Modified On May 15, 2008
Mike Weatherford writes, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Yet another comedy club arrives, but this one is downtown at Fitzgerald’s. Comedy After Hours is an expansion of an Austin, Texas, club and opens May 22. There will be two “road” comedians and a local host for a $29 ticket. “Country Superstars Tribute” will share the room and keep its 7 p.m. time slot, but won’t have shows on Fridays or Saturdays.
Fitzgerald’s spokesman Gene Sagas says the real carrot is the club’s plan to film each Tuesday show and distribute it for late-night cable TV viewing around the country; a free plug for the casino each time the show comes back from a commercial.
The “real carrot?!” Whatever.
The Austin room referred to is located in the Dave & Buster’s on Research Blvd. in Austin and has comedy on Friday nights only.
We wonder if the comedians are receiving any compensation for their appearance on “late-night cable TV viewing around the country?” And we wonder which cable outlet will be carrying the show? (We suspect the answers are “none” and “none,” otherwise Sagas would have provided Weatherford with the information.
At $29 per ticket in a downtown venue, we probably won’t have to wonder long.