Event

AN EVENING WITH LASAGNA CAT

One man lives with the burden of making the entire world laugh every day...its time we showed him just how much we care.

LASAGNA CAT was born when Zach Johnson and Jeffrey Max, the folks behind FatalFarm, found a really gnarly looking Garfield costume at a shop in Compton pre-2008. Quickly realizing their original plan to churn out a video a day was madness, and that straightforward live-action Garfield reenactments only prolonged the banality, they began using the comic strips as springboards for associative tributes. The resulting shorts are perfectly awkward, so funny they actually become funny. Combining Dadaist rejection of capitalism via appropriation of its iconography with the dogged persistence of bored 13-year-olds with a video camera, the duos sizeable output nearly matches Davis at his own game. The shorts hold up an unblinking mirror to their sources grotesque inoffensiveness, matching it with affection and beautifully executed gross-out effects. The series went strong through 2008 before going on extended hiatus, relaunching just this year with a sweetly invasive social experiment-turned-4-hour-knock-knock joke. Join us for an evening of meditation on a form as we watch Jim Davis deformed children pay loving tribute.