided to stay with this crack pot woman, I looked back on the I'd read, and was turned into a pillar of salt. The art honestly isn't that bad, but the faces all tend to look the same. And now that I've checked back recently the zany protagonist has built a female robot for the robot he made out of and Xbox to fall in love with. Really, just stay away from this thing.
Instead of a link to CAD, I'm giving you a link to a better comic with the same setup of Zany Roommates:
Rob & Elliot (http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/)
Part of the reason R&E works and CAD doesn't is that R&E isn't mired in a shitty story that drags on endlessly, like an asteroid through a pretty boring looking part of space. Rob and Elliot have a basic story behind them that is used nowadays just to setup jokes with established characters. But only now and then. Most Rob & Elliot comics are completely unrelated to the story, or any form of continuity. There was one a little while ago that turned Tom's final speech in the "Grapes of Wrath" into a sales pitch for teleporter ray guns. Give it a read, especially if you like the Zany Roommates setup so much that you actually read CAD.
Of course, today might be a different story. I'm not sure how many tickets are gonna be sold, and we have the second cast going tonight. One of the actors seemed a bit nervous last night about the show today, and if there's a small house, that's going to be pretty bad for the actor. I'm sure we'll get through it, though.
Review Time: "Ctrl+Alt+Delete"
CAD is another comic on the internet about Zany Roommates, much like Penny Arcade and about 500 other comics, 1000 movies, and god knows how many TV shows. And, uh, the play that I'm doing right now.
Some books, too, I'd bet.
To be honest, I used to actually read this comic for a long time before I realized who stiff, overly worded, and lazy the writing is and how static the art was. At the point in the series where a fat woman pulled of her disguise to reveal her actual sexy body to a protagonist who was about to dump her because of her weight, who then decided to stay with this crack pot woman, I looked back on the I'd read, and was turned into a pillar of salt. The art honestly isn't that bad, but the faces all tend to look the same. And now that I've checked back recently the zany protagonist has built a female robot for the robot he made out of and Xbox to fall in love with. Really, just stay away from this thing.
Instead of a link to CAD, I'm giving you a link to a better comic with the same setup of Zany Roommates:
Rob & Elliot (http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/)
Part of the reason R&E works and CAD doesn't is that R&E isn't mired in a shitty story that drags on endlessly, like an asteroid through a pretty boring looking part of space. Rob and Elliot have a basic story behind them that is used nowadays just to setup jokes with established characters. But only now and then. Most Rob & Elliot comics are completely unrelated to the story, or any form of continuity. There was one a little while ago that turned Tom's final speech in the "Grapes of Wrath" into a sales pitch for teleporter ray guns. Give it a read, especially if you like the Zany Roommates setup so much that you actually read CAD.