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.
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