- No events to show -“IT’S CRIMINAL! THE COMEDY (Getting People Off and Other Legal Fantasies)” is my live one-man show, a funny show about very serious things. An idiosyncratic travelogue through the criminal justice system by a journeyman criminal defense attorney (that’s me, Murray Meyer, Esq.), I’d like to take you inside the Los Angeles criminal justice system and have you see what I see. I’ll show you the courts, the jails, and the people I encounter daily in my mishegas job. I want you to see what it’s like for me, one ordinary Jewish bloke from Brooklyn trying to do good, make a living and be a mensch. I developed the material for the show at the Un-Cab Lab comedy workshop run by Un-Cabaret creators Beth Lapides & Greg Miller (www.uncabaret.com) Laurel Ollstein has been of enormous help in recent manifestations of the show. I perform it whenever and wherever I can.
COME SEE AND HEAR ME…
- dealing with sexy DA’s trying to send my clients to prison for life
- dealing with not very sexy DA’s trying to send my clients to prison for life
- dealing with judges who hate me
- dealing with judges who hate my clients
- dealing with judges who hate me and hate my clients
- dealing with juries who hate me
- dealing with juries who hate me and hate my clients
- dealing with my clients who hate me
- dealing with my clients who I hate
- dealing with my clients in jail
- dealing with jailors in jail
- dealing with clients who expect to be defended by the Dream Team.
- struggling to figure out why so many of my clients confess to the cops so quickly
- trying to remember to see the humanity in my clients
- trying to live with my own inner demons
- trying to figure out a defense where there is none
- trying to pick a jury made up of people that don’t assume my guy is guilty before they sit down
- trying to survive in a world of bullshit and violence
- trying to keep from going crazy in a system that is inefficient, unfair, haphazard and still is better than the known alternatives
- trying to believe that there are people who actually believe that bullshit about “presumption of innocence” and “fair trial”
- trying to have a life that is not consumed by the craziness of my job
- advising friends about getting off of jury duty
- trying to use my legal skills in couples therapy
- struggling to comply with attorney-client confidentiality