Saturday April 23 I headlined a show in Cheyenne, Wyoming, at DTs Tusker Bar with my buddy, Ariel Holmes. We hit the road at about 630 am, we were both pretty tired. Most comics are night people. We stopped in Santa Fe to visit with Ariel's mom, then we hit the road again. I had never driven a standard before, but learned pretty quickly. Between Las Vegas and Raton is one of the most boring drives, it was to have someone there to talk to.
A day earlier I noticed Slade Ham was in Colorado Springs performing at Loonees, so I hit him up on Twitter so we could stop in and say hi. Hadn't seen him in quite awhile, once at Laffs in Albuquerque, and when I worked with him at Loonees in 2006. Slade had his buddy, Sam Demaris with him, too, it was my first time meeting him. We stopped in at the condo for about an hour telling some funny stories. When I worked with Slade, I was emceeing at the time, Slade and Gary Bell were co-headlining. One night we had a guest set from Tommy Johnagin (probably spelled wrong, but not gonna look it up). He showed up late and I had no idea we had a guest set, Loren, the club manager at the time brought a napkin to me on stage telling me to introduce the guest set. The way he had spelled it out I messed up the pronunciation and when he got on stage he corrected me, as I was telling him sorry he made a smart ass remark to me telling me to get off stage. Kind of rubbed me the wrong way, he was late, then acted like that, but whatever, he got second on Last Comic Standing and makes way more than I ever will. And I've heard from some comics that he is actually a really cool guy.
Slade and I both remembered the shows from that week, especially the Saturday late show that Gary headlined. Gary ate a huge bag of shit on stage, felt really bad for the guy, but made fun of him for the next 24 hours. At the Sunday show when he was out of the showroom I told the crowd how horrible he did the night before and told them to give him a standing ovation, it was awesome!
The show in Cheyenne wasn't too bad, there was a guy who kept talking during the show, but he was kind of fun to mess with. Ariel does a bit about Paul Harvey reading erotic novels, one of my favorite jokes ever haha.
Monday night was open mic at Hallenbrick in Albuquerque and I finally got a chance to get down there! What an awesome little open mic, with some of the best comics in town. It was great to see so much talent perform at one place. I love the comedy scene here everybody is so supportive. My wifey, Caitlin, also did a set, her 4th time on stage and she rocked. I was so proud of her. She was so happy to get big laughs.
Thursday night is the last show at Howies, which I'm pretty sad about. Its gonna be a great show though! Always have fun there.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
El Paso
Ok, I'm going to start blogging more about my road gigs and whatnot. I've been on the road a bit the last couple weeks. This weekend I was in El Paso, Texas, headlining at Maki Sushi Bar, where they have a side room for a small comedy club. The people from suncitycomedy.com but the shows together, they're awesome!
Thursday and Fridays crowds were a little slow, didn't really get all the clever stuff. It always makes me laugh watching a crowd when they don't get jokes. One or two people get the joke and have to splain (el paso talk for explain) the joke to everyone else. Saturday nights show was awesome though, people got most of the jokes and weren't afraid to laugh. And a group of gay guys left during my set right before I got to my gay jokes. And when they left they didn't push their stools in.
Worked with some great comics, Sam Butler was the mc, he's pretty new to the scene, but he does a great job and actually enjoys emceeing. Manny Vigil and Sean Scarbrough were the other opening acts, I've performed with both of them before, very entertaining guys.
Saturday afternoon, Gibran and Mando came by the hotel room and we recorded the Border Geek podcast which will be up on Wednesday.
Went downtown last night and a couple guys stopped me and said, "hey, its Fletcher from Colorado." They were at my show last time I was in El Paso. They remembered picking on this idiot from Alabama. Fun times. Had a nice weekend in El Paso and they've got me coming back in two weeks for a couple other venues. Take That Sun City
Thursday and Fridays crowds were a little slow, didn't really get all the clever stuff. It always makes me laugh watching a crowd when they don't get jokes. One or two people get the joke and have to splain (el paso talk for explain) the joke to everyone else. Saturday nights show was awesome though, people got most of the jokes and weren't afraid to laugh. And a group of gay guys left during my set right before I got to my gay jokes. And when they left they didn't push their stools in.
Worked with some great comics, Sam Butler was the mc, he's pretty new to the scene, but he does a great job and actually enjoys emceeing. Manny Vigil and Sean Scarbrough were the other opening acts, I've performed with both of them before, very entertaining guys.
Saturday afternoon, Gibran and Mando came by the hotel room and we recorded the Border Geek podcast which will be up on Wednesday.
Went downtown last night and a couple guys stopped me and said, "hey, its Fletcher from Colorado." They were at my show last time I was in El Paso. They remembered picking on this idiot from Alabama. Fun times. Had a nice weekend in El Paso and they've got me coming back in two weeks for a couple other venues. Take That Sun City
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