Thursday, July 29, 2004

JEREMY LION

If you already know the answer to the question “Who put the jack in jack in the box?” then Uncle Jeremy needs no introduction, and we’re assuming that, like us, you’ve bought your tickets already. If not, then you’re in for a big surprise. In fact, if you go down to Jeremy Lion’s Birthday Party today, you’ll never believe your eyes. For every one that ever there was should gather round for certain, because today is the day that you’ll meet famed children’s entertainer Jeremy Lion (and accompanying pianist Leslie) and your life will never be quite the same. Last year’s Christmas Party was a riot from beginning to end, and even required that extra chairs be brought into the tiny Pleasance Hut in which it was being performed. In these intimate surroundings, you are transported back to those awful children’s parties you suffered through in your childhood, when even then you were painfully aware that the adult standing in front of you may have once had ambitions of greater things, and had sadly failed the reach the giddy heights of his aspirations. Jeremy Lion is every entertainer ever witnessed, but without the professional standards, sadly without the balloon animals, and most importantly without the sobriety. The exploits of the Birthday Party are a closely kept secret, but for anyone who remembers the dissection of the snowman last year, you can be sure that Uncle Jeremy probably has something equally disgusting up his sleeve.