Portland with The Moth
This was in the Portland paper after my recent trip there with The Moth. A good review!
The ghost of Garrison Keillor, indeed, hung over the preternaturally easy nature of host Tom Shillue, although he looked a bit more like a cross between a slender Dick Gephardt and Conan O’Brien. Shillue’s humor was broad Caucasian-ethnic: peppered with jokes about how Jews don’t know the difference between Protestants and Catholics, how Italians talk close and funny. I liked him. He was, like Bill Cosby and Ellen DeGeneres and very few others, a humanist comedian un-full of anger. He also reminded me of mid-century Hollywood’s idea of a virtuous small-town mayor, albeit a Catholic one.
