My girlfriend and I went to see Shut Your American Piehole; or Discount Family Values at Brave New Workshop last night. Hilarious!

I saw the last BNW show, Martha Stewart’s Prison Jamboree, and there were five or six people that performed that one (including Lauren Anderson from Five Man Job, love her!). I was a little unsure about a whole show with just Caleb and Katy. But I shouldn’t have been. They were great.

I love Katy McEwen. She’s a little bit Molly Shannon and a little bit Cheri Oteri. Actually, possibly the best moment in the show was when she put the smack down on a, shall we say, “overenthusiastic” audience participator.

My favorite sketch started out with Katy pretending to be Dr. Laura and I’m ashamed to admit that I recognized her intro to the show to be dead on. Caleb followed with detailed description of why Dr. Laura is a hypocrite complete with Dr. Laura’s internet porn pictures. The scene wrapped up with some white boy rap and Katy throwing down a beat.

The interesting thing about the 7:00 Saturday show (or at least this particular 7:00 Saturday show) is that the average audience age appears to be about 65. Seriously, I think the only other person within a decade of our age (late 20s) was an uncomfortable looking guy whom we guessed was a student entertaining his visiting parents.

So imagine all these, shall we say, mature folks singing “Dr. Laura is a skaaaaank” along with Katy McEwen.

If you haven’t seen it, next weekend is the last weekend in the run before the holiday show, Manger Crashers; or Three Wise Guys With A Pack of Camels starts. They strongly encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance as these last shows are close to selling out. Also, you can get 2-for-1 tickets with your MPR membership, although I don’t think you can get that discount when you order online, so give ‘em a call.

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