Welcome to the inaugural name pending offshoot of Barley & Me, where I (host Ben Rice) sit down with interesting people over their favorite drinks at their favorite places, whether it be beer, hard alcohol, coffee, or anything else.
Today, we're talking to improvisor Lacey Carroll (@lacey.m.carroll) about this weekend's (Friday March 28/Saturday March 29, 2025) Femme Fest at Sacramento Comedy Spot (tickets at www.saccomedyspot.com/femmefest) while seated on the patio at Sacramento's first Belgian beer bar, Pangaea Bier Cafe.
Lacey is a big fan of saisons, so we started with Sante Adairius's Jaybird, a foudre-aged saison with mango. We then tried a beer both of us were hesitant on, a hoppy brown from Ghost Town called Rust & Ruin.
Aside from Femme Fest, we also discussed Lacey's attempts to get into improv at the age of 12, why she loves a good saison, merch-making, marketing, corporate comedy, and how local news journalists have some of the worst background work instincts on the planet.
All this and more on...Bevy of Bevvies? Bevs with Ben? What Are You Drinking? Let's Grab a Drink? Imbibin' with Ben? If you have an idea, let me know!
As always, you can folow me across social media (but really just Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) @barleyandmepod. You can also visit www.barleyandmepod.com to find out what projects I'm working on, latest episodes, and my comedy shows.
Thanks for listening!
Today, we're talking to improvisor Lacey Carroll (@lacey.m.carroll) about this weekend's (Friday March 28/Saturday March 29, 2025) Femme Fest at Sacramento Comedy Spot (tickets at www.saccomedyspot.com/femmefest) while seated on the patio at Sacramento's first Belgian beer bar, Pangaea Bier Cafe.
Lacey is a big fan of saisons, so we started with Sante Adairius's Jaybird, a foudre-aged saison with mango. We then tried a beer both of us were hesitant on, a hoppy brown from Ghost Town called Rust & Ruin.
Aside from Femme Fest, we also discussed Lacey's attempts to get into improv at the age of 12, why she loves a good saison, merch-making, marketing, corporate comedy, and how local news journalists have some of the worst background work instincts on the planet.
All this and more on...Bevy of Bevvies? Bevs with Ben? What Are You Drinking? Let's Grab a Drink? Imbibin' with Ben? If you have an idea, let me know!
As always, you can folow me across social media (but really just Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) @barleyandmepod. You can also visit www.barleyandmepod.com to find out what projects I'm working on, latest episodes, and my comedy shows.
Thanks for listening!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
They call it functional alcoholism.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
But if you know anything about Ben, he's got vision
with precision microphones.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And the tinkle love derision.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Here about to hear what beer can be. It's time
for Barley and Me. Welcome to Barley. He presents BEVs
with Ben, a bevy of Bevyes, Bevy's with Ben, or
(00:33):
BEVs with Ben, or bevy of BEVs or bevy of
Bevities or whatever I'm calling this. I'm your host, Ben Rice.
We're here today at Pangaea Beer Cafe in Sacramento, California, speaking.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
With Lacy Carrol, and we're talking about Benfest. I'm very
excited about it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Great now, so you've already got it out there. What
is Feenfest?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So Bemefest is an all fe fem identifying comedy festival
that is hosted by this Sacramento comedy spot. And we
are putting together people from all across California. We have
performers that are stand ups, sketch and improvisers coming up
from La the Bay Area. We do have someone from Oregon,
(01:16):
so we have one out of state. I'm very excited
for that state. Oh yes, oh yes. And of course
we have some local talent as well, and it is
going to be March twenty eighth and twenty ninth. There
are four blocks of comedy that we are doing and
it will be a mix of stand up, sketch and improv.
And we also have a full weekend pass and if
(01:39):
you are an improviser and you're interested, we also have
some workshops available for improvisers and for aspiring improvisers. So
we have one that is available for a more advanced
improviser and that is by Michelle Gilliam and she is
coming up from La She's amazing. I learned from her
a few years ago and adore her. And we also
(02:02):
have who I consider one of the goats of improv
in Sacramento, Justine Lopez, and she is teaching a drop
in class. So that's for everyone nice and I love that.
