An evening with Whoopi Goldberg is everything you imagine it
to be and then some. She had not
made her way to the center of the stage before the entire place was on his feet
giving her a standing ovation. She
wasted no time by beginning with a funny riff on her love the word FUCK. She just loves it! Because it's so much fun to say--at
which point amid the cacophonous applause I shouted out "AMEN"! It was a very audience interactive
program. Her theme was
"Everybody's Angry". She
pontificated on the news, the current regime in DC--she began that series with
"I try to stay the fuck away from here!" and after the applause
weakened, added, "I don't know how the fuck you all do it!!"--the
difference between how genders use public bathrooms, her most recent attempt at
having sex, her great granddaughter's mastery of all thing technological, and
more. And she finished the
evening with a Q & A from the audience.
Her comedy was insightful, courageous and wise. She's every ounce as intelligent as she
is funny, and if I thought I loved her before this evening, I left in utter
adoration. She finished the
evening with a plea to bring heightened awareness to the slaughter of Albino
children in Africa.
The negative moment in the entire evening was the persistent
habit of the members of the audience that went forward to use the opportunity
to tell their own story before asking some half-assed question that was either
unrelated or some version of "Do you agree with me?" Of the 12 questions she fielded, three
deserved the light of day. How
hard is it to ask a famous person a relevant and interesting question that
gives them the opportunity to tell us more about themselves? I didn't pay to here someone else's
pathetic life story and find out if Whoopi agrees with your conclusion! Makes me angry--no wonder
"everybody's angry!" See!?
See how effective Whoopi was in her presentation?
And she wore a fabulous white shirt with a beautiful print of a Robert Mapplethorpe image on it. Classy!
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