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- SF Weekly March 12, 2008 (Molly Rhodes)
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- This sketch comedy show is about what those people in ties, khakis,
and button-downs really get up to at work. Many of the sketches embrace
topics that hit television shows like The Office only hint at — the
joys of online porn, masturbation, and cursing out your superior. Yet even
if it isn't exactly breaking new ground, the always-plucky Thunderbird
Theatre Company keeps the hour-and-45-minute evening engaging by injecting
its own brand of goofy fun. More often than not, the bits are amusing.
Christopher P. Kelly literally throws himself into roles such as a sexually
desperate co-worker and a bank robber-cum-aspiring playwright, and Jenni
Gebhardt and Faith Aeryn are both ridiculous and touching as the incarnations
of Super Mario Brothers and The Legend of Zelda, trying to cheer up an
office drone who gets through his work day only by playing their games.
It won't open your eyes to a whole new way of viewing your day job, but
the Thunderbird gang presents the office staples we know and love with
such verve and silliness that you will often find yourself chuckling along.
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