It brought to the stage a member of the audience, a young mother of three - including a seven-month-old - who proudly claimed, “no father, no man involved.” He closed with a riff on his signature SNL character, Leon Phelps, The Ladies Man. He promoted his many ongoing projects, including an upcoming spinoff for his supporting character in ABC’s The Goldbergs. Near the end, he did a silent mimed bit that reminded us also of his actorly chops. “I watched Kavanaugh in those hearings and thought: Wait, Chris, is that you?” He imaged a match-up between Kavanaugh and aged sitting judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “I wish my friend Chris Farley was still alive,” he said. “I don’t have anything prepared, I’m just talking,” he near-apologized. ![]() Off the cuff, he veered into the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. Role playing conversations throughout, he switched between voices imperceptibly, simply that good. He presents in a unique voice, warm, with a slight laid-back detached humor. Meanwhile, he observed, black people have no clue who he is, or why whites seem to think he’s interesting. He riffed long on being practically the only black person in the room, how white people confuse him with other black actor-comedians, how he plays off that. That would be - Detroit.”Įdging toward the political he suggested a slightly outlandish plan for encouraging people to get to know people of other races, with a smart little punchline that I’ll leave for you to hear the next time he’s here. Meadow’s material is planned, delivered with comfortable pacing. Somewhere in all this he took a more thoughtful swig, considered and said: “It’s not bad. Pointing around to the now laughing audience, he told us, “Don’t laugh. My kids (16 and 18) are definitely underachievers.” Meadows asked, “JADEN Smith? The Karate Kid? The kid with the hair? He made a bottled water company?” Meadows’ eyes widened and voice rose at each increasingly incredulous revelation. Someone called out: “It’s Will Smith’s company.” He suggested it was a clever gig, simply opening a tap, filling bottles and selling it as something special (again, paraphrasing). Long and escalating conversation with the audience ensued. I never drank water from a square bottle before.” Tim Meadows, with Wood Theater staffers Shelley Fairbanks and Emily Murphy this past Saturday night, Live in Glens Falls.įunniest riff in my book was when he opened the bottle of JUST water provided on his little stool, took a swig and observed, innocently: “Mmm. Know that I’m paraphrasing from memory: There are few things I won’t do, but sit in the front row of a standup show where note-taking potentially makes me a target? No way. ![]() “You all are a little sensitive about that I hear,” he opened, then admonishing - but where are the falls? It’s not exactly Niagara Falls here. In a show whose topics ranged from parenting teenaged sons to growing up in Detroit, modern politics, sex after divorce and his abiding appreciation for “weed,” Saturday Night Live alum and comedy actor Tim Meadows was generous, sharp, and at the best of times a wildly spontaneous stand-up comedian Saturday night at the Wood Theater.Ĭlearly he’d been warned that it’s GlenS Falls, with a definite S.
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