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SPANDEX! - (REVIEW)

Fool Fest 2002
Sak Theater, Orlando Florida
By CARL F. GAUZE, INK-19 ARCHIKULTURE DIGEST

February 26, 2002

All right, class, let's review our Canadian geography lessons. Canada's main exports are lumber, wheat, nickel, and acerbic comedians. These Cowards, long time Canadian Fringe faves, once again brave the lower 48 for another round of Foolfest.

They're still deadly funny, but best of all, they have a completely new set of jokes. Ok, they re-did " Smack Grandpa", but it's so good you'll want to hear it again. There's lots of time to think out there on the lonely prairie, and long winters turn a man's thoughts to surrealism.

"Two Frigin's Guys" argue the limitary merits of Sid Caesar vs. Julius Caesar. Sure Julius conquered the Gaul's, but who conquered the Strip? And what of Zorro, high Lord of the Zoroastrians? HA! So THERE!

Building on this solid ice flow, the Cowards slip into cruise song stylists Hooker & Blow on the Christmas Cruise of the SS Old Folks, regaling that 60 something crowd with the sorts of songs you'd have to be trapped at sea to suffer through.

Persistent humor dogs the evening, coupled with Dr. Demento level songs - "Marne the Carney", "Hot for your Mom", and a Neil Sedaka request mailed in from a car wreck. Cowards are better than a beer filled Norse Jam fest-a-thon.

You might even consider driving to Canada to see them. But not till the ice breaks up.