Weird, old, and one of the greats

A review from the Globe and Mail of the October 14, 2006 concert in Convocation Hall in Toronto, Canada.

by Carl Wilson

Earlier this week, Randy Newman, the leading political satirist of his generation, was a guest of Stephen Colbert, part of the fertile satirical crop of the 2000s. Quoting from It's Money that I Love, the song with which Newman opened his set in Toronto on Saturday night, Colbert jibed, "Who wants to hear a guy pretending to be a rich celebrity?"