Kevin Smith may not be a great director but he is great Q and A talent, among the greatest ever. He's parlayed his film career into one as a performing artist - how many other directors can claim that? Maybe Hitchcock, who was similarly chubby. He's been smart enough to share the burden, doing partnerships, with Ralph Garman, Scott Mosier and Jason Mewes.
I admit to wishing it was Ralph Garman rather than Mewes before going to this, but Mewes is good talent - he tells a very funny stories about having sex and is also gifted physically, which is important since Smith sat down most of the time, sweating considerably. The show went for around two hours - I've heard they can go on but their wives were with them so they probably wanted to rest for sight seeing. Nonetheless it was good value - props to Smith for making some local jokes, drawing parallels between Australia's convict history and Escape from New York, talking about Bananas in Pyjamas and The Wiggles (who used the stage earlier that day). The depiction of sexual acts created by Mewes was very funny. Thing started to drift a bit for me around the middle but it didn't last long.
The audience were very good value, except for the boofheads who would yell out things like "talk about movies". There was a guy who tried to pretend he was someone else whose name was called out to come up on stage - even though the other guy was up there; a chubby guy who kept talking about how he couldn't get a date; the recovering alcoholic who said he was inspired by Jason Mewes' struggle in between telling hecklers to f*ck off - actually all the people who came up would do this. Fan boys are aggressive.
The crowd was a mixture of fat Smith look alikes (men and women - there were a lot of fat people), tough looking guys with tats, tough looking chicks with tatts, skanky looking women, lots of guys in shorts. I was one of the few people to wear a collar and the colour white.
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