"All young people need someone bad to look up to and I hope I can be that for you"
This is a recording of John Waters's stand-up material recorded on the road. Rather than a regular comedy stand-up it's a revue of his personal and professional life from his early life, his classic entourage including the immortal Divine, all the way to the present. It's filled with wonderful anecdotes and genuinely inspiring wisdom for artists or everyone really. But that doesn't mean it's not also hilarious.
Far from being a self-aggrandizing kitsch fest this is actually rather self-deprecating and gives a lot of love and credit to all the artists and people who have proven to be influential on John Waters's life, among them a quote particularly butch stripper who looked like Johnny Cash who turned out to be one of his earliest artistic influences.
This filthy world has the same mixture of irreverent dark humour and love for the weirdos, outcasts and underdogs that make his feature films so remarkable and enduring. It's oddly uplifting and inspiring. Even if you're not a fan of Waters's work yet you'll get something out of it, but of course the entertainment value is multiplied if you know the people he is talking about.
This is a recording of John Waters's stand-up material recorded on the road. Rather than a regular comedy stand-up it's a revue of his personal and professional life from his early life, his classic entourage including the immortal Divine, all the way to the present. It's filled with wonderful anecdotes and genuinely inspiring wisdom for artists or everyone really. But that doesn't mean it's not also hilarious.
Far from being a self-aggrandizing kitsch fest this is actually rather self-deprecating and gives a lot of love and credit to all the artists and people who have proven to be influential on John Waters's life, among them a quote particularly butch stripper who looked like Johnny Cash who turned out to be one of his earliest artistic influences.
This filthy world has the same mixture of irreverent dark humour and love for the weirdos, outcasts and underdogs that make his feature films so remarkable and enduring. It's oddly uplifting and inspiring. Even if you're not a fan of Waters's work yet you'll get something out of it, but of course the entertainment value is multiplied if you know the people he is talking about.