Comedy
Lauren Ash (right) and Adam Cawley
Hot Lawyer @ Comedy Bar
BY Sean Davidson
Lauren Ash and Adam Cawley started out making up songs about hard-bodied barristers and ended up with Hot Lawyer — a sexed-up legal drama with the Second City vets (and real-life couple, don'cha know) as defense attorneys assigned to the same case.
It's been an enduring number since its debut at Bad Dog, and played well at the Del Close Marathon in New York last week. It will take another bow Friday at Comedy Bar, preceding Idaho's The Comedy Project and Chicago's International Stinger as part of the Toronto Improv Festival.
But first, a few questions for Ash.
Have you ever needed a lawyer?
No, not yet. People ask you that, as an actor, "You got a lawyer?" No. I don't even have a dentist.
Which lawyer is hotter — Ally McBeal or Claire Huxtable of The Cosby Show?
Oh Huxtable, totally. She was a career woman, right? But I always felt she was so witty and dry and confident. It made so much sense that she was a lawyer... She was no-nonsense and I loved the pantsuits.
OK, same question, Denny Crane on Boston Legal or Matlock?
I loved Matlock as a small child: we're talking eight or nine years old. Not that I ever found him that attractive, but there's something about an older man in a white suit with a southern drawl that I find very comforting.
What's your favorite lawyer show on TV?
Oh, I love Law and Order. I love the Jerry Orbach years, those are my
favorite. But and I'll watch any of them. Criminal Intent, SVU, I can't
get enough of those shows.
Best guess: What do the following Latin legal terms mean? Habeus corpus...
A dead person who makes hats.
Res ipsa loquitor?
An aboriginal person who is dealing with a sore throat and going to a naturopath.
Prima facie?
That'd be the face I make when I see a really skinny girl.
Have you ever read a John Grisham book?
Ohmigod, I did when I was a kid because I was so influenced by A Time to Kill. I read the one with Julia Roberts in the movie...
The Pelican Brief?
I don't know if that was it, but I took it out of Belleville public library and had to renew it five or six times. It was very thick and I was 13.
Complete this sentence: "The last time I broke the law was when I..."
... was drinking the streets in New York City. So, yesterday! [Laughs] We were drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade out of a paper bag! I wish I was kidding.
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