My Brain Hurts (Thanks Alot Jeneane Garofalo!)

Last night I attended the live taping of Jeneane Garofalo's new comedy DVD at the historic Moore Theater in Seattle's Belltown district.   Having not really followed Jeaneane's career that closely, I kind of looked at the evening as a great time to hang with some good friends I had not seen in a while.   I did not expect to have my insides turned inside out from laughter and my brain feeling like it was pulsing out of my head.   I'm just saying Jeaneane rocked the comedy mic last night!

Beyond Jeaneane rocking I also found myself getting inside her head a bit.   I got it!   I GOT IT!   It is so weird to sit and have a moment of recognition of yourself in someone else and not really be able to forge together an idea of how to express that moment.   I am still reeling.   The only way to explain it is that for the first time I saw someone on stage try to express how their brain works when they are very self aware that it doesn't necessarily think along the same humanoid lines as yours do.   Her comedy and slant on life in general does not color within any box, it spurts outside the box and into another dimension.   I saw someone on stage being able to "not be able," to express themselves and do it in a humorous way.   That is a whole other layer.   To bring comedy out of your own frustrated and tired brain and lay it out there raw with the full disclaimer to yourself that you know the laughter is not necessarily coming out of a place of getting what you're saying but more in how you are physically saying it.

The more I try to describe my out of body comedy experience last night the more my brain hurts.   Thanks alot Jeaneane!  

PS:   Jeaneane, ya know how you think that Natalie Portman has never shit, that she was too good to defecate, well I have thought that about Dolly Parton for years.   I can never ever believe that woman even leaks a poot let alone drops a loaf, Dolly and Natalie are just too pristine for that kind of humanoid waste action!   (If ya get the DVD you'll get that inside post script!)   ;-)