Zane Lamprey is Edutainment
The Pleepleus gobo. Drink!
Please watch him responsibly, though. If you can. Just don’t drive, okay?
Zane Lamprey is the star of Three Sheets and the upcoming Drinking Made Easy, two TV shows that explore the drinking substances and customs of areas all over the world. Zane and his posse are now touring the US as part of Drinking Made Easy, and they just passed through Boulder and Denver this past week. In fact, the Denver show will be part of the one-hour comedy special coming up on HD TV. Team Bonzuko went to the Boulder show (in the lovely Boulder Theatre) and enjoyed the comedic shenanigans quite a bit.
What was interesting about Zane’s show was the amount of educational material woven into the comedy. Sure, posse member Marc Ryan had some classic funny stand-up revolving aroun ddrinking and also his Southern roots; Steve McKenna’s bit revolved around the cult phenomenon that is his name (just watch an episode of Three Sheets to understand what it means to be so drunk you’re Steve McKenna’d), and also took a lot of inspiration obviously from Steven Wright. And they had a man-sized monkey (Pleepleus) who explained the rules of the drinking game to the already-quaffing crowd.
But when it came to Zane’s turn in the spotlight, it was almost like a, well, like a science and history lecture, but not at all as dreary as that sounds. He played on the audience playing along with the drinking game, and he was really funny, but he also, well, talked about different alcoholic beverages, their properties, their origins, etc. But he was funny! He calls it “dump[ing]
information (disguised as jokes) on you!”
Well done Zane and Co. Your Boulder show rocked, and we look forward to seeing your Denver show on the boob tube this fall. In the meantime, Three Sheets is in replays on the Travel Channel–check it out. ~Bonzuko
