JPK
06-20-2008, 05:36 PM
Hey all-
Jordan and Steve are Steve and Jordan, Respectively- has been extended and will run through July, on Fridays, 10:30 at the Del Close Theatre
In addition to the regular show, we will begin adding a 15 min set after the show with some new stuff. So even if you've seen the show, step on upstairs around 11:35 and show us what you like or dont like with your choice of boos or cheers.
Here tonight, then will be away June 27th but then back for more
-Jordan
Chicago Reader: Critics Choice
STEVE AND JORDAN, RESPECTIVELY Writer-performers Steve Waltien and Jordan Klepper execute a practically flawless sketch revue. Ambitious and original characters, creative blocking, caustic wit, well-choreographed physical humor, a stay-with-us pace, and carefully developed punch lines that pay off big -- all come together for consistent laughs. The two enter bickering like brothers and capitalize on that tension throughout, provoking and punishing each other. They exercise exquisite control in each scene, building on jokes by slowly revealing more information until the bit ends in hilarious chaos. A scene set in a very dubious hospital is, well, a clinic in how to toy with audience expectations. Waltien and Klepper say the show was partly inspired by Ricky Gervais's awkward humor on the British version of The Office; that influence is especially apparent in their funny, somehow sympathetic monologues based on disgusting people in the news. I'm still laughing about the one featuring Waltien as a Sudanese farmer who married a goat in 2006: while he babbles, he holds a rope that extends backstage and gets occasional, frisky yanks from Klepper. Open run: Fri 10:30 PM, iO, 3541 N. Clark, 773-880-0199, $14. --Ryan Hubbard .
Jordan and Steve are Steve and Jordan, Respectively- has been extended and will run through July, on Fridays, 10:30 at the Del Close Theatre
In addition to the regular show, we will begin adding a 15 min set after the show with some new stuff. So even if you've seen the show, step on upstairs around 11:35 and show us what you like or dont like with your choice of boos or cheers.
Here tonight, then will be away June 27th but then back for more
-Jordan
Chicago Reader: Critics Choice
STEVE AND JORDAN, RESPECTIVELY Writer-performers Steve Waltien and Jordan Klepper execute a practically flawless sketch revue. Ambitious and original characters, creative blocking, caustic wit, well-choreographed physical humor, a stay-with-us pace, and carefully developed punch lines that pay off big -- all come together for consistent laughs. The two enter bickering like brothers and capitalize on that tension throughout, provoking and punishing each other. They exercise exquisite control in each scene, building on jokes by slowly revealing more information until the bit ends in hilarious chaos. A scene set in a very dubious hospital is, well, a clinic in how to toy with audience expectations. Waltien and Klepper say the show was partly inspired by Ricky Gervais's awkward humor on the British version of The Office; that influence is especially apparent in their funny, somehow sympathetic monologues based on disgusting people in the news. I'm still laughing about the one featuring Waltien as a Sudanese farmer who married a goat in 2006: while he babbles, he holds a rope that extends backstage and gets occasional, frisky yanks from Klepper. Open run: Fri 10:30 PM, iO, 3541 N. Clark, 773-880-0199, $14. --Ryan Hubbard .