Fun!

Elli and I (and edgylesjr and vivalabonita went to dinner at Tower last night. Afterward, we saw Wayne Brady's show at the Convention Center Auditorium. The man is funny!

The warm-up comedian left me cold. His jokes were all about how marriage makes him a hero, but his reasons (and yeah, I get they're jokes, but I don't find them very funny) were that his wife and child are driving him insane and making his life a hell, so his putting up with that makes him a hero. Then he hit the Jesus joke, where the punchline, in my opinion, did not make up for the overly-long preachy part. And don't get me started on the homophobic content in his last joke. For all I know the guy's not anti-gay, but the way the joke was constructed it didn't sound like it.

Fortunately, Wayne Brady made up for all that very quickly. The show was structured much like Who's Line is It, Anyway?, with improvisational songs and scenes based on audience feedback. Very good stuff, including the moment when, in his opening rap, the badly-spelled "Salubrious" caused him to stop and say "What the hell?" and then make the joke "I say what the hell/thanks to the white guy who can't spell," or something reasonably close.

All in all, a nice night.