Citzens of Rochester: Be not fooled by the weaselly behavior of your local comedy club, the Comix Cafe! (See below)
We were alerted to the above advertisement by a comedy fan in Flower City. It seems that the Comix Cafe in that fair town was using the appellation “Voted Top Ten in Nation by USA Today” in their print ads. It is a lie and a fraud!
The USA Today article referred to is one in which the editors and publishers of SHECKYmagazine.com were consulted and asked to provide a list of ten clubs throughout America which were “Great places to sit down and watch standup” for an article in their Travel section. We obliged. We provided them with a list– a carefully considered list– that contained ten clubs that we felt represented a cross-section of clubs in America. Some of them we were intimately familiar with– some, we had it on good authority, were representative of their market or their genre.
The Comix Cafe in Rochester was not on the list. For them to claim otherwise is a lie and a deceit. (We suspect that they’re playing on a bit of confusion with the Comix Cafe in Buffalo— a club that was in fact on the list and a club at which we’ll be headlining in November!)
This is a lowdown and wretched thing to do. We implore the weasels who run the Comix Cafe in Rochester to cease and desist at once!