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I was at the taping for the Maron special back in April. Here's my dumb story. My wife and I had tickets in the front of the balcony. A block of seats in the front row opened up way after the tickets went on general sale. Was surprised as hell that they were available and nabbed them quick. Got there in plenty of time and took our seats. Since they were filming, they made a point of telling you to use the bathroom if you had to and to make sure you had drinks if you wanted them. A woman came in with a drink and sat in the seat next to my wife. She talked to my wife for a bit - had driven up from outside of Chicago just for the show, mentioned a few other comedians she liked, general small talk. She had a whiskey of some sort with her and seemed a little buzzed but didn't seem noticeably drunk or anything. Stage guy came out, said they'd be starting soon and reiterated their stay in you seats please don't be a dumb poo poo request, please cheer a bunch when Marc comes out, etc. The lights go down. And random girl apparently flips a switch and is now wasted. It's dark in the theater, fairly quiet, so the woman next to us starts doing bird calls. Not a loud sudden "WOOOO!" or a whistle. Bird noises. Huh. Show starts, Marc comes out, people (including the stranger) cheers wildly and he starts in on his set. I'm guessing it was around the 10 minute mark that the woman next to us is completely passed out - leaning forward with her head in her arms on the balcony railing. Drove from Chicago, came to the show, and passed out within minutes. At various times during the set she would alternate between head down on the railing and pulling her knees up to her chest and being passed out in her chair. At one point, the remains of that last drink get spilled onto her purse on the floor. Show goes on. Marc kills. As previously mentioned as a possibility - they was to re-shoot the intro. Stay in your seats please - pretend you're excited, etc. Lights go down, audience quiets down and it starts again. Only this time, the big round of applause as Marc comes out wakes our neighbor up. She looks around a bit confused, sees everyone clapping, Marc is coming on stage, and oh hey the show must be starting. She just starts clapping and woo!ing. For the reshoot, Marc came out, sat down and repeated the first few minutes of the set. Then he just stopped, that's a wrap, thanks for coming out, etc. People go nuts again, and I swear to poo poo the woman next to me looked so drat baffled. Long story short, the person completely passed out next to us is why I'm guessing that we're not in any of the audience shots of the special. Guess I should check it out to verify.
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Haverchuck posted:That's kind of sad To some extent, but self inflicted at least. Assuming hotel and gas - it likely cost her a few hundred bucks to be there. Another story about being at tapings, but some friends and I got a woman kicked out of the club just prior to the filming of David Cross' "The Pride is Back" back in 1999. Pro tip : Don't announce your intention to make a spectacle of yourself in a lovely attempt to get on HBO while waiting outside in line with nerds that are actually into the act.
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:Marc's Splitsider interview said he and the director purposely had no reaction shots of the audience during the special, though, so that's why you're not in any of the shots. This is pretty cool. Still haven't seen the final product myself, but like the idea. I just assumed I wasn't going to be in any shots since I was sitting next to a passed out person. If there's no shots to be in at all, all the better. Side note - caught Maria Bamford last weekend. Pretty good, though a lot of the material was included in Old Baby. There's something about thinking about how much my parents would loving hate her act that makes it even funnier to me.
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Sep 14, 2017 18:28
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Speaking of Stanhope: Another Bill Burr impression via Sean Rouse and Junior Stopka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCXWHw8p7es
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Megazver posted:So Gad Elmaleh's first English-language special is out and people are saying it's pretty decent. For those who haven't heard of him, he's Seinfeld huge in France, but a couple of years ago he decided to move to US and try to break into stand-up there, despite being completely unknown there and only having a typical Frenchman's grasp of English. An article about him: Or if you prefer - there was a pretty interesting segment about him on This American Life a while back. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/596/becoming-a-badger
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Mar 23, 2018 21:30
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So David Cross just announced a new tour. Tickets on sale this Friday at 10:00 local time for all shows. A lot (all?) of them also showing a presale starting Wednesday but no mention of a code in the notification email. Anyone able to track it down? Edit : Appears to be "COMEDY" if anyone cares. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Apr 23, 2018 16:50
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Sean Rouse died on the 29th. Just realized it now. http://thecomicscomic.com/2018/06/30/r-i-p-sean-rouse-1975-2018/
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Jul 5, 2018 23:03
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BiggerBoat posted:I know nobody really reads this thread but I like it. Same. I like standup a lot, but can't really add anything beyond "Hey - I went and saw *insert comic that you all know about already here* recently." Umm - latest example - Dave Attell at the Acme a couple weekends ago. He was really good - shocker! Up next - Marc Maron at the Acme next month. Perhaps you've heard of him.
