Step Up or Step Aside

Thanks to my ever resourceful wife, the whole famn damily went to see Christopher Titus at the San Jose Improv last night. We used to watch his show faithfully a few years ago before Fox cancelled it. He also had a special on HBO a while back that was hilarious. Titus is to dysfunctional families what Foxworthy is to rednecks. It took us over an hour to get down there. San Jose is like LA these days, except for the fact that the dot com crash improved the traffic remarkably. The improv is a dinner theater, and Dara had made reservations. We were worried that being late would leave us in the back, but they seated us at the center table next to the stage! The warmup act was very good, and Titus was great. There had not been any real advertisement of it, and I suspect he could fill up a larger forum. However, he was working on a completely new spiel, so he was trying various things out. He said that if he ended up going off in a direction that wasn't funny, it was because it wasn't funny, and he was using this show to see how people reacted. The result was that for people like us who were pretty familiar with his regular spiel, it was all new material. Great show! Afterward, Dara, Kyla, and Garrett all bought tee shirts and had him sign them. He chatted about the show and what worked well while he was signing and leaving a little message on each tee shirt. Dara's says "Peace". Kyla's says "Be Fierce". Garrett's says "Get Help."