The ‘Comic Strip’ is Canada’s only Class A Comedy Club, and bills itself as ‘Las Vegas’ style entertainment. It’s beautiful! Three tiers of seating, so there isn’t a poor seat in the house. Staff seat the patrons upon arrival thus guaranteeing that there is a crowd around the stage; here again your feet are at the audiences face level, and the faces are right at the edge of the stage. Great fun, you can bend over and look straight into their eyes!
It’s a wide venue, and holds about 300 people; on Monday night there were perhaps 100 in attendance. Again, a great line up of comics, and we are carefully instructed on the importance of keeping to our five minute maximum stage time. I draw the number 8 position, and sit back to enjoy the show. A fourteen year old has been brought by his parents all the way from Calgary! He can’t perform in the Calgary bars because he’s under age; the Comic Strip, however, is rated as ‘Family Entertainment’, and he can legally go on stage. The young fellow is very good.
Just loved that stage and my five minutes on it. The crowd was terrific, responding well just where I expected them to, and showing their appreciation. At one point they were a little slow to laugh, but, when it did start, I just said, “That’s Ok! I can wait for you!” which got an even better response! At the end of the show the ‘Headliner’ of the evening, Mr Lars Calieux, announced that I’d had the best line of the evening, he liked that, “Calloused Assed Gutter Sluts!”
All told an entertaining and informative weekend. Also, that brings my Stand-up career to a grand total of 22 performances; this, according to my mentor, John Cantu, means that I now have to start trying to get a couple laughs each time on stage.
No comments:
Post a Comment