Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride
At the beginning of his eponymous Broadway foray, "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride," the self-styled insult comic promises a catharsis, which seems like an obvious setup to soon mock the forlorn theater geeks sprinkled among an audience predominantly there to see Ross unleash the "Roastmaster General" persona he's cultivated over more than a quarter century of televised potshots at dais-trapped celebrities. But, it turns out the joke is on all of us. While Ross doesn't completely abandon his sophomoric shtick, it's also not the heart of his show, which has an unexpectedly big one. [more]
