Robin Williams sure knows how to "Working on New Material" !! The September Show is a beautifully crafted evolution of the June Show. Great bits with extra ornamentation, and new treats tossed in very generously, including great improv.
I saw his thus titled show in June, prior to the Olympics, and he had wonderful material about the preparations for the event and the power of modern China. Last night, the best of that stuff was entwined with the Aug 08 updates -- and new Olympic bits like doing a pommelhorse routine for us, right there on stage.
The recurring theme of the new micro-technology and conversing through texting was worked in with the beginning of the show. The club guy tells us all to turn off all recording devices and cell phones and such. Then Robie talks about not having recordings all over the place of a work in progress and a messy old white comedian flying all over the internet-- with a flash and a snap and a quick video taping. He talked about how we used to fear the age of Big Brother and now "we've entered the age of the Little Snitch." Loved that !! From the time of Big Brother into the Age of the Little Snitch !!
He did great material on the Palin. Based quite a bit on the dreary accent she has-- the smarmy goodie goodie voice. He used kind of Fargo Minnesota twang for that.
And this time he spun a lot more political humor into his routine and it worked really well. The audience was up for it and thrilled to have him crystallize our thoughts so well. He did pages and pages of the stuff and we were all eating it up and so happy to have him give us some laughs.
He did some Pope material. Spinning from being on a German TV talk show and asked about why did he suppose there was so little comedy in Germany? To which he couldn't help replying that one might suppose it could be that they had killed off all the funny people? And segued over time into the current Pope being sorta kinda having a Nazi background.
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