Wishful Drinking

There is no underwear in space. At least that's what George Lucas says. And Carrie Fisher gets to send u this strange discussion in her new one-woman humor act, play, confession, therapy session with the audience. Oh, and there's her life growing up with show parents - Eddie Fisher, whom she calls Puff Daddy and jokes about his obsession with Chinese women, and Debbie Reynolds, the dancing, singing, gay-icon phenomena who turns out to be just your average crazy southern mom. Throw in headline grabbers like Ms. Fischer's mental health treatments, two divorces one to a gay man, and a flowchart of all the wives, ex-wives, and a few of the children connected to her parents Hollywood style and you've got a strangely funny and sad tale of using humor to cope with tragedy. She even has the brave ability to take hurtful coments, like a blogger referring to her weight gain as changing her into an Elton John impersonator, and weaves it into her act, along with a very strange love-letter proposal from a Boston audience member. As she shuffles around stage (Carrie just can't strut which is a good thing, making her more real and relatable) in her pajamas, robe, and sparkly flip flops, she periodically plays with the crowd, opening up the talk to questions about the dead friend she found in her bed, chatting about Hollywood divorce trivia, and getting a guy up on stage to frolic with the Princess Leia image. And that is where the best laughs are, when she frolics in the everlasting burden of being the human behind the fantasy that captures many a lonely geeks libido. There are Pez dispensers, a sculpture of her in the bikini give view to a completely shaved valley view from behind, soap-on-a-rope, and a sex doll that you can't really have sex with since it's rather concrete. But her take on how Lucas was explaining why there wasn't underwear in space is just hilarious! Couldn't have made up such an absurd conversation. And is a weird way she takes what could haunt some actors their whole life and turn it into comedic fertilizer, growing laughs as she dons her infamous wig and recites the famous R2D2 hologram speech, something no therapy can every erase from her memory. Lucky for us.