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The Rob and Mark Show
By Anthony Venditto on Saturday, April 7th, 2007
A sense of foreboding crept into my testicles as I stumbled into the Parkside Lounge ten minutes late to do this review and realized I was the only person there. By the time The Rob and Mark Show started there were about ten of us. Things looked grim, but then a showbiz miracle happened:
They went into their opening number, a book club review about a book neither of them had read, and it…was…Hilarious! The moment Mark sang about the shit fairy,”the shit fairy comes and replaces your poo” I was hooked.
A little ways into the show they told a horror tale of working a club where they had to follow a duo of tranny magicians. The big finish for the trannies was pulling a seemingly endless line of knotted scarves out of their post- op vagina/things and flatly announcing: “TaDa!” It was at that point I began to realize this show was gonna rock. And I was right.
To me, Rob was reminiscent of a young Lewis Black sans the maniacal anger. He kept things grounded and moving- even while breaking our hearts singing about his hetero man crush on Jack Bauer.
Mark reminded me of a mix between Dick Smothers and Tom Hanks’ character from the movie Volunteers. An awful movie, but I mean it as a compliment. At one point in 
the show he does an impersonation of Wilfred Brimley hawking muffins filled with his own leche de hombre- Now that’s just good clean fun.
They also had a couple of special guests. The first was Todd Womack. One thing he did was an impersonation of a monkey coordinating an elaborate theft of a shiny spoon. The bizarre thing is the voice he used for the monkey is exactly how I always imagined a monkey planning a heist to sound. Creepy huh?
Their second guest was Rusty Ward. He came up on stage to read us some mad libs he had filled out with his crazy Mother. Then he was interrupted by a call from his daughter. It didn’t take long for the scene to deteriorate into a domestic disaster between him and his ex wife, only you know- in a really balls out funny way.
The easy witty banter between all the guys was great and really showed that they genuinely enjoy each other and love comedy. Even when their jokes fell flat they were able to laugh at each other and themselves, or in Womack’s case, just blame the audience for being lame.
They stumbled, they had miscues, they talked over each other, but it all added to an air of camaraderie and gave the show an intimate raw feel that I find lacking in a lot of live performances. It wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t polished, but it was real and it was laugh out loud funny. I’d go to see them again in a heartbeat.
For future dates and venues check out the link to their website.
Also hear some of their songs on their myspace page.
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April 7th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
wow!!! what a hilarious review!!! laughed my balls off!!!!
April 8th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Thank you guys for the kind kind words. I’m really glad you enjoyed what we will still call “Our Private Party.”
-Rob
The Rob and Mark Show
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looks like i gotta get there
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