Without the sugar, revenge is a cracker

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 13th, 2005

The Last Comic Standing juggernaut rolls on. A Quad City Times story based on a phoner with Gary Gulman, in anticipation of his pending appearance at Bettendorf’s Penguins comedy club, contains the following:

“Every place I’m playing this year wouldn’t return my phone calls last year at this time,” Gulman said from West Palm Beach, Fla. “It’s given me a 180 in my career.”

Gulman and two other Last Comic Standing comics, Jay London and Alonzo Bodden, have toured together in the “I’m Still Standing Tour” from August through the end of this month.

According to the story, London opens, does 20 or 25, then Bodden and Gulman alternate closing. Despite the show’s truncation, these three have been on a six-month tour of the nation. TV killed comedy? These boys ain’t buying it.

Gulman says that fans are showing up at the shows bearing sugar cookies (a reference to his cookie bit) and that he’s been careful, until recently, not to do any of the jokes he did on LCS. Ridiculous, really, since half those in attendance probably didn’t see the bits in the first place, a quarter saw them and don’t remember and the remaining 25 per cent are there specifically to see him do the bits they saw on the tube! (They aren’t showing up with cookies by accident, Gary.)

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