THE CODY RIVERS
SHOW
From Bellingham, WA - Performing Friday @ 9:00pm
We
first saw The Cody Rivers Show at last year’s
SketchFest:NYC. To say they blew our minds is trite, sure,
but accurate. But boy are they hard to describe. Here, why
don’t we let Lindy West from The Stranger in Seattle
give it a go. This is an excerpt from a recent
review…
“You know when you spend most of your life eating
chocolate chips and watching ABC Family Channel original
movies and crying (come on, sure you do), and then you drag
yourself outside for one little night of theater and it
turns out to be something so purely creative and wondrous
that it's like getting a hug straight from the Baby Jesus?
The Cody Rivers Show is like that, like a reassuring blast
of weird, delightful brilliance. Like maybe humans aren't
useless after all.
This thing isn't sketch comedy exactly, but it's not
standard theater, and it isn't funny so much as
mesmerizing: a bizarre, impressively choreographed,
breakneck montage of song, dance, puppetry, soliloquy, and
oddly dramatic vignettes. Some lines are straight-ahead
jokes: "No more 'that's gonna leave a mark,' no more
'tastes like chicken'... no more 'okay, I'll shut up now.'"
Some speak volumes in a single sentence: "I thought it was
funny at first, but I didn't know you could shovel so
fast." And my favorite bit of dialogue: "Throw this bag of
powder in my face." "What if it's poison?" "Exactly."
Exactly! Cody Rivers is clever, it's excellent, and praise
the Baby Jesus (hugs!) it's new.
Throw this bag of comedy in your face and be happy, before
another MadTV marathon comes along and restores your faith
in mediocrity.”
Yeah, what she said. Seriously, come see this.
cast
ANDREW CONNOR
MIKE MATHIEU
contact
ANDREW CONNOR
info@codyrivers.com
"The
Cody Rivers Show was absolutely mesmerizing. Forgive me:
I didn’t,
actually couldn’t, write anything down. From moment
one...no one could tear
their eyes away."
-Time Out Chicago
“The Cody Rivers Show was out of this
world--outstanding, absurdist,
experimental theater that paddles above the surface of the
sketch comedy
genre…Mike Mathieu & Andrew Connor would look
at-home on or off
Broadway.”
-The Apiary (NYC)
“There’s not a single predictable moment in
this 90-minute program of some of
the most original, inventive, and virtuosic sketch comedy
I've ever seen. The Cody
Rivers Show’s Mike Mathieu and Andrew Connor display
wicked imaginations,
superlative timing, and breathtaking physical skill in
these supremely weird
sketches.”
-The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
"This two-man group put on an astonishing display of
beautifully-crafted
absurdist sketch comedy, mixing in liberal amounts of
impressive choreography
and physical dexterity to create a very memorable
performance...You will no
doubt remember The Cody Rivers Show for quite some time."
-The Seattle Times - NW Source
“They seem like a cast of ten, not two.”
-Entertainment News Northwest
“This is the next generation of comedy.”
-The Whatcom Independent
“…they have the ability to make an audience
convulse uncontrollably without
anyone understanding why…A must see.”
-Only Magazine
“For the uninitiated, be warned that what the fellas
do onstage is unlike anything
you’ve ever seen."
-Cascadia Weekly
“…sketch comedy that's a cut above the
rest…”
-Vancouver Sun
"I see a lot of funny entertainment in the course of my
work. ‘The Cody Rivers
Show’ is the best that has come along in ... well, in
a long time."
-The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Everything
is painstakingly crafted but wildly unpredictable…It
is seriously
funny."
-The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“When Mike Mathieu and Andrew Connor turn the juice
on, the show is
electrifying…the energy coming off these two guys is
fantastic and audiences are
loving it.”
-Vancouver Courier
“…a bizarre, impressively choreographed,
breakneck montage of song, dance,
puppetry, soliloquy, and oddly dramatic vignettes.”
-The Stranger
"...it looks like the Cody Rivers Show just might be able
to save sketch comedy."
-Monday Magazine (Victoria)
"Two words: See them."
-The Bastion (Chicago)
“With choreography and dialogue sharp like a katana,
and transitions smoother
than a baby’s bottom, the Cody Rivers Show go well
beyond what is required of
them to make an audience laugh.”
-Only Magazine
“…mavericks of the absurdist sketch
scene…”
-The Globe and Mail
“Their highly refined skills include dance,
gymnastics, juggling, tumbling and a
general proficiency with precisely choreographed stunts
involving athleticism,
strength and daring. All these skills are at the service of
an eerie sense of humor
that goofs on the quirks of the human condition and the
everyday existential
quandaries of life on Earth. Intelligence and
unpredictability are a constant.
Connor and Mathieu are up there with such international
comedy stars as Bill
Irwin, Geoff Hoyle and the Blue Man Group when it comes to
good-natured and
hilarious weirdness.”
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“The sketch comedy duo of Mike Mathieu and Andrew
Connor creates and
performs intellectual, blazing-fast, highly conceptual
theater that's so bizarre and
charming and unselfconscious that you can't quite
comprehend what you're
looking at…Cody Rivers is brilliant.”
-The Stranger