Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
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Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight?
1988 |
USA | Laughs: 1.4 (Broken Comedies) |
imdb: 7.4
First off, a few words to explain the title of this set: Whoopi Goldberg plays the character of her alter-ego Fontaine, a male junkie who, after going off drugs, is flabbergasted by what he sees when looking at America through sober eyes — hence
Why Am I Straight? That's the premise of the show.
I was blown away by Whoopi's comic mastery — body language, faces, voices… she had a lot of ingredients. Sadly, what this show doesn't have today is relevance. Most of the material was circumstantial, relating as it did to events few will remember or to people who no longer matter. I smiled at the Reagan impressions, but for me the show had nothing to trigger laughter, and for younger people it will be worse.
A beautiful document for the archives of comedy… but a poor choice if you're just after something to make you laugh today.
(Last viewed: December 2019)
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