Brewery Follies

So we drove out to the Brewery Follies last night. It is a vaudeville type show that is (as they describe themselves) nasty and wrong. On their website they rate themselves as PG-13, but I'd have to say more like PG15 or 16 or even R. Some of the stuff is out there and pretty risque. We were all warned before hand, but in the middle of the 1st act a family of 5 left.

It was good, but not great. I'm not sure it was worth $15. It was definitely a neat experience. I laughed lots, but a number of the jokes seemed forced like they were really searching for something sick to put into a skit.

The venue was cool, an old brewery that was built in 1863. Most of the brewery was just as it was back in the days that it was actually brewing beer.

A couple of my favorite skits were the dueling nostrils and the dyslexic doubletalk. In dueling nostrils two of the actors stood onstage with small colored flashlights in each nostril and they played the song "Dueling Banjos" on a tape player. Along with each pick of the banjo they alternated turning on the flashlight in their nose. One actor followed the first banjo, and the other, the second. It may not sound all that great, but it was hilarious. In dyslexic doubletalk a guy went off on a huge spiel about a bunch of stuff, but switched the first letters of multiple words in every sentence. It was both amazing and funny. This of course allows you to talk about many things you couldn't normally talk about since you're not actually saying the words you're talking about.

All in all I had a good time, I just wish it had been a little cheaper. Though I really feel bad for those people who spent $75 for 30 minutes of stuff that offended them. (why not stay around for 2 hours of offensive material?)