TV OR NOT TV
These six Hipsters really need their TV hook, because little else links their material–unless it’s the cynical premise behind the opening and closing scenes, where Linda Wylie plays an altruist who eventually cools out and becomes, yes, a selfish yuppie. Graduates of the Second City Conservatory, the Hipsters have apparently agreed to steer clear of any harsh satire (unless you count the takeoff on legal eagles who hammer out predate agreements–examples of love in our no-fault society).
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The one theater-inspired sketch is yet another hybrid. The Hipsters, in a hillbilly version of Romeo and Juliet by the very in Appalachian Theatre Company, here pick an easy target–bad acting–and keep it strictly Gomer Pyle. And where would we be without a smack at Elvis? This one, an Irrational Geographic video special called “The Search for Elvis–Dead or Bigfoot?” has explorers taking samples of the King’s footprints and catching a tantalizing glimpse of their elusive prey fleeing in a spangled white jumpsuit. The worst stab at comedy has CTA commuters, in shock over seeing a man run over by the el, agonizing over whether they should have called the police, the fire department–naah, they finally decide, it should have been Walter Jacobson. The Hipsters’ idea of real life is just as dumb as tube life.
