Tonight I went to see
Otis Lee Crenshaw at the Comedy Festival. Crenshaw
(played by comedian Rich Hall) is meant to be a hard-drinking country singer
from Tennessee. He just got out of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, and was
married six times, each time to a woman named Brenda. On stage, accompanied
by two musicians, he performed several amusing musical numbers (think Kinky
Friedman at his funniest), singled out members of the audience for harrassment,
and threw out line after snappy line. I was struck by the amount of
improvisation he did on the fly, all flawlessly (incorporating an audience
member's name and profession into a song, complete with rhymes, and
doing a song about various elements of contemporary Australian culture).
Crenshaw's show was lots of fun; this is a show well worth seeing.