R.I.P. Scott Kennedy

As a comic you'll often times run into bitter headliners that think they should have "made it" big, or younger headliners who know they're going to "make it" big. Every time Scott Kennedy came to Laffs he was one of the nicest comics, and one of the funniest. He had a Comedy Central Presents, and numerous other tv credits. Over 50 trips overseas performing for the troops, and never acted like he was better than everyone else. One week he was headlining and Mark Poolos was featuring. The mc for the week was awful! The club owner was going to fire him, but Scott and Mark talked him into not firing him and worked with him on his act the next couple of days and he did a lot better. I thought that was super cool of both of them to do that. How many other comics would have taken the time to help out a struggling mc like that?

I was sitting at the Frontier restaurant a couple weeks ago and one of Scott's jokes popped into my head. It's hard to believe that I will never get to see him again, he died in his sleep yesterday. I have a video somewhere of a prank I pulled on him at Laffs while he was on stage. If I can find it I will make sure to put it up here. Thank you for all that you did Scott, all the shows overseas, and just being a great person. You'll be greatly missed.

If you never got to see Scott perform, check out his performance on the Craig Ferguson.

Matt Peterson

Today is the birthday of my good friend, Matt Peterson, an Albuquerque comic. I've known Matt since before his comedy days when we worked together at Poppi's Pizza (I miss that place!) Matt was always a super cool guy to work with, in fact, on my final delivery there when my car broke down, Matt came and picked me up and took me on the delivery. It was like something out of a movie. An extremely gay movie, but still, a movie. I got to see Matt perform his first few shows over at Laffs Comedy Club, and I knew he was going to be good. He had a great stage presence, and never seemed nervous. I could usually always tell who the new comics were, mostly because I'd have to clean up their puke in the bathroom at the club. With Matt you could never tell if he was nervous.

Over the years Matt's act has gotten so much better. He's a great bit writer and he's an awesome performer, too. I love watching him get pissed off, his rants are the hilarious! I saw him one night at Howie's rip into some people, not going to mention their names, but holy shit! That was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.

I've taken Matt on the road a couple of times, and in May we are going to Loonees Comedy Corner in Colorado Springs! I love working with Matt on the road, he's so laid back. Some comics are hard to work with, but not Matt. Last time I took him up there was my birthday week, we got pretty hammered. We worked with Matt Baetz, who is hilarious. Had great shows all weekend, and had fun watching March Madness.

Happy birthday Matt Peterson! Love ya buddy.


To see Matt perform, he's at the Damn Bar in Rio Rancho ever Friday at 8 pm. Also, a big show at the Guild Theater March 15th. He's also one of my opening acts for my dvd taping, so get out and see Matt perform! He's on at the Box tonight at 10:30