Monday Requires Comedy
Why, yes, that is a turtle eating mashed potatoes.
The week is only beginning, so we can all use a few chuckles to get through this. (Even if the Easter Bunny is making this a short work week for us all.)
So, you might want to mosey on over to Wunderbar this evening (say about 8pm) for a night of laughter from some Edmonton funnymen funny men funny guys comedians.
A lovely lineup of hilarity awaits you at the “Delicatessen of Jokes and General Funnery,” including Jon Mick, and Highwire Films’ Arlen Konopacki and Mike Robertson. And Wunderbar is home to Whyte Avenue’s finest beer selection.
If that combination doesn’t cure your case of the Mondays, well, it’ll be Tuesday soon enough.
Movie Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Okay, so if you have a functioning head with eyes in it, and have spent any time downtown in the last three weeks, you will have seen the poster for The Time Traveler’s Wife about a million times.
I know this isn’t everybody’s cup of tea. And yes, I know that District 9 opens this week, and that this is the INTERNETS and the INTERNETS like District 9. But we had passes to The Time Traveler’s Wife.
And also, we need to use this as an opportunity to discuss something with you guys. After seeing Eric Bana on the Tonight Show earlier this week, promoting this movie, Jeff and I have become Eric Bana extremists. The guy is pretty much the funniest thing around, and we had no idea that he had a somewhat legendary background as a comic actor in Australia before becoming a movie star. He’s totally the new Billy Zane. But a better actor. Sorry, Billy Zane. :(
Now, like all ethical journalists, we are aware of our biases, and will try to account for them. However, you must always remember that Samsonow and I have a strong pro-Bana stance that may unknowingly be reflected in our work. Yes, E.B. has made a few questionable movie choices, but come on, you animals, he’s only human. If you cut Eric Bana, will he not bleed? And how many revered Australian sketch comedy shows have you guys been in the cast of? That’s right, none. Now take a knee.
Anyway, much as I wanted to see the Time Traveler’s Wife, I was unavailable last night. So my good friend Tess volunteered to go on my behalf and jotted down her opinions. And I’m not going to lie, she makes it sound better than I expected. I love Eric Bana enough to be straight with him, so I will admit to not having very high expectations for this.
From roving reporter Tess:
“Adapting a book into a movie is always a precarious task – especially when the book is complicated, which I’m assuming The Time Traveler’s Wife is.
Usually I prefer to see movie versions of books I HAVEN’T read, so I don’t go in with preconceived ideas of what I think the movie should look like. This way, I can take the movie at face value, and usually enjoy it much more. I went into The Time Traveler’s Wife knowing very little about the story, and I think it actually worked against me this time.
When the movie was over, and I was listening to the conversations around me, I heard things like, “It was very close to the book” and other positive remarks. Discussing it with my friends who HAD read the book, they understood details of the movie which kind of confused me, or left me wishing for a more in-depth exploration. (more…)
Stifler’s mom is coming to Edmonton
Image: The Comic Strip
This is the kind of news you can use.
Jennifer Coolidge (Stifler’s mom in the American Pie movies) is going to make you laugh at The Comic Strip for 3 nights next month.
(Thanks to @cdnchick for tipping me off over on Twitter.)
What? I can’t be thinking about serious stuff all the time.
Whyte people like jokes
This story could test my “funny” skills, so I’m either going to wow you with my humour or play it totally straight.
Read on about Edmonton’s newest comedy club to see which way it goes.