And that will be Saturday morning on the twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Which I was going to say twenty eight, twenty ninth,
that's Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Is it an all day thing? Is there start time
for it?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So we it is not an all day thing. It's evening.
So the start time is seven thirty and shows will
the blocks of shows are from seven thirty till about
eight thirty or nine, and then nine thirty to about
ten thirty or eleven, you know, with a variety things
are you know, a little fluid, and I produce another
(02:45):
variety show and I know that you know, there's fifteen
minutes of whiggle room.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's this range. Yes, we don't want to
be too tight on it. We don't want to let
it go too loose. I know all about it, all right.
So the content for this new podcast is that it's
not just a beerd podcast because people are drinking less.
You know, people like I don't really want to drink
beer anymore, and I'm like, ah, well, I really want
to talk to this person, so let's just find their
favorite beverages and drink them. Now. You've made a selection today,
(03:10):
lazy of what we're drinking. Yes, and just because I
know we we.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We changed it last minute.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, we changed locations and beverages, so.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I hope I'm I'm saying this right. It's the Jaybird,
which I can say, You've got that right from sante
A Diaria, Okay, sante A Darius. And the style is
well it's an age say song with mango, yes, which
I'm excited about. Yeah, I'm a Mango Gurley.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And you're also a say Song Gurley.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I am a Seysan Gurley. Especially when it's this hot out.
If this is the first hot day.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
This year, it's a second hot day, I think.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, okay, correct me.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I think, well, I mean, what's your definition of hot?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's true. It's this first hot day that I've been outside.
I think the first hot day that happened, I was
Gremlin and I was like, I'm not going outside. So
it's the first hot day I'm experiencing of this year,
and I'm a little mad about it.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah. I was like I went outside at like now,
and I'm like, what is this? Because I never look
at the I never look at the weather. I have
no idea is It's like, yeah, I don't know how
it's hot, you go outside. That's what I learned. I'm like, oh, well,
I didn't expect that. I didn't Yesterday was not hot.
Why is today hot?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yesterday was incredibly pleasant. I walked around, I did some
flyering for Femfest, and I was like, this is the
perfect day. It's like seventy degrees. That's my perfect day.
Today is eighty five and when you go from like
sixties and seventies to eighty five, that's a shock. Yeah,
And I know in July I'm going to be wishing
(04:45):
for these days, for the eighty five degree days.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But your body is set for seventies. Yes, and now
it's it's doing this.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I come from a long line of farmers that
are from not hot climates, okay, and I also am
from a very not hot climate. So moving here, so
you've moved from the tundra. Oh yes, well I've moved
from a coastal city.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I grew up in a coastal city. But my my family,
you know, they their roots are in England and Ireland,
and you know they they're pasty people.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So you're you're a coastal elite, is apparently. No.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I just like fog, I really do. I love a
good fog and we just don't get it enough here.
Ye yeah, I know, and so uh yeah, anytime it
starts to heat up, I I question why I moved here,
but then I remember how much I love it, and
I love that. I love the community here in Sacramento
(05:48):
so much, and you don't have that in other places,
so it keeps me here but the heat makes me grumbly.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, quick question, Yeah, what are you looking for in
a Sayson? When you get a Sayson? What are the
thing that you want out of?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh my gosh. Okay, So I haven't tried it yet
and I'm very I want to try. I wanted to
wait to try it on air. I want something bright
and zippy. I think when I think of a seysan
and it's warm out, that's like those two things go together.
So I want something refreshing and crispy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Almost like a like a citrusy lemonie.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, kick, Yes, I want a nice crisp So I am.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
How are you about barnyard like hay straw kind of
it depends.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I like a grassy hay kind of vibe occasionally, but
it has to be done well. I have had Oh
I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna crap all
over a certain thing, but I've had one that I
just didn't like. It tasted like I was chewing cud.
