Will Franken in Gelf

Posted by Maximum Fun on 31st May 2006

Interesting piece on Will Franken, who you may remember from last week’s show, in the excellent Gelf Magazine.

A half-hour into it and he’s taken over his audience members’ minds. He has them singing, praising Jesus, and laughing at child murder. Characters and scenes, public service announcements and daytime television show segments rise up and fall away. Franken changes roles as fast as putting on a hat, and the effect is so narcotic that you can see why the SF Bay Guardian named him the Best Alternative to Psychedelic Drugs. The fuel of “Good Luck With It” is the disgust of an intellectual raised in a religious small town, combined with the dismay of a religious, small-towner living in a metropolitan Babylon. It’s more acting than stand-up, and no race, minority, nor pet cause is safe. It belongs in some London theater and it’s way too good for cable TV.

Actually, looking at the date, I’m wondering if the author came to a show that I performed in. Anyway, interesting piece.