Along with a number of other comics, I’ll be doing standup at the Laughing Bean coffee shop on Friday, May 20. You have been warned.
The show starts at 8:00 pm; seating’s limited and usually vanishes quickly (and not just because of Vancouver’s thriving black market in purloined restaurant chairs), so call if you’d like a reservation — 604-251-5282. It all happens at 2695 E Hastings, 2 blocks west of Renfrew. No cover, but they do ask that you spend at least three bucks on their delicious coffees, teas and desserts. (Superb cinammon buns, by the way.)
Go Get ‘Em Rob!
And make sure you get a good slag or two in at the expense of that bloody new Starbucks Drive Through that just went in down the street from the Bean.
Predation for the Nation – geez they make me crazy….
Oh, god, you’ve got to be kidding me…
No, you aren’t.
Maybe this is the time to mention that I’ve just added the Starbucks workers to my blogroll.
The workers are OK….and I realize that, at least by industry (?) standards, they are treated quite well.
It’s the corporate policies designed to kill any and all of the independents that really gets me.
I saw this first hand when I lived in Berkeley where, after a longstanding moratorium agreed to because the fauxStarbucks ‘experience’ is basically a rip-off of the real thing – Peet’s Coffee- they moved back in and tried to crush Peet’s.
Thank godlessness that the good burghers, students, non-students and radical post-docs that populate the place have so far made sure that it hasn’t worked….
It all happens at 2695 E Hastings, 2 blocks west of Renfrew.
Er, would that be Renfrew North? ;)
[Note for anyone planning to attend the show: This question actually has absolutely nothing to do with the location of the show on May 20. It is an obscure historical reference from – ack! – twenty years ago, intended only to make Rob chuckle.]
Good luck on the 20th. Sorry that it’s a little out of my way to be there.
And you know, it actually feels like 20 years ago.
(I was the NDP candidate in Renfrew North in the 1985 Ontario election. And I came this close to actually registering a negative number of votes.)
Whooee! I jest lissened t’ yer standin’ up routine on that there quicktime deal you posted up a few days ago. Yer a funny feller. I laffed so hard a tear ran down my leg. I reckon yer gonna be up on yer hind legs on the Jest Fer Laffs TV show or mebbe the Royal Canajun Air Fart before too long.
I’d sure be tickled t’ see yer act but it’d mean travelin’ 3000 miles so I’ll hafta wait til yer cross-Canadee tour. Lemme know if yer ever in Ontariariario.
By the bye, is doin’ them funny shows more fun than writin’ speeches fer the Dips?
JB
Thanks, JB! It’s actually kind of cool; for years, I’ve let others take the heat for the stuff I write. Now I’m 100% responsible for it.
So… if (when) a joke bombs in standup, I have nobody to blame but myself. When I’m writing for someone else, I can always shake my head sadly and blame the delivery. (Not that this ever happens.)
Hey, what do you think of the idea of recruiting stand-up comics as politicians? (Yes, I see the straight line lurking there…)
Stands ups in politics – frigging brilliant
Whooee! Havin’ sum new jokers in parliment sure as hell wouldn’t be any worse than the clowns we got in there now. I see we got InkyDinky Markin’ Pen an’ Joey (The Fox) Vulpine callin’ each other names all politickal correct-like. Shee-it! If we was t’ get us a few comedians fer remembers o’ parliment mebbe they’d be able t’ take a joke.
I jest follered that there link t’ the Kung Fu Monkey. If learnin’ t’ say “ain’t” an’ actin’ like a fool is what qualifies a body t’ be a polytician, I reckon mebbe I oughta toss my own hat inta the ring. The next thing I’ll need t’ learn is how t’ get up on my hind legs an take credit fer everythin’ good an’ say how everythin’ bad’s the other feller’s fault. Yeow! I reckon I already know how t’ do that, too. Guess I’m ready t’ start stumpin’ soon as Harpoon an’ his BlocHead buddyboy call the election.
JB
So will you be needing a speechwriter? (he said, hand reaching hopefully for his suitcase and battered typewriter)
Whooee! Robfeller, I don’t reckon you work fer nuthin’ so I’ll hafta wait’n’see if I can get sum donations or mebbe sum federal gummint spomsorship money before I letcha know ’bout hirin’ you on fer speechwritin’. I figger if I make a strong stand fer national unity, mebbe the PMO’ll put sum lucky-bucks inta my campaign. I already come out against the damn labour unions so you might hafta put aside yer Dippy philosophy fer writin’ my stump stuff.
JB
Maybe you two should go Hope and Crosby and hit the road together….
Or at the very least splice your two audio clips together.
Hey Rob!
Thanks for the call-in tip.
Missed it….now corrected.