The Porn Again Christians / Soy City Stranglers show last night was a blistering rock extravaganza. I did my ten minutes up front, and as usual with doing comedy at a rock show, most of the crowd stood there and stared with that "Why is this guy who looks like a DEA agent talking to me?" look.Despite the scarcity of raucous laughter, I still got the flurry of handshakes and compliments afterward and, more importantly, got to see a great show. Comedy and rock is always an odd mix. If you're Doug Stanhope, you can follow an hour of thrash metal and still keep the crowd. If you're not, it can be a challenge to win over a bunch of heavily tattooed Mid-westerners in a rock and roll frame of mind. Especially when there's no stage and the patrons have to walk through the performance area to get to the bathrooms.
As for The Dragon Inn, it's an OK rowdy little rock bar, but if the talent has to pay full price for a Jack and Coke (Four dollars? Really? in Sullivan, IL?), it should look like a Jack and Ginger Ale. Especially if you're going to short the bands on the money at the end of the night because they delivered two and a half hours of great rock and roll instead of two hours and forty-three minutes.
2 comments:
First of all...Maybe if you were actually Funny you would have had a better response but your NO Dane Cook or Doug Stanhope!!!! You opened for a punk band...what kinda place did you think you were going to. If you can't take the heat keep your yuppy suit wearing ass out of the kitchen. And as great as the bands were maybe they should have started on time.
Thank you Teresa. You have given me my first ever piece of hate mail. I have arrived!
And I have no problem risking failure by doing comedy at a rock show. That's half the reason I do it - it makes the clubs that much easier.
And thank you, especially, for telling me I'm no Dane Cook. You have no idea what a compliment that is. As for not being Doug Stanhope, well, I can't feel too bad about that because no one is.
I'm sure I'll be back in Sullivan within the year. See you then!
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