Last night, was our anniversary date night - we went to see Jim Breuer at JMU and it was surprisingly great (the show, not the date - i knew the date would be great!).....you might remember Jim as Goat Boy on SNL - hilarious!
or in the movie Half Baked - stupid funny!
I sort of expected the show to be half lame - Jim hasn't been on tour for 5 years, he's a good bit older than his SNL days, and let's face it - this is a college comedy tour. But I swear, he was HILARIOUS!!!It's weird, cause although I know Curtis & I weren't the only older people there, it felt like Jim's stand-up was more geared towards us, than all the party kids there. His act was some what of a lesson to these kids - he was telling them what they'd have to deal with as they get older and move on through life (where we are now, duh). Jim's married & has 3 daughters & he doesn't get high or drink any more - he explained how important it is to do what you love, even though as you grow up, you're told over & over how important your younger years are, and how you to need to study hard to get a good job, so you can make lots of money, blah, blah, blah...how schools today are cutting out the creativity of kids & focusing on good test scores. He talked about having good morals, being a good person, not worrying about what material possessions you have, resisting temptation - and all of this was done with jokes - it was so freaking cool!
There were still quite a few drunk frat boys in the audience that tried to be heard throughout the show....but honestly, Jim's best stuff was when he was improving off of the audience - he had no problem keeping them in check & it was soooo funny! the outside corners of my eyes hurt by the end of the show, from me wiping my tears away so much....it was cool to leave with that "wow, that was great" feeling!
Curtis & I saw Dave Chappelle in DC (Dave's home town) when we lived up there - my birthday gift to him one year. And he says he'd really like to see Harland Williams too - that he saw some of his stand-up on TV, and it was pretty funny....and I guess that just leaves Guillermo Díaz.
That's cool, there will be many, many more date nights to come!
*thx to my brother cj & my sis in law katie for watching the kids - they had a blast with u guys!
2 comments:
Sounds like you guys had fun. I love that movie!! "I'm not a man, I'm a fish...where'd that come from?"
We used to constantly quote that movie, especially since my husband reminds me of Jim Breuer. He always looks stoned, he's not, his eyes are really sensitive to his contacts.
Thanks for the nice comment. My hubs liked that I thanked him over the blog, since a lot of his friends follow our blog.
what a great date! You guys are too cute!
I'll admit the only SNL I catch are the re-runs...I'm so dang tired all the time! :O)
But...my hubby & I are totally addicted to Last Comic!
...danielle
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