You know, I'm just like, well, but that being said,
I like when it has some grassy notes to it.
(06:53):
So yeah, this is with mango, so we'll we'll see.
I want yeah, oh that is nice and cheers. This
is nice and fruity.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I like that. Okay, Yeah, how are you feeling about it?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's a little not temperature wise, the taste is warmer
than I expected.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, does yeah, a little more alcohol kickup?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. I would probably. I don't
know if I could drink like. It isn't giving as
much warm day vibes as I was expecting, okay, because
it does have a little warmth to it, But I
do like it. I think it has like a refreshing note.
I don't taste the mango.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh really, not really. Oh, I was like the mango's
kind of overpowering a little bit of stuff in here.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I smell the mango, let me, let me taste again.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But I also do pick up stone fruit a lot
stronger in flavors than my tongue. Just it's like, oh,
that's in there. I told I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Taste so okay, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
A tasting thing for me.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I taste lemony.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, I like I like it. No, it's you're right,
lemon probably is now it's like it sticks around longer.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm tasting the lemon as it like sits
on my tongue. But I do like it. It's it's zippy,
it has a little crispiness to it. I wouldn't say
it's my favorite, saythng I've ever had, but it's it's
doing the job. Yeah, I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah. And the fun part is that we're supposed to
have like your favorite drink, and then they're like, we're
out of it, and we're like, all right, well we'll
get the thing that we'll experiment with. Ye's the second drink.
We're going to get some Maybe we'll find an old
standby that's on the board. Yeah, later and we'll just
do It's like, it's not my favorite, but I've had it. Yeah,
I'm bye with it. Yeah, we'll make this podcast. I
don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Really, we're just here to talk about you and themfest,
which also it's not the first femfest.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
No, this is the second femfest, but it's the first
one in six years.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah. I was like, so the first one.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Happened in twenty nineteen, and then I don't know if
you remember, a little thing happened in twenty twenty that
like changed things a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, I bought a house.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh cool, Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I remember that. Yeah, the big thing that everybody knows it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone knows that Ben Rice bought a
house that year. Yeah, so that got canceled. And then,
you know, coming back from the pandemic, it was like,
let's see what's working, what's happening finding you know, the
comedy spot finding their footing again, and pretty much all
businesses that are brick and mortar, especially theaters, finding their
(09:22):
footing again. And now is the time for Femfest to
come back and show off some women's voices, some fem
voices rebranded with some cool pinks and yellows. We've got
We've got fun rebranding and yeah, I'm really excited about it.
We we have a lot of local talent that I
(09:44):
absolutely adored. If we could, if we could feature more
local talent, I would love that. But you know, this
was this was a year of regrowth and seeing what
we can do, and hopefully next year we can bring
it back even bigger and better. So yeah, exactly three,
that's the plan. Yeah, that's the plan. The whole weekend
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh longer, longer sets. But
(10:05):
we just wanted to. We want to see Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, you're out here today. You're like, it's a little
bit hotter than I thought. Let's yep, well let's put
the toe in the ready for this?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Absolutely yeah, yep, exactly. Yeah. So we have you know
a couple of local improv. We have Lady Business, which
you know, if you're in the comedy scene in Sacramento,
you know that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's over a decade run in fifteen.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
They're hitting fifteen years this month, I think or next
month something like that. So they are you know, stallwarts
of the you know, Sacramento comedy scene. Of course they're
going to be playing. And then we have a newer
team like Stem Fatales yep, and I love that. I'm
very excited. They've been doing stuff for about a year
or so. And then we have my team which is GGT.
