We're in the desert…PHX, to be exact…

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 22nd, 2005

We’re headed to Yuma, AZ, tonight, performing in an Indian casino Thursday. Then it’s back to PHX, Scottsdale, to be exact, for two nights at the Comedy Spot. We do another casino in Globe on Sunday, then it’s back to Vegas and another Divas spot at the Sahara for Traci.

It was 114 degrees here yesterday. There’ll be a bit of relief from the heat today, as the temperature plummets to about 108.

We spotted another of those Larry the Cable Guy kiosks somehwere in the desert, at a gas station in Kingman or thereabouts. It was as if locusts had ravaged it. It was sold nearly out, with but a t-shirt or two and maybe a bumper sticker left. Apparently, it’s a success.

Looking forward to “resting” in Reno starting next Tuesday at the Catch at the Silver Legacy. Sure one of us (the male half of the staff) will be gigging, but without travel or radio or television appearances, it will seem like rest.

In comedy news, David Spade has signed to a series on Comedy Central. Seems he’ll be doing a sortofa Kathy Griffin thing, chomping on the hand that feeds him, show business, to, it is hoped, hilarious effect. We saw Spade on the telly yesterday…or the day before, frolicking on the set of a Rob Schneider film about baseball. It seems that Schneider can actually play the game. Spade is another story altogether.

Speaking of Griffin, we apologize to the folks at Bravo for not getting back to them. They dropped a nice VM on our machine a few weeks ago, offering an interview with the c-list comedienne. All sorts of things got in the way of our replying, so, if you’re reading this, Bravo person, we’d love to interview Ms. Griffin…but we prefer to deal directly with the subject her/hisself. (These publicist-arranged deals always are terribly awkward and we’ve never done it that way…and we have no intention of starting to. The publicist or manager arranged interviews always degenerate into phone tag, or, once in a while, email shouting matches where someone accuses someone else of being unprofessional… or worse!)