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BiggerBoat posted:True, but I've learned about some really good comics from this thread also. I rarely want to watch a set from someone I've never heard of and most of the recommendations I've gotten here have been pretty good. Yeah - I do appreciate the heads up on good specials, etc. I can't control who comes through the local clubs here, but I'll sure as Hell check things out on streaming services.
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Saw Kreischer last night. Enjoyed it a lot. I assume a lot of people dislike how often he'll just start cracking himself up, but his silly rear end laugh is so infectious. And it makes my wife start giggling like a mad woman as well, which makes me start laughing. I do feel slightly bad for him though. Due to THE BIT. Poor guy. I had slight reservations about going to see him for fear of loads of people yelling out "The Machine!!!" all night. On cue - I heard it a few times in the first couple minutes of his set. He basically stopped and said "You know I'll tell it. Just stop. It's at the end." Thankfully this shut people up for the most part. Well, as quiet as a rather liquored up audience is gonna get. So he closed with it. Been a while since I've bother watching footage of it, and to my mind he seemed to tell a rather abbreviated shorter version. I can't imagine for a second he enjoys telling that story any more. Surely it's made him a load of money, but Christ. He's gotta be sick of it. Question. Any other comedians out there so enslaved by a single bit? Gaffigan pretty much has to tell some Hot Pockets joke(s) every set I would imagine, but he's got a lot to choose from there. I assume at the height of the Chappelle Show, any set he did was ruined by idiots yelling "I'm Rick James, Bitch!" or any other of a dozen catch phrases. But I can't think of any other comedian that's so connected to a single story. Side topic - got tickets to see Stanhope here (Twin Cities) in May. Stoked. First night (tues) sold out nearly immediately. Second night (wed) was added and sold out immediately. Got an email saying that they were working on a 3rd night. Club in question is already booked (With the amazing Ali Siddiq) for 4 nights after that 2nd Stanhope night. Club he's performing at isn't even open on Mondays, but a couple days later - the email came. Monday night show added. Don't know if that's rare or not, but thumbs up to my favorite drunk.
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piratepilates posted:smash that watermelon gallagher This is probably as close to what I was thinking of as possible.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:The Beef Jelly character has got to be based on this actual comedian I assume Alonzo Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-gytvj1w2w
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Apr 14, 2019 23:40
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Why did you quote and then post the exact same video I linked? Lol. Completely misread what you wrote as asking who the character was based on. Brain fart.
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Here's a potentially dumb question about something that was admittedly minor. Went to a show Friday night at one of the local comedy clubs. Headliner and one of the openers had some CDs for sale after the show. At this venue they'll usually be set up where you'd go by their table on your way out. Basically, they're right there as you file out. Had a good time? - say hi, maybe (please) buy a CD as well. So the headliner basically closed his set with (I'm paraphrasing ever so slightly, but this is pretty drat close.) "If you want to talk to me after the show, I'll be... (kinda pointing back towards the area where they'll be)... surprised." A small throwaway line at the end of the set, but really drat close to a Hedberg joke. So, how close to someone else's material does something have to be before it would be an issue among comedians? I don't exactly expect Rogan to be heckling the guy over it, but I'm genuinely curious.
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Like I said - pretty minor to begin with. Will admit my lack of knowing that it's a common throwaway line. I really only know of it since it's on one of Hedberg's albums.
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Apr 26, 2019 18:24
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sexpig by night posted:ok so I'm not the only one who thought he died a couple years ago? Thought the same thing for half a sec, but turns out I was thinking of Mike DeStefano.
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May 10, 2019 16:31
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BiggerBoat posted:I didn't know Stanhope had a book. Or books. They're decent, but not great. Wouldn't bother unless you're a fan already. I liked the first considerably more than the second. Posehn's book was pretty decent I thought.
