Line-Up:
Matty Ballgame
Patrick Ney
Lana Turner
Bernadette Balagtas
Nick Thune
Jeff Short
Michael Batts
Chris Porter
Josh Wolf
Biggest line-up in Ballgame Laugh Lounge history tonight…but it wasn’t awful. You know why…because all of the comedians were good…they stuck to their time…no one went up too long…and that kept you wanting more. The other thing was important…at no point was Matty saying stuff like, “OK folks…only few more comedian…hang in there.” I hate that shit. If you have to say that…the comedians aren’t good…and you are putting on a bad show…and not helping the cause…which is getting people out to see live comedy. Get with the program folks…this should always be fun…not torture.
Just a highlight review this time (sorry to the comedians in this line-up…I’ll get you back in more detail on another blog) because I’m writing this two weeks after the fact…my bad…I’ll catch up today.
Matty Ballgame is still slinging new jokes every time and the confidence is still rising…I love it. Pat Ney was very good…looking forward to seeing him again. I still can’t get into Lana Turner’s style…it’s not that she has bad jokes…I’m just not into the style…to each his own. I LOVE Bernadette Balagtas…she is just very friendly…clean…funny as hell. Thune did his IM Bit…Salmonerd/Insynchottie…very well done bit…I’ve seen it 3 times now…and he has it dialed…looking for new material from Thune. Jeff Short was the surprise of the night…he crushed it…tons of talent…great jokes…a big time up and comer with Kinno. Michael Batts had a solid set…Porter was stellar…and Josh Wolf was solid. More later on everyone.
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I couldn’t agree with you more on Lana Turner! We just saw her recently as the headliner, and all she could talk about was her stretched out female body parts, AIDS, and trite, stereotypical slants that isolated any minority type in the room. My husband and I are intellectual professionals and can find humor in just about anything, we say, no matter how bad it may be. We love the comedy channel on both television and XM. As a mixed raced couple in a city where there are few minorities, Lana actually had the crowd pointing at my husband. Though she didn’t specifically say this, she did exclaim “Oh there’s one in the room!” We just smiled and remained our good-natured selves. When she proclaimed that “the world needs one less biracial kid in the world” atop other jokes, we were so embarrassed by the looks, points, and stares, we didn’t even look at each other. Three couples around us actually apologized for her as we were leaving. My husband is a good-natured guy; and despite his ability to overcome negativity, he mentioned how it made him feel in the next few days. She was just offensive, not even funny. And believe it or not, despite what I’ve said, we would give credit where credit is due. Even if you’re thick-skinned, she doesn’t give many chuckles. She did have a few great one-liners that were im-provved from a group in the front of the room. Truly these unscripted comments showed she CAN be funny; she is just on the wrong track.