Here are a couple of links, and a couple of quotes from people we didn't sleep with.
Here is a story on the great Doodie Humor
Here's a Review of Doodie #2
Spend some time with local sketch agitators Doodie Humor, and you'll realize how bland and cowardly most "cutting-edge" comedy really is. Bounding on stage joyously pelting each other with ethnic slurs and cries of "Freakin' retard!" the members of this inspirationally fearless group announce Doodie Humor: Number 2 as a liberating stomp through the fields of political incorrectness. Their sophomore outing – another well-planned medley of live and videotaped elements – takes especial aim at religious intolerance and racial profiling; watch for a pet dog whose translated barking uncovers sentiments that would make him right at home on David Duke's front porch. Unlike most of what passes for satire on the left, the Doodie oeuvre is predicated on an understanding that the only way to rob institutionalized hatred of its destructive power is to embrace the truth that it can also be really, really funny. The crowd particularly adores comedienne Michele Simms, as she's simply without equal in playing brain-damaged ninnies who beam with pride every time they get to utter another thundering inanity. What a marvelous retard.
OrlandoCitybeat.com said... "4 out of 5 stars!!!"
Ink19.com said... "The crew that had a Fringe hit last year with Doodie Humor is back with a second round of wince-inducing sketch comedy...They just keep joyfully throwing the humor hand grenades and it's up to you to either take the hit or get out of the way."
Review of Doodie Humor 3: To the Turd Power
Got time in your schedule for three Fringe shows but money for only one? See Doodie Humor 3: To the Turd Power, a blissfully impudent romp that earns its title by being exponentially funnier than the festival standard. Once again, Todd Feren’s mouthy, multiracial band of sketch comics show how inadequate terms like “biting” and “on target” are to describe satire that shoots a flaming arrow straight into the heart of hypocrisy. From a “war presidency” gone berserk to a horror-movie clip that equates blackness with lycanthropy, there’s nary a duff moment in the show — though if I had to pick a favorite, it would be a beauty-pageant parody that lacerates the media’s obsession with pretty, missing white girls. Standing out amid a Fringe schedule burdened with safe bets and lazily churned-out ego trips, the Doodies are positively heroic in their devotion to delivering the truth at 60 laughs per minute. Long may they dump.
Here's another Story about Doodie Humor 3
It's been too long since Orlando had a fully functioning, regularly performing sketch-comedy troupe, but having the part-time outrage squad known as Doodie Humor perform at two Fringes in a row is close enough.
This year, Todd Feren's funny and fearless agent provocateurs take aim at “the media,” though how that conceptual thread is going to be integrated into their latest medley of live and prerecorded yuks remains to be seen. From the description of one planned vignette — “a president wages war on the sun” — it sounds as if a year away from the stage hasn't dulled the act's edges.
It seems that every time we write about these guys, we find ourselves pointing out that their bent is more satirical than scatological. Why? Because it would be a shame if even one wary Fringe-goer passed them up on the basis of their kindergarten-level name or on the lackluster track record of in-your-face political incorrectness in general. Feren's minions, in contrast, remember to be daring and smart, in the process pointing up how lame most other “risky” comedy really is. (Oh, so you say you're on drugs and hate airline food? Do tell!)
On a sad note, Feren claims that Turd Power represents a swan song of sorts for the group — in its “current iteration” at least. Whether he's as serious as a heart attack about this farewell, or only as serious as Cher, it still behooves you to grab a healthy-sized handful of this Doodie.
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