Modified On May 11, 2009
We attended Melvin George II‘s roast last year at the Brokerage and it was hysterical.
We just worked with Melvin last night in Springfield, NJ, and he told us that he’s uploaded the entire audio record of the roast to his website.
Many of the speeches are hysterical even if you know and love George as we do!
(It’s a little tricky, requiring some cut and paste and a few minutes to download the mp3 file from MediaFire.com, but it’s worth it!)
That booming laughter you hear is Melvin’s– he’s got his fancy, HiDef MiniDisc recorder in front of him.
Particularly ingenious was Ed Ryan’s presentation. Some of the gags are visual gags, but the speech itself is hysterical. (“We are here to night to honor Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes…”)
Speaking of last night– we appeared at Scotty’s Steakhouse in Springfield, NJ. The Female Half filled in for a fellow comic at the special Mother’s Day show and the Male Half tried out another five-minute set in anticipation of next week’s trip to the Comedy & Magic Club.
The Comedy Cove was a comedy room started above Soctty’s started by former Rascals GM Ed Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh is leaving the Cove to take a management position at Gotham in New York City. He assures all that the Cove will continue with new management.