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May 21, 2019 23:50
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El Gallinero Gros posted:New one is good, but I'll be shocked if he doesn't get a visit from the Secret Service Haven't watched the special, but the tour it was from started 18 months ago. Pretty sure he'd have gotten visited long ago. Was more surprised he got away with naming a tour "Making America Great Again" during the 2016 election cycle. Between his 2016 and 2018 tours I caught 4 shows. I love his material for the most part, but it's all blurs together at this point. Frankly, one of the best parts of a David Cross show is waiting for the inevitable joke that makes someone get up and leave. Seems to happen at least once at every drat show and it never gets old.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:I saw Abbie and Ilana do a stand up thing together a few years ago and it was the shittiest most unfunny thing I'd seen in a long rear end time. We left halfway through when they started doing karaoke with no backing music. Was this a part of the Broad City Live show they did a few years back? Saw them live between seasons 1 and 2 of the show and yikes. It seems like you're describing what I saw, but I've blacked most of it out. Just remember being really annoyed at how bad things were and some recollection of them doing some weird rear end dueling drum solos thing.
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Broad City is responsible for my wife and I saying this to each other approximately 1000 times. Now I feel like I have to make us try to watch the special.
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Bust Rodd posted:Yeah This Is Not Happening is super good. I don’t know how involved with the show Ari was besides hosting it or why he got replaced by the amazing Roy Wood Jr. but there are lots of really unbelievably funny stories there. Lest anyone be unaware - for a lot of the segments, there are longer uncut versions of the stories available on youtube.
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Five part podcast about David Cross if anyone's interested: https://www.theassemblypodcast.com/season2 Dumb rear end story vaguely about David Cross if anyone's interested: A friend got me into Mr. Show in 1998 right before the final season aired. I was instantly hooked and an annoying amount of Mr. Show references have littered our conversations ever since. The following Summer Cross was coming to Seattle to do two nights at the Showbox, and it was being filmed for what ended up as "The Pride is Back" on HBO. We bought tickets for both nights despite knowing it would be the same set. We went downtown a few hours before show time, had a few drinks and ended up in line 30 or so minutes before doors opened. Surprised at how few people there were, it turned out he wasn't nearly as popular as we had thought/hoped. Talking to some other people in line, we heard that HBO or whoever was in charge of such things had been around the neighborhood earlier just giving tickets to people in hopes of getting them to come. "He's really funny! He's on HBO! This will be on HBO!" We overheard other people in line mentioning that they had never heard of him before. Doors open, we get seated near the front, and the show starts. Great set. Loved it. Have heard the material countless times since then. But the night itself? It's a mess. Font and center table directly infront of the mic stand? A table of three people that clearly don't know who he is and as it turns out - HATE his material. Leaning back in their seats, arms folderd, death stares most of the time. Tried to heckle at least once (Over a joke about Meg Ryan of all things) but gets called an idiot and laughed at by most of the audience. Later in the set, against the producers requesting people get their drinks ahead of time and stay at their table, one of them makes a show of getting up to go the bathroom. The Showbox is more of a music venue and the bathroom entrances are basically 10 feet from the stage so Cross followed them in mic in hand and poo poo talked them for it. All of this is at least amusing if annoying to a fan, but it's rendering the night basically unusable for recording a special. Night two. We headed down early again and are first in line. We want to be first in line due to knowing the start of the show. We bullshit for a bit with other people in line. Some had been there the night before, others not. But we heard some of the same things again. "They're just giving tickets away, etc..." A woman down line is clearly already drunk and we can hear her loudly stating poo poo like "IMMA BE ON HBO!!!" Bad omen. Doors open, we get in and bee line it straight to a particular table in the front. A few minutes later a producer for the show comes up and asks if we'd mind changing tables. "No no no. We were here last night. We know what table this is. We know last night kinda sucked, but we'll be cool. Promise." That was good enough for him. He turns to leave. I have no memory of who thought to rat the woman out, but someone catches his attention and tells him "Hey - you see that lady over there? Already drunk and being kinda loud? Well she was outside bragging about how she's going to act like a jackass so she can be on HBO." "Oh yeah? Her? Thanks..." A minute later he's at her table with security and she's getting escorted out as a couple dozen Mr. Show nerds are laughing at her. All I recall is that she was annoyed and called us all losers, L on the forehead gesture and all. And that's how me and my narc friends got someone kicked out of a comedy show before it even started. The table we were at is basically featured at the start of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2OQXQYQaZ8 And that's how my dumb rear end friend and I ended up on screen in a 1999 David Cross special. 
