Monday, June 09, 2008
hottest show around
Last night at Fairview Heights, the air conditioning was out, so it was easily eighty degrees in the club; and even more on stage. I was asked to emcee, which I agreed to do because of my Louisville trip coming up this week. I'm very pleased with the job I did, even though the crowd was a little stiff; most of them were drinking non alcoholic water and fanning themselves with the table tents; so they were kind of a tough sell. In any case, I had one or two decent comments between comics and nailed the announcements. Tommy Johnagin headlined the week, so he did about 27 minutes at the end of the show; which had to be unbearable with the heat and humidity the way it was but he did well and I pitched the Kilo-Diabetes foundation tickets (I didn't check, but I doubt we gave away many tickets, because an un-air-conditioned comedy show in the summer isn't all that tempting, even for a dollar).