Adult Entertainment

Adult Entertainment is Elaine May's hilarious spoof on the porno industry and Robin Byrd's TV show, the morons involved in it, and what happens when they start to read books and plays. It's written in May's unique comic voice, and her daughter, Jeannie Berlin, has the great dead-pan delivery of her mother. We start with comedy and segue into real humor as the porn stars delve into literature. Although the show should be tightened into an intermissionless piece (one that director Stanley Donen could take even further), as performed by a fine comic ensemble, most of it is so funny that it is indeed one of the best comedies in town.