{"id":3638,"date":"2012-06-22T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2012-06-26T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T22:14:10","slug":"jon-lovitz-comedy-act-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/06\/22\/jon-lovitz-comedy-act-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Lovitz’s comedy act a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen him on Saturday Night Live<\/em> and followed his career trajectory in over 30 really bad motion pictures (anyone remember Rat Race<\/em>?), but not many of us have thought of Jon Lovitz as a standup comedian, never mind a piano-playing, singing one-man show comedy act.<\/p>\n

In his recent performance at the Alix Goolden Hall, Lovitz won over a modest crowd with a standup act he\u2019s only had a few years to master since getting into live comedy later in life (his beginnings were in writing for TV and film, then acting).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Focusing on the age-old topics of religion and political correctness, Lovitz pulled no punches in the converted church at Victoria\u2019s Music Conservatory. (It\u2019s funny how a lot of performers at the hall comment on it being a church, even though it\u2019s no longer a functional place of worship. Once a church, always a church, I guess.)<\/p>\n

Blasphemous as his act was, Lovitz holds this likeable quality that rises above his womanizing, self-defacing, hate-everyone-equally persona. We know he\u2019s joking and we know he\u2019s got a big heart, and that helps us to laugh along with him as he sings songs that tease his friends about being gay, when they\u2019re not. One number, about fellow comedian Bob Saget, was titled \u201cGay Bob\u201d and was sung to the tune of \u201cHey Jude.\u201d Pretty funny, but you had to be there and get the full context.<\/p>\n

Lovitz didn\u2019t dig into his bag of Saturday Night Live<\/em> tricks, most of which have been forgotten with time, but he did spend a lot of time talking about his Jewish-ness (\u201cI\u2019m not a Jew, I\u2019m Jew-ish,\u201d he joked) and his love of women (his alleged and X-rated run-in with the Octomom had the crowd howling).<\/p>\n

Lovitz didn\u2019t wear out his welcome on stage, although a lengthy section about religion was a bit of a yawner, and he ended the show strong with his piano numbers. His surprisingly strong voice carried goofy tunes roasting his friends and marvelling over the hilarity of certain sexual acts.<\/p>\n

In the end, Lovitz left the Alix Goolden stage haven given a different kind of sermon. The kind that preaches that everyone should stop taking themselves so seriously and start spending more time inside of Octomom\u2019s huge vagina. There’s lots to explore up in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen him on Saturday Night Live and followed his career trajectory in over 30 really bad motion pictures (anyone remember Rat Race?), but not many of us have thought of Jon Lovitz as a standup comedian, never mind a piano-playing, singing one-man show comedy act. In his recent performance at the Alix Goolden Hall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}