L1LY T0ML1N - AND TH4T'S THE TRUTH (1972)

This week's storytime comes in the form of a dramatic dialogue between a creepy five-year-old girl and her new neighbor, both played live by Tomlin. The wayward narrative, and authentically dark moments, seem to leave the audience uncertain of when to laugh. This is a benchmark in the comedic album category, masterly delivered by a true innovator in stand-up and performance. As literature, this work stands alongside the sinister surrealist folk-tales of Leonora Carrington and the paranoid, obsessive dispatches of Spalding Gray...this is a work about the uncomfortable truths of artifice.

Dreaming on it...