Chopschticks, with Sir Laugh-a-lot
Another guy making Beijing better is Rich Robinson, who for the love of humor organizes the Chopschticks comedy shows here and in Shanghai. There were two hundred people at icehouse on September 17 to see John Bush and Tom Shillue, the two comedians Rich flew in from the U.S. (Tom equated being denied sex by a particular sweetheart in high school with him carrying two increasingly swelling mailbags – with every letter in them addressed to her and eager for delivery.) Kudos to Rich and Cherry for making the project a success: check www.chopschticks.com for the next show.
To my horror and delight, Rich bought me a martini: horror, as my last icehouse martini had “notes of kerosene”, delight, as I rarely get free drinks and this one was good. Take this as a sign from Buddha that icehouse is poised to be, as many expect, a major player on Beijing’s high-end bar scene.
After the show, a few of us took John and Tom on a tour of some Beijing nightspots. It’s hard to beat the spacious rooftop deck at Suzie Wong’s on a cool fall evening. Funnily enough, my colleague Lige arrived and remembered Tom from a show he did on 72nd Street in New York – five years ago. If that feat of memory wasn’t enough, she recalled three of his jokes, two of which he had told us at the show just a few hours earlier.
(From Beijing Boyce I, first emailed on October 6, 2005)
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