But there will be Leesssbians there
November 21, 2008
The Annual Comedy Festival is going on this weekend and I plan to make the very most of it this year! It started tonight. So I call up Pork Chop Boy and try to talk him in to going tonight.
“Oh, I dunno,” he says.
“But, but, tonight is Ellen Degeneres’s show,” he wasn’t budging. “There will be leeesbiannns.” HA! I had him.
We grabbed a quick dinner and we hit Caesar’s Palace early. Real early. I think we were there by 6pm. We had nothing planned. I just wanted to wander around and see who I could see. If we didn’t find anything terribly interesting then the plan was we’d head out to the Silverton and review that.
We hung around the Webcast area and took some photos and looked around. The Tonight Show was filming there. (No, I did not get on The Tonight Show.) We got passes to get in to the free comedy show. And yeah, it was free, ha ha, so we didn’t need the pass but it gave us a direction.
The free show was surprisingly very, very good. It was packed though. My feet were killing me and I finally did find a part of a stage area to sit down for a while. We took off after about an hour.
You’d think because it was free and all that the comics wouldn’t be that good, but they were good! Really good! I’m sure a few of them are going places. One, not so much. It wasn’t that he was bad, his material was just a little too sick and the audience didn’t take to it well at all.
We wandered around again and ended up back at our home base, the webcast. They were interviewing Paul Varghese. We had just seen him perform in the LOL Lounge and he was great. I laughed my ass off. I particularly liked his jokes about arranged marriage. I guess that is one thing Jews and Indians have in common.
After we bugged Paul for a while, a young girl came up to us and asked us if we wanted to see Joan River’s show. Sure! She handed us two comped tickets for that show and back up all the stair cases to the Augustus room. Which was pretty much the place we just left.
Joan had bailed out on MC’ing this event. I was a little disappointed, but not as disappointed as the lady I was sitting next to. She was really bummed about it. Jim David was her replacement. And he did NOT disappoint!
I remember from the line up at thecomedyfestival.com that Joan Rivers was the host on this show, not really a performers. This was a girl’s comic show. I hadn’t planned on attending, but hey! Free tickets! Wohooo!
So Jim David just knocked us out. He was hysterical and introduced the first girl.
“So, how many of you didn’t realize this was a gay show?”
Aw, fuck! Poor Pork Chop Boy. I really don’t mean to corrupt him, really I don’t. It just sorta happens. He has learned more about gay rights on this vacation of his than he’d ever learn in his life otherwise.
But they killed. He laughed his ass off.
Stay tuned… I’m going back tomorrow night… Maybe I can tie another pork chop around his neck and throw him into another den of trouble…
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