My Monday became amazing as I jump-started my week with an evening of the Tim and Eric Awesome Tour at the Echoplex.The first thing I am thinking as I am waiting in line is how horrifying it is to be around so many fans of Tim and Eric’s avant-garde humor.It is scary enough if I meet someone who is a bigger fan of the show than I am, so I was quite terrified at being at a venue packed full of them.Want me to describe it or place it into context for you?I can’t, there is no such thing as context for Tim and Eric humor.Any of you who are fans of the show would understand exactly what I mean by this, if you love the Tim and Eric Awesome Show you are probably quite an unstable individual.This is both speaking from my own self-awareness and by observing other fans.
The show opens with DJ Dogg Pound, a self-parody of all things DJ who spouts of Neil Hamburger style jokes and then “remixes” them.He spastically warms up the crowd and then we find out apparently the Awesome Tour has been cancelled.A crew member at the Echoplex comes out to humbly apologize that Tim and Eric ditched the show.Of course the audience can’t take this Echoplex staff seriously because he is Bob Odenkirk, and he then suggests that a special Tim and Eric audience chant might revive the Awesome Tour – and the audience chant was apparently successful.
The rest of the show was a horrifyingly entertaining blur of recognizable characters
from the Awesome Show, including (but not limited to) David Liebe Hardt and his horrifying puppets, Pierre who reminds all of us to keep our meat ice cold, James Quall and his enchanting singing and charming stand up-routine, pizza, hotdogs, and merchandise thrown forcefully at the audience, and impossibly deranged sketch comedy.
I could have stopped going outside for at least the whole week and considered myself satisfied, but Tuesday followed up with Comedy Death Ray at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 
except they also unexpectedly threw in a David Cross!I’d seen Helms and Gould’s acts before at various other UCB nights, and they were as great as before but what stole the show for me Andy Daly’s caricature comedian.I’d seen Andrew Daly countless times at Asscat, the Saturday improve show at UCB, but here he pulled off this hilarious bit part of a comedian who never quite gets to the punchline.How could that be funny?Again, don’t ask me to place it into context!Go to the next Comedy Death Ray yourself and find out.
Having seen both Bob Odenkirk and David Cross unplanned, unannounced, one night after another, at completely different venues for completely unrelated events really made my week.It was only Tuesday and I was hit hard with the feeling that my week simply can not possibly get any better… but perhaps it will because I am seeing The Duke Spirit at the Troubador on Saturday.
There’s room for the following week to be on par with awesomeness too as there is the Crank Mob bicycle ride on the following Saturday, plus whatever inevitable craziness comes my way.Let’s pray I get a chance to fix the rear bicycle wheel I destroyed on my last Ride-Arc before 5/17.On the topic of bicycling, don’t forget to check out the Bikerowave in
That’s all for now but perhaps I’ll return because this blog will not write itself, nor will Emily because of the horrific CPA exam she has around the corner that has held her hostage from her continued Los Angeles adventures.
(I neither own nor took any of these pictures in this post).
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