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06/18/2008: ""
My late show on the Spirit went really well a few nights ago. I get to go back to that ship in a few days for the same run pretty much. It is very nice to go back to the same place two weeks in a row because I already know what to expect. I am sitting in the airport in Vancouver waiting to fly home through Denver. The internet is free. I love Canada.
American tourists drive me crazy. Just wait in line patiently like everyone else. Because you made a scene, I get a bad name internationally. It is all pretty simple at the airport, they have signs in various languages telling you what to do and where to go and even if you can't read, you can look around and do what the other people are doing.
Okay, I'm done being mad. If you are abroad and you have an American passport, try not to be an ass, thanks.
The only real downside of this last trip on the Spirit was that I had two nights off. I really don't like not having a show every night. I had some pretty interesting stuff to occupy my time. I got to see two shows on the ship on my nights off. I also got to see the playoff between Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods for the U.S. Open. Certainly one of the finest rounds of golf ever televised.
Last night I also got to watch the Celtics win the NBA finals. Usually, blowouts aren't that entertaining, but for some reason, this one was pretty fun to watch. The fact that they won the series with dominant defense and rebounding really made the modern day Celtics look like the Bill Russell era Celtics. Before I got obsessed with being an entertainer I wanted to be a basketball player. I grew up watching the Celtics and the Lakers. I felt like I was nine years old again watching that series.
Well, I'm half way through a month of just working ships. It isn't making me as crazy as I thought it would. I will be back in a comedy club in early July, but until then, it is just cruises. They have moved the late night shows back into the lounges on most ships. For a while, the midnight show would happen in the big theater, but now we are putting them back in the little lounges. I really don't care where they tell me to do my show, just as long as I have a show. The main difference is that the lounges only hold about three or four hundred folks at the most depending on the ship, so most of the time, people who want to see the late show will get turned away because the lounge is full. It is very exciting to have a show where everyone in the crowd is sitting ontop of one another and people are standing in the aisles. Also, the lounge feels more like a comedy club so it does lend itself to more experimentation out of me. In some of the lounges, they do Karaoke. It really isn't my first choice to do a show after they wrap up Karaoke, but now that I think of it, in the big room I am often following a game of bingo.
In the lounge on the Spirit, there is an amazing cover band from Romania that played right up until five minutes to showtime. That was very cool. I felt like I was doing a set on the Midnight Special going on after a fantastic rendition of 'I Will Survive'. I love that Midnight Special DVD infomercial.