POSTED: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 3:46 PM
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| photo of a photo by Michael T. Regan by Patrick Rapa |
| Guess Rego's classic Roots pic comes up high when you Google it. |
Dancing Is Forbidden
I'd call the live version of
Adult Swim's long-running
Aqua Teen Hunger Force a pretty good time. It was kinda frantic, funny and nicely tailored to appease/taunt the home crowd. (Among the local references: the tasered kid, the
Flyers/Bruins series, the
Roots — accompanied by
Mike Regan's photo of the band from
City Paper's 2006 cover story.) It was amusing to see
Dana Snyder speak in the Masta Shake voice all night. Maybe it's his real voice?
Dave Willis' Meatwad was a rarer treat, but he did a lot of Carl. No Frylock. The evening included mini-sketches, songs, videos, a ton of audience participation, a couple
Squidbillies interludes (including a whole episode), a Meatwad impression contest, a guy who looked a lot like Carl eating cheesesteaks and too few/too underwhelming puppetry moments. But what can you do? These guys make cartoons, not a puppet show. more to the point: As a live comedy act they were pretty good.
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| photo | Patrick Rapa |
| Snyder taunts a fan. I forget why. That's Willis with the guitar. |
The show opened with
Schoolly D, who, of course, does the ATHF theme song. His old school rap (including "PSK") and perpetual crotch-grabbing went over just okay. A dude in the row behind me attributed the room's collective nonplussedness to its whiteness but I'd say it was our dorkness. And we had seats. Anyway, Schoolly's between-song banter was funny. He brought out
Joseph Stonestreet of
Blackstreet to do a vocal hook (and about a minute of
"No Diggity"), which was a nice surprise.
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| photo | Patrick Rapa |
| Schoolly. |
But the showstealer came at halftime:
Puddles Pity Party, which basically was a huge sad spooky clown who could sing. Like, really sing. The crowd was pretty much floored by that voice as he ripped through huge power ballads (including "
My Heart Will Go On"). He shared the stage some of the time with a creepy lady in a monkey mask who threw bananas (and banana pieces) into the audience. And when he came stomping off the stage, people freaked. He ended by dedicating a song to lonely dudes and planting huge make-uppy kisses on some of them in the second row. Just nuts.
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| photo | Patrick Rapa |
| Puddles. |
