Steve Allen Theater, at the Center For Inquiry West (Los Angeles, CA)
Mary Lynn Rajskub performs her latest one-woman show at the Steve Allen Theater. She gained fame as a cast member on HBO's classic sketch series Mr. Show, and now stars as Chloe on Fox's 24. Other acting credits include Punch Drunk Love and The Larry Sanders Show.
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We enjoyed Mary Lynn Rajskub's stories and delivery very much, and appreciated her honest observations. It felt like she was sharing herself and her life in a very intimate, funny way. We were expecting a one-woman "play", but it was more like stand up. Good stuff, we feel like we know her now and want to invite her over to hang out with us. Very funny!
I wouldn't call this a one-woman show. I would call it Mary Lynn trying out new material, most of it seemingly undeveloped and off the cuff. The worst part was the interminable description of some B movie she watched while pregnant; the best part was the end piece about how she came to love her baby. But that only happened in the last five minutes. For the majority of the show, I felt like I was being held hostage.
Her unique sense of comedy may not be for everyone, but we were rolling. This was our second time seeing her and she was hilarious.
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Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress, artist and comedian. Rajskub's most notable role is CTU tech analyst Chloe O'Brian on 24, which she joined in 2003 at the start of the show's third season. Her character was a hit with viewers and critics and was one of the few cast members to return in the show's fourth season. After being a regular guest star for two seasons, Rajskub became a main cast member in the show's fifth season. She is now lead female, with top billing second only to Kiefer Sutherland. Rajskub and Sutherland appeared briefly as their 24 characters in a 2007 episode, "24 Minutes", of the FOX TV animated series The Simpsons.
She became one of the original cast members of Mr. Show, and also had roles on The Larry Sanders Show, Home Movies, Veronica's Closet, the US version of The Sketch Show, NewsRadio, and 24.
She appeared in Kelsey Grammer's The Sketch Show on Fox Television, King of Queens as a character named "Priscilla", a waitress at a pirate-themed kiddie restaurant in an episode of NewsRadio ("The Secret of Management"), and in numerous films including Mysterious Skin, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Dude, Where's My Car?, Man on the Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, The Anniversary Party, Firewall, Little Miss Sunshine, music videos for Beck and Weezer, as well as portraying a blind girl in the film Road Trip.
She is also a skilled guitar player and was part of a comic duo (with Karen Kilgariff) called Girls Guitar Club. In 2006, she made a cameo appearance in "Partings", the 6th season finale of Gilmore Girls, where she played a troubadour looking for her big break.
Rajskub has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program. She has an educational background as a painter, having attended the San Francisco Art Institute.
She has been nominated twice for a Screen Actors Guild Award; once in 2005, and again in 2007 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
She guest starred on Flight of the Conchords episode "Prime Minister".
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