Usually I only blog when I have something to say about being on stage but... Last night I looked at my clock and realized I had time to go over to the Funny Bone and watch Henry Phillips. I'm a pretty big fan, I've heard him on the Bob and Tom show a bunch of times (back when I was allowed to listen to it at work). Anyway, the show was really good, Chad Huff MC'd, a comedienne, Alex House, did a guest spot, and the Feature act was really good. Sadly I never hear his name clearly, I think it's Tim something. I'll hopefully go back and buy his shirt (15 bucks) and cd (10 bucks) tonight (combo, only 20 bucks) and then I'll know. Anyway, after the show, the five of us; chad, Alex, Tim, Henry and myself stood around the bad and shot the crap about comedy in general, writing styles and racism in comedy. As a bald white guy, I always kind of expect people to think I'm a racist, but no one has ever really said anything like that or implied it at all. I'm not sure if I 'blogged' this story before; but I'll type is again; When I was working in Fairview Heights with Pat Dixon, I mentioned this to him, and he said something like "No one's going to think you're a racist when you say 'Yay, me!' on stage".
I wish I could talk about racism on stage; John Roy (who won the Star Search comedy competition) is a bald white guy and he has some fantastic anti-racism bits and jokes. It could be argued, however, that anti-racism humor coming from me might not be taken too seriously when my closer is "the blackest thing about me is that I date fat white girls".