Modified On April 7, 2005
One of our spies out there in Comedyland sent along the Edmonton Journal’s take on the whole Andy Dick/Yuk Yuks mess. It was most difficult to choose our favorite quote. Here’s two that tied for the grand prize:
“I’ve never seen anything that bad on a stage, ever,” (Yuk Yuk’s manager Chrysi) Rubin said of the two shows she paid the star comedian $7,500 US to perform at the Londonderry Mall club on Friday evening.
“I think this was the first time in Yuk Yuk’s history that we’ve had to terminate an act of some notoriety.”
(If anyone has a link to an online version of the EJ’s account, please insert it into a comment, eh? Thanks!)
“He kept exposing himself on stage. He took his (penis) out and wrapped it around his arm like a watch. He was talking about other races.”
(A patron) said Dick drank heavily on stage. By the time the brief show ended, he said he was worried someone in the angry crowd would physically attack the comedian.
Are we piling on? No, not at all. But when there are so many comics out there (actual comics— ya know, comics? Like comedians? Like, ya know, with, like… an act? Like, material?!) it is puzzling as to why folks are so intent on inflicting this kind of ridiculousness on comedy club crowds (and charging $15,000 US!), and doubly puzzling as to why anyone would book it into his or her club (and charge his or her patrons $32 CD)? I guess we just don’t understand how the world works.