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I don't even know if Jay does stand up or if this poo poo's true but drat if it doesn't look like him and where the hell else would you post this? https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1367595894829436932 https://thecomicscomic.com/2021/03/05/comedy-fans-id-jay-johnston-as-capitol-insurrectionist/ Already has a snopes entry. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jay-johnston-capitol-riots/
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Lmao holy poo poo it does look like him. He looks super pissed that he's been lied to his entire life about 24 being the biggest number. Coup Coup the herky jerky insurrectionist 
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Having a hard time deciding whether this is more disappointing than it is hilarious. Really hope it wasn't him, but drat there's some good dumb rear end jokes flying around.
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Mr. Show counts as stand up. Recently grabbed one of these: https://www.stateofshockstudios.com/store/mr-show And instead of putting it in the "I swear I'll get a frame for you someday" pile in the closet, I went to Michaels and bought a cheap poster frame.  The print is pretty drat cool in my book, nice quality as well. Plus I may or may not now have an insurrectionist on my wall. Edit - I can't for the life of me remember what bit the Danny Devito looking guy to the left of Bob's head is from. Any help? Riptor posted:i sure hope it isn't paul f tompkins as the japanese dude on the subway Just checked. Not that. Looking around the poster - it seems any non Bob/David person gets a single appearance and Paul is there as the button man. not seeing John Ennis anywhere though - maybe something he did? Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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DangerDummy! posted:The John Ennis picture is his screen shot when he played an actor vying for a Cyrus Dewey award. I don't know why this popped into my head two weeks later or why I remembered people asking about it in this thread. It was me and you're absolutely right. Thanks! 
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Mar 31, 2021 02:27
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DangerDummy! posted:Honestly, I'm embarrassed it took me so long to think of it. Same. Basically every other drawing on that poster I can immediately identify. And I could even guess that it was supposed to be Ennis, but couldn't place it. The drawing is done from a slightly different angle than the show though, so that's my excuse. (Come to think of it, I think Posehn's little Goin' Crackers character in the lead up to the Bob Lamonta story makes me laugh so much more that I forget about Ennis.) Edit: If my wife doesn't get me this for my birthday we will have words. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2920525-peanut-butter-and-eggs-and-dice-and-a-sponge If anyone is interested, Stanhope if going to be on some sort of free Zoom show on the 17th. https://www.eventbrite.com/x/146848683365/ Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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DC Murderverse posted:Check out the full video. it’s like 30 minutes of Saget talking about Norm, and you can tell how much he loved Norm and what kind of guy Norm was from the perspective of one of his closest friends. Very touching. Seconding this. It's a 30 minute lump in your throat.
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Had Gethard tickets in September but wife and I got suspiciously sick a couple days beforehand and had to skip while we waited for what turned out to be negative COVID test results. Still a bit bummed. Saw Stanhope again Wednesday though and that was great, with Patton coming up Friday.
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Saw Patton on Friday and uhhhhhhh, yikes. Roughly 30% of the set was crowd work. Not the biggest fan though it can be funny, but drat. It's really not his specialty. Even stumbling onto some guy in the front row that has worked at a movie theater for 10+ years cause he couldn't make money as a classically trained trombonist. Just a mad lib of nonsense to riff on and ugh. 25 minutes of nonsense. Have seen him a few times and this was the first that I've ever left with a sense of "What the Hell was that?" Unrelated, but Stanhope was his usual drunk wonderful self two weeks prior and Junior Stopka is amazing.
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Any San Fran people in this thread? I had an upcoming trip to the bay get cancelled and have some non-refundable (But transferable) tickets to see Todd Barry at Cobb's (Sunday 1/9) if anyone is interested and will actually use them. Respond here or PM if so. Edit - nope. Show postponed. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Gramps posted:New Sean Patton album is out. It's realgood so far. Just saw him for NYE at the Acme. loving great.
