Old Time Comedy Night

In David Devenskys picture the audience is shown an audience We are looking at a picture of them and they it turns out are looking at a picture of themselves At the same time the suspicion grows that these purposely gross caricatures of the average movie spectator are looking past their dark and flickering images to something else As in The Lickerish Quartet there is the uneasy feeling that the actors and audience have changed places and these parodies of ourselves facing us looking straight into the camera are looking through the screen and seeing us and that they find the spectacle hilarious Donald Richie MOMA