(10:54):
It's Girls, Gays and the Ace and uh, it's a
variety show, but we are doing an improv only because
every single set is you know, twenty five minutes versus
an hour long. So yeah, we're doing some improv as gut,
but we're doing all femprov instead of uh, you know, girls,
Gays and Nights. So We're we're having the Femme presenting
people on the team representing.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So I'm excited, Hey, fellas, get out of here, Yeah
get out. Yeah, not welcome here.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah for one weekend. Happy to have them back in June,
which is our next dogt but yeah, I'm really excited
for that. And then we have we have some amazing
non local talent as well. So we've got Natasha Muse
who Yeah, she's i mean talk about funny in the
(11:43):
bones truly. And then we have like improv duo coming
up from La Dock of the Bay. These two ladies
are hilarious. I mean, they they're a duo. They they
can sustain like a full hour show, no problem. But
they're going to be regale us with thirty minutes of
their insanely good improv. And we also have a really
(12:04):
cool thing called the Creative Cauldron and all of the
performers and veterans performers at Femfest, Comedy Spot Veterans are
going to be putting on a showcase. So that's really cool,
and it's going to be hosted by Hope Hope Richards,
So I'm really upcited.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, who kind of bridges that gap because she was
in LA for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know she's kind of
old school and new school because she started off at
Comedy Sports and Comedy Spot here a long time ago,
went to LA and now she's back at the Comedy
Spot and so she's doing Helix. So she bridges all
the gaps, which is really cool. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Who else is organized besides.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yourself and her myself, hope, Sarah agamahammedi okay, And we
have Jenni Sports. Oh well, you're gonna have to have
her on. She's a blast. You probably know Alex Shoemaker.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, you're going to meet them at the game sometimes
I'm seen. I get that, I get that, I get that.
And yeah, we have a lot of people helping, volunteering
behind the scenes as well. Of course, you know obviously
Tina and Brian, but we have Casey Shenkara, We've got
Amy Nelson. We've got a lot of people helping out,
(13:17):
you know, whether it's flying we have Michelle Petro, you know,
just flying, creating buttons, reaching out for sponsors, reaching out
to you know, so it is, I know, it's that's
the thing. You know, when you're putting on an event,
it's like a it's months long process for like, you know,
a few minutes of glory.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, it's the one thing I hate.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I enjoy it because I'm a weirdo.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I hate flying. I hate oh yeah. I was like,
I'm saying, I don't want to I can't sell this
to you. I'm like, I'm so flying to bother you say, no, okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I try to make it a fun like I I
find if I bodied ub with someone, meaning like, if
I go with another person, I'm just so much better
at it. If I do it alone. I do struggle.
I struggle to get motivated to walk into a you know,
when we were supposed to meet this morning, and I
was like, you know what, I'm just gonna go flying.
I have a little time. So I just went around.
(14:17):
I walked around and I'm just like, uh, I don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Do but I don't want to bother somebody. Yes, that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But here's the thing what I noticed about themfest especially,
I walked into salons and I'm like, hi, ladies, we
have an all female comedy festival. And they're like, what,
Oh my gosh, so I think it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, you got to find the spots that like, yeah,
support it, like yeah yeah, like yeah, you want to
do things that we're not competing with their business. Also,
you're not competing with the salon's business, and their clientele
are absolutely going to be interested in that product. Yes, yes,
say yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And I forgot to mention Justine Lopez has really helped
out with THEMFEST too. I didn't. I'm like trying to
make sure I don't drop any names that I've forgotten
that have helped out incredibly with them FEST. But yeah,
we we've we've done flyering and buttoning and T shirt
making and all that all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
So yeah, but sorry, I got to think of that anyway.
