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Jun. 1st, 2002 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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fenchurch. Ticketmaster got me comp tickets and, mercifully, there was no opening act.
I notice that a lot of people like to yell things in the audience at Paula Poundstone shows. You see it in her HBO specials and we saw it happen here. She seems to take it in stride most of the time, sometimes to the point where Fenchurch wondered if some of them were plants. And, yes, she does talk about a great deal of the legal trouble and the rehab over the last year.
A strange thing I noticed about Paula's performance was that she had two "modes", as it were: New Material Mode and Old Material Mode. In New Material Mode, she seemed to be improvising and telling a story, though on occasion she got stuck or went off on a tangent. In Old Material Mode, it was as if some other comic from 1988 had possessed her for the duration of one or two jokes, as they were so well-rehearsed and progressed almost like clockwork, as they should be as it is, after all, old material. I think I prefer New Material Mode.
She told a lot of jokes about urine tests in the middle of the show, and I had to go pee. But I hesitated because I remembered that special where she caught someone leaving the show for that purpose, and because I was riveted.
I was seated right next to the stage ramp, and got to shake her hand as she retreated backstage, though with my left hand as she was holding a Diet Pepsi in the right hand, and though I requested specifically a high-five.
We went out for ice cream afterwards. And to Pei Wei beforehand. Pei Wei serves a really good, really hot curry.
fenchurch. Ticketmaster got me comp tickets and, mercifully, there was no opening act.I notice that a lot of people like to yell things in the audience at Paula Poundstone shows. You see it in her HBO specials and we saw it happen here. She seems to take it in stride most of the time, sometimes to the point where Fenchurch wondered if some of them were plants. And, yes, she does talk about a great deal of the legal trouble and the rehab over the last year.
A strange thing I noticed about Paula's performance was that she had two "modes", as it were: New Material Mode and Old Material Mode. In New Material Mode, she seemed to be improvising and telling a story, though on occasion she got stuck or went off on a tangent. In Old Material Mode, it was as if some other comic from 1988 had possessed her for the duration of one or two jokes, as they were so well-rehearsed and progressed almost like clockwork, as they should be as it is, after all, old material. I think I prefer New Material Mode.
She told a lot of jokes about urine tests in the middle of the show, and I had to go pee. But I hesitated because I remembered that special where she caught someone leaving the show for that purpose, and because I was riveted.
I was seated right next to the stage ramp, and got to shake her hand as she retreated backstage, though with my left hand as she was holding a Diet Pepsi in the right hand, and though I requested specifically a high-five.
We went out for ice cream afterwards. And to Pei Wei beforehand. Pei Wei serves a really good, really hot curry.
