Review: An hour not enough for sassy Sommore
This article was published December 6, 2009 at 12:30 a.m.
There could have been some more Sommore Saturday night at Robinson Center Music Hall.
A full hour wasn’t quite enough blunt, brassy sass from the curvy, queenly comedian from New Jersey, joined by three other comics for her Sommore & Friends show. We would have gladly traded some of the Friends’ time. (Like Ghana native Michael Blackson, who bills himself as the African King of Comedian. Sure it was amusing hearing him end practically each sentence of his overlong set with mother-you-know-what in his charming accent. Perhaps the first 20 of 200 times.)
Sommore, known for starring in comedy specials on Showtime, HBO and BET and as a contestant on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, strutted out to Ester Dean’s “Drop It Low,” the blinding bling on her shirt, earrings and bracelets dazzling as she danced on the simple stage that featured just two stools — one she never used except as a beverage rest and one holding roses — and a microphone.
She started by thanking the crowd for giving her an excuse to dress up.
“I love shiny [expletive],” she said, proficiently prowling the stage in the highest of heels. “People don’t know your status. You can be lit up like a Christmas tree and be broke as a [expletive].”
Other subjects on Sommore’s mind, well at least the ones we can print here: A woman who auctioned off her virginity for money (“Every [expletive] in here wishes she thought of that first”); Tiger Woods’ infidelity (first reaction: “Thank you, Lord, it was a woman”) and Chris Brown losing his endorsements after pleading guilty to assaulting his girlfriend (“I hear Hawaiian Punch is going to pick him up”).
In addition to Blackson, Sommore was preceded by Darren “D.S.” Sanders (who pointed out that high gas prices do have an advantage — they lower drinking and driving: “You can’t afford to do both!”) and evening host TuRae (who explained why he loved his career: “Comedy is the best job you can have without a drug test”).
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