They're cheap, they're easy, right, there's a button you press.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yes, there's a little button machine you can get. Yeah,
it's fun. I like to play that music that used
to play in Mooney Tunes anytime there's a factory scene.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Dude, dude, the kids.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and you just you just
pressure to keep going and if it's fun, it can
be fun.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, but I got to cut out those circles and.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, there's a there's a circle presser.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh, it's like it'll cut it for you and then
you just get it. Okay, Yeah, there's a whole okay
that Yeah, I'll still mess it up.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Well, it's after a while. Listen. Did I mess up
a few buttons or twelve?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yes, but out of two hundred, I messed up twelve.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That's pretty low cost.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So it's not like you're thrown away dozens of dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No, maybe maybe maybe fives of dollars. Yeah, maybe maybe
two five's worth of dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, so still under a dozen, under a dozen, under
a dozen, ten is under a dozen? Yeah yeah. And
with the return yeah long and also you know you
can do it. The nice part is you've got promo
all year long for your next ones.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, because we didn't put a year on it. I
was like, I don't want a year on it because
then it can be promo and yeah crossover yeah so yeah,
yeah yeah and excited. Yeah. So I don't know if
you because we're we're meeting for the first time. Yes, correct,
But I have been in the improv world since I
(16:41):
was twelve and I'm forty, but not in Sacramento. I
started in San Francisco at twelve. Well, I was doing
theater and stuff, but I started at twelve because I
saw whose line as most people did you know, Comedy
Central or whatever, And I said, I don't know what
that is, but I want to do it. And my
dad had to call so many places in the yellow
(17:03):
Pages because I'm old and.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't even know to look up I think he
looked up theater.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't know. I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You have an improv class? Do you have an improv class?
Do you have an improv Yeah? Like what is that?
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well a lot of them did, but they were for
adults only. And he said, I want my twelve year
old daughter to do it. She really wants to do it,
and she needs an outlet because she's driving me nuts,
probably what he said. And no one wanted to take
a kid. So he called the nicest lady back. Her
name was Marcia, Marcia Kimmel, and uh she he said, listen,
(17:38):
you are the nicest one, and you were the only
one that gave me recommendations to call other theaters and
call you know, kids camps and everything. And there were
theater camps, but I had done that and I didn't
want to do that. I want to be funny, and
she said, okay, I'll I'll do it, but you I
don't want a babysit, so you have to do it
with her. So my dad and I started doing it
(17:59):
when I was well, and he was good at it.
He you know, it's so funny because I think back
and he was probably about my age now when I
started doing improv and on the car rides home and go, oh,
lace was that good? Did I do a good job?
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's fine. But he had
adult brain where it was like thinking about all the
things he messed up. Yeah, And at twelve I didn't
(18:23):
give a crap. I was like, I was funny, this
is great. I'm hilarious, you know because everyone laughs at
the twelve year old too. So I realized in retrospect,
you know, as an adult doing improv, when you have
that drive home, when you have a show or a
something you did just didn't you didn't like it, And
I'm like, god, man, was that good? And I'm like,
(18:43):
oh my god, I sorry dad for not recognizing.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, yes, yeah the.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Artist, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So yeah, but I stopped
doing improv for a good long while in between. Yeah,
so I found my home.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I stopped there.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now. I so I from like twelve to twenty two,
and then I stopped. I didn't have the money or
the time. You know, I had to work, and I
ended up you know, raising kids and stuff like that.
So I had to take care of that. And then
when I was about thirty five, I came back to improv.
(19:21):
So I took a like a twelve year hiatus, which
is a good junk.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, but you got all this life experience. You've seen
some characters, Oh yeah, some voices.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh yeah, I'm much better at improv now I'm more
in my head about it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Ohays, Yeah, that's the worst part.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, because I'm an adult and I have adult problems,
but adult sads, Yeah, bills and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, but it's never ending pursuit of perfection that can't
be reached.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, but that's always the fun of it too.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, you get close, but then well I said this
one thing's true and the whole thing, and then you
just got to let that not eat. Like ribber, I
did really good on these other things, and that's what's important.
Nothing it's going to happen don't worry about it. It's
gonna you could. I can say that right now. It's
not how I react after I'm on stage. Yeah, I'm
(20:06):
gonna have that thing. You'd be up for a day.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah. I usually I give myself until I go to
bed that night. And I said, he that is my
If I'm mad at something I did or disappointed in myself,
I have till the end of the night and then
I gotta get over this.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
By next morning, I gotta shut up. I can't say
a damn thing about it, and I gotta move on.
