Our final college show of the semester was at Lyndon State in Lyndonville Vermont on 9/12/09. That makes 37 freaking shows in one semester: KAPOW!
For this show, we shared the bill with our best buddy Michael Kent, and even merged the two shows for the 'questions from the audience' segment. Both shows went great, and it couldn't have been a better way to finish the season.... Except I did injure myself.
I went up to Vermont a couple days before the show to visit a friend in Burlington, and while I was there I visited the Magic Hat Brewery, maker of fine craft beers. I made a little video about it- check it out.
I also made a video about my favorite part of the Detroit Airport.
This was a really great show that we got to perform with comedian Rob O'Reilly! Make sure you check out his stuff; it's pretty funny.
Other highlight: they served snacks!
Also, Jonathan decided it was a good idea to rip a phone book in half.
I bought a Flip Camera right before the show, so it makes it easy to create fun little videos like this, so you can look forward to more of it in the future!
RHIT is another engineering school with a grossly disproportionate ratio of guys to girls. Basically, they are the smartest geeks you've ever met, and they are a lot of fun to perform for. The highlight of this show was during the questions from the audience segment of our show, because they asked a really fun question, "Have you ever gotten hurt during a show?" I got to launch into all my stories of almost getting hurt, and Jonathan helped me act them out in slow motion 3D (sort of). I'm not going to tell you those stories here; you'll have to come to one of our shows and ask that question yourself during that segment.
Knox College is one of those schools that takes the "Liberal" in Liberal Arts College to heart. It's the kind of school that has a football team whose players can't remember the last time they won a game (yet somehow sponsored by Nike), but boasts an intramural frisbee team that will destroy you with amazing hippie athleticism the likes of which you didn't know existed.
The girls on the activities board had entertaining reactions to the stunts in our show. They were terrified of my juggling props, especially the knife. Pre-show, I was trying to demonstrate that it's not sharp or fearsome and held it up to my neck, at which point one of them about had a heart attack due to her complete phobia of anything having to do with necks... Even talking about something touching anyone's neck makes her squirm and go pale. I made a bunch of inside jokes during the show for these girls because I thought their reactions were funny.... Jonathan's contortion tricks made them cover their eyes... what can ya do?
Ya'll want some sweet tea? This week we were in Georgia & North Carolina.
It all started on Tuesday, March 24 at Middle Georgia College (the oldest 2 year college in the US according to Wikipedia). Great show and thanks to Melissa for having us!
March 25th we performed at a really great club in Raleigh, NC, Goodnight's Comedy Club. It was Fajita & Margarita night, so lots of people came out to hear the sizzle of meat and some great jokes. Sorry, we weren't able to record the show, but trust me it was muy great (both the food & comedy [Be sure to check out Mary Kate Wise & Matt Bergman])!
Ray Wagner, Matt Bergman, and Kenney after some delicious $2 burgers & root beer!
March 26th we were at the University of North Carolina Pembroke. Lots of students came out to see our little show. Jonathan even got a $1 tip during the Hoop of Destiny. Plus, we unveiled the Official SOS! Headbands (For Sale Online VERY SOON). BIG Thanks to Chris, Symphony, 6 month old Sonata, UNCP Crew!
At the end of the trip we decided to start "Trillionaire Magazine", the only magazine for trillionaires. If you are a million, billion, or trillionaire reading this subscriptions start at $10,000,000/year.
More adventures to come... we'll be in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Virginia next week!
In the last week of January we logged two more shows into the SHOWOFF Show! archives. On Monday the 26th we performed at SUNY Plattsburg to kick off the first night of their "Freakin' Funny Comedy Carnival". Getting there was pretty special; we flew into Burlington VT, and then had to take our rental car across lake Champlaine on a ferry. The lake was totally frozen over except for the ferry path, which had so much floating ice that it looked like a drink.
On the ferry we noticed a license plate that could be interpreted a couple different ways; "paint it" or "pain tit"
The show was fun, and before the activities board got to launch rubber chickens and t-shirts at the audience.
Our second show of the week was on Friday at Grand Valley State University near Grand Rapids Michigan. This was our second year performing at their "Kids and Sibs Weekend", and it was a blast! We filled the house and it rocked!
On Jan 13, we logged our first show of the year at Mt Union College in Alliance OH. They booked us and our good friend Michael Kent on the same night, which is pretty fun for us. It happened to be the night before Michael's birthday, so we threw in a special little birthday bit into the show at the last minute.
The theater at Mt. Union is a beautiful old movie house with the original projector and some old movie reels still intact. While we were there they were in the process of updating it with a digital projector, and a nice surround sound system. Turnout to the show was decent even though it was snowing pretty hard outside, which made the walk to the theater a little slick.
After the show we all went out to dinner with the Mt Union activities board.
