Make me laugh!

[webcowgirl]

We went tonight to see I, Lear, a two man comedy show (one act) currently playing at Trafalgar Studios. During one scene (a bit from The Cherry Orchard or some other hateful Chekov play, they're all the same), the actor was stomping around hunched over, pretending to be an old man, stumping around with a cane. He then fell over and attempted to push himself off of the stage with his cane ... and the tip broke off. It wasn't staged, you could see the fresh wood where the lovely object had snapped. As he lay there rocking like a tortoise, the other actor came over to complete the scene by helping him up (by his cane), and said, "You've really twatted it up this time!"

I swear I have never heard anything so rude come out of an English person's mouth in the whole time I've been here, and I just completely lost it. It was even better than when he spit his "teeth" out at the audience ("Just tic tacs! Witness the power of theater!"). I was also losing it because the snapped cane was messing the actors up because they were laughing at each other. J was a bit embarassed.

Overall this was a pretty fun show, light and silly and just my speed on a Friday. I'll write more about it on my other blog but I laughed so hard I just had to share it a little bit.

Other funny line:
Watson: One final question - why did he paint the doorway yellow?
Holmes: It's a lemon entry, dear Watson.

PS: Russia is bombing Georgia, and instead all the news is about the Olympics. WTF?

Comments

[madda-gaska.livejournal.com]

You should've heard me a while back when a client came back to us with the same question that had been explained to them three times (and clearly, and in e-mail, and they said it was understood) previously. That would likely be somewhat ruder...

S

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

You hate Chekov?? :-0

The play sounds great, but I'm impressed that you've managed to avoid hearing us Brits yelling 'cunt' at each other - something a few other Americans have remarked on with some shock.

[reddragdiva]

BBC News only took an hour or two to replace the Olympics with South Ossetia as the top story.

[mabel-morgan.livejournal.com]

Russians invading a country everyone thinks is a state in the US vs The Greatest Spectacle of Human Endurance, Peace and Love hosted by the largest group of untapped consumers in the world?

I dunno, what's more important man. Like, there's going to be some very fast running...

Seriously though, China are going to be _pissed_ at Russia and Georgia if that war takes off. Money is on the Chinese ringing up Valdimir and telling him to cool his heals for the next two weeks. Security council permanent veto buddies do not fuck each other over.

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

Hmm, AFAIK "twatted" as an adjective means drunk, and as a verb, means to hit or wallop, so not rude at all? Means something different stateside?