Friday, October 06, 2006

Life, examined - Arts - The Phoenix:

Solo performer Mike Daisey has been described as a cross between Noam Chomsky and Jack Black, Spalding Gray and Robin Williams and — my favorite — “Jackie Gleason meets Franz Kafka.”

One of the privileges and delights of interviewing and writing about such oversized personalities is having the above sort of fun describing them. I will add “the love child of Chris Farley and Susan Sontag” to that list, but Daisey inspires delving deeper.

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