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Unless I'm completely brain farting, PFT is easily the top of my "Want to see live but never have" list. Not even close.
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BiggerBoat posted:Cool. I love his stuff and wish his name rang out a little more loudly. He's also a good example of an "edgy" comedian that's "allowed to say controversial things" without getting canceled. Not sure where he comes down on that issue of comedians feeling censored or whatever. I guess because he comes off like he doesn't loving give a poo poo either way or maybe because he's not mainstream or widely known enough to generate outrage and the people who go to see him know what they're in for anyway. Absolutely butchering his take on it, but from memory of past podcasts he more or less laughs at the idea of being cancelled. A mixture of "I'd take the exposure" and the fact that he kinda can't really be cancelled. He's essentially got enough of a following to be able to do his thing at his level of club for as long as he wants. It's not like he's going to get some Netflix series that they could subsequently take away from him. FOX attempting to make a deal of a bit from 20 years ago would be loving hilarious if only for seeing a newscaster explain that Doug joked that the organization was called "Pigs in Blankets." He's been tweeting at Statefarm a lot recently - seems the insurance process is as annoying as you'd expect.
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Continuing the former Mr. Show news... Looks like Jay Johnston finally got arrested. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-charge-bobs-burgers-arrested-development-actor-jan-6-capitol-riot-rcna88135 No drat idea how or why now instead of two years ago, but whatever. Crash into thimbles in jail for a few months, dipshit.
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huh posted:Does anyone listen to/watch the World Record Podcast? I found it a few months ago and I am now binging through every episode and there's something about it that just hits the spot for me. Is this even the right thread for this? I gave it a go after hearing it mentioned on Stanhope's podcast a load of times. Only got about 2-3 episodes in though. Parts amused me I suppose. I vaguely remember something about the drat New Kids on the Block I think? But overall it just didn't stick.
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Saw Kinane tonight. Was on my short list for sure. Absolutely killed and has apparently been filming this week for a special.
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My wife and I have liked Ali Siddiq for a few years now since seeing his appearances on "This is Not Happening." The first time we saw him was at a Rick Bronson's - a chain comedy club in the top floor of the Mall of America. There were 23 people there. I know that cause when he came out he counted us and laughed at how much him mom would have loved seeing this cause it's the kind of thing that keeps you humble. We saw him there again a year or so later and while the crowd was bigger it was still probably only 150 people or so. The tickets I just bought are for an upcoming theater tour - his first. Here in MN he's playing a theater with just over 1000 seats. I like comedy a fair amount - certainly more than the average person. At the same time, I'm not that on top of things to know who's drawing what crowd wise, etc. Has Ali Siddiq gotten that popular? I know he placed 2nd on some comedy showcase TV show a few years back (Had to cancel a 3rd visit to Rick Bronson's due to it in fact) and I assume he got some decent exposure from that. But despite how much *I* like him - I feel a little surprised that he's at this level now.
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Paracaidas posted:Looks like Ali is still going club heavy until the end of the year and the theatre dates are picking up after that, likely coinciding with the special he's taping in a couple weeks. At some point (and I'm long past my days of any behind the scenes insight in to the economics of venue booking), a barely sold theatre still makes more sense than a packed Bronson's or ACME. Good point on theater vs. Bronson's/Acme. (Though I'll take a show at the Acme every drat time.) Also, a little side LOL as I know I've been to the Pantages, State and Orpheum theaters and in my head they're all pretty interchangeable. Hell - I don't think I could accurately point to which is which on a map without seeing the marque. But looking at their seating capacities and they're absolutely not the same with The Pantages being half the capacity roughly. At the end of the day - the moral of my posts is that Ali Siddiq is great and you should see him if you can. Also - after seeing him the first time, he was happily chatting with the people that had come. Spent a minute chatting and somehow having previously seen Joey Diaz at Rick Bronson's had come up. From the no loving poo poo obvious files - my wife and I were informed that should Joey Diaz ever offer you weed, run the Hell away. The bit in Segura's new special had us laughing our asses off remembering that advice.
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