Bananas Comedy

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 16th, 2009

We were winding down in our hotel room last night, here in Vegas. Round about 2 AM or so, a show came on one of the local stations. It was called Bananas Comedy. It was a standup show and, from what we could tell (we missed the beginning), it was taped at a Funny Bone. The comedian onstage was a female caucasian, perhaps in her 30s.

We didn’t see the beginning of the show, so we didn’t hear her intro. We watched through maybe six segments and we never saw or heard her name. When they’d go to commercial, there’d be a plug for the show and the show’s website, complete with quick clips of past comics and upcoming acts. The standup segments were interpersed with video shot in the field, illustrating a bit that we’d just heard and interviews with the week’s featured comedian.

We did however hear the name of one comedian– Thor Ramsey— who, apparently was the host (and possibly the brains behind) the show.

Would it have killed the producers to flash the name of the comedian on the screen once in a while? We watched for nearly an hour and didn’t see her name once. And Ramsey never addressed her by name (nor did her name appear on the screen).

We had to scan the credits quickly at the end of the show to find out that the comic we’d just watched was Sara Shea. She’d burned through a heck of a lot of material and, while the segements were well-produced and showcased her well, her name was a mystery for any viewer who didn’t have access to the internet (or was not inclined to get up and look it up on the internet).

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