Christopher Titus at the Tempe Improv

Sometimes when you are disappointed or down on something, such as my sentiment after driving away from the Marquee Theatre after the Cat Power show was cancelled, you just need to do something fun to get your mind off of it.

Tnarg coerced me to drive to the Tempe Improv despite my hesitations to have a good laugh. Christopher Titus was perfoming and although I never did watch his sitcom Titus, which was part of the Fox Network from 200-2002, I was pleased to be able to see him live.

Titus’ material concentrated a lot on family and relationships in his life such as going through a divorce, being raised by an alcoholic father, and even divulging his thought of committing suicide- which is how his mother and sister’s lives ended. And somehow out of these tragic, difficult subjects, Titus had a keen way to expose the lightness around the situations.

Convincing the audience that you need to be happy in life and nothing else matters… he even prompted men in the audience who were their with their significant others to excuse themselves to the bathroom- and if it wasn’t meant to be… RUN! He also informed the females in the audience that if they weren’t back within 10 minutes that they should know why.

Overall, it turned out to be a wonderful evening.