It was a great show. This and the Saturday holiday show It's Christmas Goddamnit! have been two of my favorite shows of the year.
The Best Actor In Town rides the fine line of mocking straight while simultaneously engaging in grounded committed performance. The sketches were great and playful, some melodramatic, some over-the-top gross, all wonderful. My favorite was this weird stylized dramatic family scene where they were playing with this unspoken, strict, formality which if anyone violated it they got slapped.
Jo, Jeff, Brian, and Devin played a variety of different types of characters, some of which I hadn't seen them do before. It was surprising and, for me at least, resonated so much. Brave, experimental, go-for-broke comedy that I found so engaging.
It's always fun to see talented friends perform, it's inspiring to watch creative people do something new and exciting, something ambitious and a bit dangerous. Really great work by some really great folks.
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