So due to the weather, but mostly laziness, I haven’t been writing about any of the shows I’ve been to lately. But that changes right here, right now. Last night I saw Jenny Slate’s one woman show: “Jenny Slate: DEAD MILLIONAIRE” and loved it! Jenny is not only one of the host’s of one of my favorite stand up shows ever: Big Terrific (now at Cameo in Williamsburg), but she also appears on a lot of VH1 shows making fun of celebrities doing ridiculous stuff.
The show was based on “eccentric millionaire Jenny Slate’s ‘I’m Dead Now Party’” AKA her funeral. She has left 300 million dollars to her Bichon Frise and the whole world waits to hear who inherits the dog. The show goes back in forth between friends/family/Gloria Estefan talking about what Jenny meant to them, and Jenny’s video will. The characters in attendance range from her lawyer, Ruth Diamond Phillips, to her blind and stupid cousin Gina, to her nerdy niece Misty, and even Gloria Estefan makes an appearance. All of the guests are completely different, interesting and hilarious in their own way and are all performed by Jenny Slate. By the end of the show, we not only learn a lot about each of these characters and Jenny herself, but also we find out who the lucky new owner of the dog and the $300 million is!
The entire show made me feel like I was watching a really good episode of Saturday Night Live, but with just one sketch. Her characters were all hilarious and unique. I would recommend that everyone go to the next performance of “Jenny Slate: DEAD MILLIONAIRE” on May 21st, 2009 at 8 PM. It only costs $5! Also there is another show, BriTANick: The Infinity Prison, right after, which your admission also covers.
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