And I usually do.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah. And it comes with practice.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, like when you're just starting, oh man, you yourself
oh man, or you have no self referential points and
you're like, I'm the best thing that's.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Every Well yeah, there's two two. That's a double edged
short there. Yeah. If you I will say this, if
anyone's listening to this, who is new at improv, If
you haven't gotten off stage and felt shit about something
you've done, I don't know, good for you, I guess,
but that it's it's normal. It's normal you're gonna get
(20:58):
off stage and go oof. But I what I love
about being on a team and being close with people
that I do improv with. Sometimes if we have a
bad show, you get off stage and you can laugh
about it and go, oh my god, do you remember
when you did that? Oh yeah, that was garbage and
we can laugh. So there's camaraderie and and improv versus.
You know when I when I tried stand up, and.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's a different game, right it is. Yeah. I went
from stand up, I tried to do improm We did
some classes and Brian was teaching at the time, and man,
I was like, you know what the important thing is
is that everybody else in this class is learning what
not to do.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I love that, but you know, stand up is such
a skill that you have to you know, you have
to stand in your truth, man, and that is sometimes
quite tough because.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You gotta get real comfortable silence.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I you know. I I
did because I used to do sketchy a lot, and
sketch has similar tendencies. If you write a sketch that's
not hitting, you still have to hit those lines. You
can't improvise your way out of.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It, can't cut it. Yeah, you're like we wrote to
the end. Yes, you have to go to the end. Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And I used to do a sketch thing where it
was just one person on stage. It was a character
like circus where you would have them come through and
it was a bunch of different characters. And I wrote
this one character and it just did not hit with
the audience at all. And I had seven minutes on
stage of that, and I thought, my god, that was
only seven minutes. Some comics have to sit up there
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for a freaking twenty minute hour. Yeah, oh I would.
I don't know, I'd.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Run way out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But the nice part, like you can always it's it's nice,
but it's also not fun. It's like figuring out where
to dance around. Yeah, like self resh and like with
a sketch, it's harder because you can't really break character
right comedy like stand up you can, Yes, but you
know what, that's not working. I'm gonna do a different tag.
You know, I'm going to I'm going to make fun
of how bad that failed, and I'm going to move
to this other Yeah. R skeed you like, I'm this
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character until I'm no longer this character. Yeah, And I'm
the characters the ship says, I'm not yep. So that's tough.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes, I that's I like to improvise my way out
of a situation. I I told a story not long ago,
and I could tell the audience wasn't on my side
and it was a personal story, but I made myself
the villain and they were not digging that. And I
was like, oh, I got to dig myself out of
this hole. And I did because I have enough years
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under my you know, under my belt to now know that,
oh I need to I need to make this audience
like me in some way. But if that was a sketch,
I'd be, you know, up a creek.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'd like, well, okay, making you the villain it usually
works so well, you know, because like you're not making
fun of somebody else, like we're all laughing at this person. Yeah,
this is the person that's making a mistake. Yes, I
think that's an important part of comedy. It's like I'm
not if I'm going to tell a story that maybe
has like, hey, somebody's got to be the bad guy,
is you?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely? And uh, you know, I I told
a story where you know, I did not help a
person that was falling and instead I but listen, I
was on the news, and I was a teenager, and
I was nervous, and I I just let them fall.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Uh, what could you have done? Realistically?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Fallen with them because we were going upstairs and they
were ahead of me on the stairs, and I watched
her fall and instead I just used because there was
railing on either side, and I just lifted myself and
she fell and slid under me. And it was my
best friend. Yeah, I'm the villain, I get it. See.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, And that's very funny. I don't know why people
were laughing at that. That's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, but listen if she's listening, Sorry, Nicole, she knows,
she knows. She let me many times.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
She's like, look, I've only done the to one friend. Hopefully,
hopefully you've only done to one friend.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Listen, it's not your best friend. You laugh, like at
the time, she was my bestest, closest friend. You laugh
when your best friend falls. Yeah, that's just how it is.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I have a friend that fell and it took like
twelve seconds and none of us trying to stop it.
It was the funniest things. Just so slow on this fall.
