Geechy Guy has talent

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 15th, 2011

Often the comedians who dare to appear on NBC’s America’s Got Talent are met almost immediately with boos. There’s something very Showtime at the Apollo about the crowds they recruit for AGT. They have a hair-trigger and they’re demonstrative– especially when it comes to comics.

Geechy Guy, however, handled the situation smartly– first, by stressing the world record holder joke-telling thing and second, by steamrolling the audience. On Joke Number Two, he stepped on the audience’s (positive) reaction and made it quite clear that he was not interested in basking in their approval but was instead intent on banging out a lot of jokes in a short time and that they had better catch up.

The result is predictable:

Piers Morgan is a world-class idiot. (We came to this conclusion after watching Piers Morgan Tonight— the only show that can make one nostalgic for Larry King.) Try to imagine his utterances without the British accent. Not only is he utterly lacking in brains, but he seems to have a curious blank spot where any normal person has a sense of humor. “I didn’t find you remotely funny…” says Morgan, after Geechy Guy’s hysterical barrage of one-liners. Not even remotely? He should donate his brain to science.

Full disclosure: The Male Half regularly performs on Geechy Guy’s “Dirty Joke Show” at the Iowa Theater for the Performing Arts at Hooters Casino Hotel here in Vegas. The show, produced by Geechy Guy, features him and a rotating cast of two other comedians telling dozens of old jokes (or “street jokes”) in a back-alley setting. The pretense being that the audience is witnessing three comedians sitting just outside a fictional comedy club’s stagedoor, shooting the breeze and entertaining each other by telling the jokes that have amused them over the years. Great fun for the audience and, says the Male Half, great fun for the performers as well.

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