Jerkology

Any show that starts out with the Safety Dance followed by Beat It (complete with dancing by the director), is all right by us. pH productions' Jerkology opened at the Stage Left theater last night, and since the Bastion loves jerks, we were there.

Highlights from the show included an over-the-top discussion based around the old Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore tongue twister (we preferred Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers, but Sally was quite impressive), how to handle finding out your friend is adopted (hi Josh!), and lots of short transition sketch bits ending with someone saying something jerky over their cell phone - to their grandmother, friend with cancer, or wanna-be mother. While we really loved the sketch involving plenty of near-vomiting, it reminded us a bit too much of Waiters who are Nauseated by Food from the Dana Carvey show.

The show runs through the end of July, Thursday nights at 11:00 PM (don't worry, the show's only an hour, so you can make it to work on time the next day if you don't over-imbibe due to the theater's BYOB policy).

-Jen Bacher