After five straight nights of traveling, joke-telling and ego bruising, many of the comics are ready for this week to end. It is fitting that the first round should end in a casino. For this is a mighty big gamble. The winner of...
Read MoreWell, well, well. As we headed into night 5 of 6, things began to get a bit ticklish for many of the comics. The comics in the middle of the pack, score-wise, are feeling the pressure, knowing that they still have a chance to...
Read MoreThis is a good opportunity to explain how life on the road for a stand-up comedian is not always all it’s cracked up to be — if you pardon the cliche. Club Broadway is a big old four-story building in downtown...
Read MoreOr so you might think. Before tonight’s show at the Cloverleaf, several comics come up to me looking for pointers or advice on local places they can use for their jokes. Somehow they got the impression that I know...
Read MoreLet me introduce a couple of my friends. Joe Vespaziani. A man among men. Who else among us in the competition can say they’ve had a bum kidney, endured the pain of a catheter, and then written a hilarious bit about it?...
Read MoreI’m sick. I’m tired. So officially, I’m sick and tired. I stayed up most of the night Tuesday balancing my day job (yes, some of us comedians — that would be the bad ones — still have one of those),...
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