THERE WERE PRESENTATIONS from members on the Government side and the Opposition.
Grammy Award-winning singer “Rihanna” was the focus of attention among several issues of the day.
Sounds like a meeting of the House, but it was not exactly that. It was the Nook & Cranny Bar, where politics and politricks have been the mainstay for almost three decades.
It was no different last Saturday when the curtain was raised at the Ann Johnson Auditorium, St Gabriel’s School, for the 2012 season of Laff-It-Off.
The cast comprising Peta Alleyne, Troy Special Harper, Chrispen Hackett, Toni-Ann Johnson and Leon Phillips used their poetic licence liberally ’cause Talk Cheap.
It was not side-splitting laughter from start to finish as was the case in previous years, but the cast brought the usual wit to the issues. And based on how members of the audience almost fell out of their chairs on several occasions, it was a good evening of comedy.
The segment from the Ellen “Degenerate” Show was one of the better pieces of the night and proved that “Bajans like bare C”.
“Rihanna” was the special guest and shared some of the things about Barbados with her international audience. That she used an adjective when asked for a noun notwithstanding, the many ways “C” can be used was well worth it. It paled in comparison to the performance of one of her hit songs, however.
Interesting take
It was only a matter of time before Minister of Education Ronald Jones and the “demons” in the island’s schools reached every nook and cranny, and the bar had an interesting take on it.
One of the more interesting things about a bar is how philosophical and full of advice people can get when they are inebriated. Hackett’s excitement at getting married to the women he was dating for all of three months dulled in the minutes it took for his father to give him a premarital talk. After the logic that was perhaps a bit too sound for someone in the father’s state, the wedding was predictably abandoned.
Alleyne is the only one remaining from the old crew and she was in fine form, especially in the scene from the Bay Garden in Oistins.
The fish and beer were secondary to her experience in the bathroom, which started with the long wait to get in and the necessary dance to keep things in and ended when she realized she had done what she had waited so long to do.
It was non-stop drama as she told of the bathroom that couldn’t lock, all the way to the automatic sensor that controls the flush.
Troy Special took the term “baby father” to a new level, and the audience loved every excruciating minute of it.
Those are just some of the funny things on the menu at the Nook & Cranny Bar this season – but can’t tell all.
