Comments on: Dame Edna: Live and Intimate in her First Last Tour http://www.saturdaymatineeblog.com/2008/11/dame-edna-live-and-intimate-in-her-first-last-tour/ Thoughts on theater in the Bay Area Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:09:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jolene http://www.saturdaymatineeblog.com/2008/11/dame-edna-live-and-intimate-in-her-first-last-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-723 jolene Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:04:44 +0000 http://www.saturdaymatineeblog.com/?p=1511#comment-723 Hey Mike, you speak vaguely but I'm guessing that it's the post-Prop 8 world that I think that you're referring to. The protest that I saw on my way to Dame Edna was a Prop 8 protest, one of the loudest I'd ever seen. Here's to hoping very very soon... The guy they called up from the audience when I saw it was also a gay man whose HUSBAND was in the audience. I've always hated insult comics after one made an inappropriate racist comment to me once, but I've never minded Dame Edna and found her to be smart in her satire. And so so (wrongly or rightly) funny. Happy Thanksgiving, Mike. :) I hope you have a good one. Hey Mike, you speak vaguely but I’m guessing that it’s the post-Prop 8 world that I think that you’re referring to. The protest that I saw on my way to Dame Edna was a Prop 8 protest, one of the loudest I’d ever seen. Here’s to hoping very very soon… The guy they called up from the audience when I saw it was also a gay man whose HUSBAND was in the audience.

I’ve always hated insult comics after one made an inappropriate racist comment to me once, but I’ve never minded Dame Edna and found her to be smart in her satire. And so so (wrongly or rightly) funny.

Happy Thanksgiving, Mike. :) I hope you have a good one.

]]> By: sfmike http://www.saturdaymatineeblog.com/2008/11/dame-edna-live-and-intimate-in-her-first-last-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-722 sfmike Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:52:47 +0000 http://www.saturdaymatineeblog.com/?p=1511#comment-722 I find standup comics, which is what Dame Edna is, disturbing, which is what they're meant to be. Saw her show tonight and left at intermission not because it wasn't fabulous but because insult humor isn't even remotely my style. Actually, that's a lie, it's very much my style but it's not something I believe in cultivating. Her first two victims-from-the-audience this evening were a poignant pair, a recent widow and a gay man who owned a bakery called "Lovely Loaves" in Livermore with his "husband" who was in the audience. The two were married onstage by Damn Edna and then, after not being able to get hold of any of the gay dude's relatives, they called the widow's daughter in New York at midnight. She hung up on them the first time around, but they called again, and ended up with an exquisite live moment. It was poignant and sad in ways that were not intended. I'm not going to be writing about it except for here. I find standup comics, which is what Dame Edna is, disturbing, which is what they’re meant to be. Saw her show tonight and left at intermission not because it wasn’t fabulous but because insult humor isn’t even remotely my style. Actually, that’s a lie, it’s very much my style but it’s not something I believe in cultivating.

Her first two victims-from-the-audience this evening were a poignant pair, a recent widow and a gay man who owned a bakery called “Lovely Loaves” in Livermore with his “husband” who was in the audience. The two were married onstage by Damn Edna and then, after not being able to get hold of any of the gay dude’s relatives, they called the widow’s daughter in New York at midnight. She hung up on them the first time around, but they called again, and ended up with an exquisite live moment. It was poignant and sad in ways that were not intended. I’m not going to be writing about it except for here.

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