Bonnie McFarlane/Slade Ham/Funniest Mom

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 15th, 2005

We’re still at the Riv, where the hi-speed wireless connection is flickering and always threatening to crap out. So we’ll post three posts under one head and let our savvy readers sort it all out.

Bonnie McFarlane‘s HBO special kicked off at midnight last night. Don’t worry, though, it’ll run many times this month. Check your paper for times.

Slade Ham, proprietor of Comedy Texas, the premiere comedy club in Beaumont, TX, has survived Rita. So, too, apparently, has his club. We got an email from him, exhorting one and all to come on out to the club this weekend. He’ll be headlining htere through the 15th.

Jeff Singer is the producer of Nick At Nite’s Funniest Mom in America 2. He dropped us a line to let us know that they’ll be organizing auditions in 52 venues, seeking a fresh crop of candidates in a second, and more ambitious search for the funniest American woman to reproduce. Hop onto the Nickelodeon website for details. (And it that URL is hinky, we apologize. We’re posting under less than ideal conditions. The laptop is on its side, resting atop a trash can, in a wacky attempt to catch the wireless signal. No telling if it will work long enough for us to hit “post,” but we’re going to give it a try!)