Afterbirth: Kathy and Mo's Greatest Hits, now at the Second Stage Theater, gives us two extraordinary comedians, Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, in a variety of sketches with top-level comedy writing and brilliant performance - the kind that can only be achieved by many years of working in comedy and performing together. They each play a wide array of characters, accents, attitudes, ages, ethnicities, all with complete conviction. Jokes come fast and furious-- and none of them miss. This show is humor developed to its highest level played by two masters, and many of its characters, including Kathy as a drunken old cowboy in a bar flirting with a tipsy woman, will stick with you and bring a smile days later.
This is rare, superb, classic sketch comedy at its peak. They don't make better.