It was it was like it was in slow motion. Yes,
and I'm like, is he doing this for He's caught himself.
Surely he's got it's going so slow that he's doing
this for exaggeration, and.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
He just face, Oh man, you know, we just thought.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You were joking, Like we saw you trip. We knew
the trip was real, and we thought you would caught yourself,
and You're like, I'm going to play it up and
I'm going to do it slow slide.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But they just like, oh man, you know, And that's
a part of it. I think if it was I
don't know at the time. You know, I was. I
was in the background of a TV news segment, okay,
and I was nervous. I knew I was nervous.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Just why you go upstairs?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It was Abraham Lincoln's birthday and we were at the
place that he died. We were just happened to be visiting.
So there was a lady, you know, news you know,
on the street, you know whatever, was saying, we are
here at Abraham Lincoln's place of death, and it is
his birthday, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Blah, and that's where we celebrate birthdays where someone died. Yeah,
Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah they should be in Illinois.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, that's where it go to the link. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
why where he died.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, it was it was across from the theater. Yeah,
and uh yeah, it was like some random house, but
we were visiting. We happened to be walking up the
stairs and I was like, oh my gosh, the TV news.
That's a year and we're sixteen years old, so we're
very excited.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah so you miss a step.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
She missed it.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You walk just perfectly.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, so all you see I don't know, I don't
know what all they saw, but it was you can't
there wasn't there was railing, but it was solid, so
they couldn't see her fall. But they did see a
head go missing and me probably go a little higher
and then just keep walking. Yeah, so you know, yeah,
that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Walking in with your head held high, that's it's important.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yes, and I did. I wanted to make sure Lincoln's
death place knew that I was walking in there with
my head held high. And I am not a clumsy person.
In fact, I am quite limber, and.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I could even dodge the clumsy people in a moment's notice. Yes,
did you hear her squealing? Because I yell step on
her hands. No, because I didn't do it because I'm
very good at this exactly exactly, and I have learned
and this is not going to be a great story.
We'll just cut. I've learned that the news is not
good at what to do with background people anyway, because
I was on the news once for as I was
(27:44):
like ten, and like, oh, just act like you're like
friends and you're telling jokes and laughing, and we were
there after a child had died. What so that's what's
in the background is kids laughing and joking it up.
We're talking about a child who had died on our block.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What a weird direct, Yeah, what a weird prompt for
them to give you.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, Like that's the same people like we should go
to where Lincoln died for his birthday? The same people.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I know that is a strange Yeah, yeah, that that
is a strange take in hindsight, you know, my sixteen
year old brain was just excited to be potentially on.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The ground of Yeah, a ten year old brain, I'm
like absolutely going to be on TV. Yeah dope, yeah, yes,
there's is about say.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You can explained off Scotch in the background.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's insane in like a residential neighbor, not
on a school or anything. You know, Just what are
we doing? I do have a very important question. I
think the whole listening audience is wondering it this sketch
character that you had to pull for seventy minutes that
people hated? What was it?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Oh my gosh, I should I knew I should have character. Okay,
so it was a lounge singer.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, people hate them. Yep.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well I redid this character for the comedy spot and
it went well. Okay, so I will say it might
have been the audience. No, it was me. It was
one hundred percent. But it was a lounge singer and
she I really am obsessed with like old lady lounge singers.
And she would make up cocktail names of all of
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the patrons, so I would ask the patron's name, and
we already had like patrons planted. It was not improv
I wish it was. It would have been so much better.
It was improv but we had like different things like
I'm your name is Steven, and we slept together in
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nineteen twenty seven, and I remember you had a little pickle,
so I put a little pickle in this cocktail. You know,
it's just silly stuff, but that's what we did. And
people just weren't into it. And the patron said nothing.
It was me and I was standing out there with
a piano player, but he also said nothing. And we
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had rehearsed the songs. The songs were funny, I thought,
but no, they weren't into it. They weren't into it.
And and in San Francisco there's like there's a vibe there.
You know, the audiences aren't as generous as Sacramento. They
when they laugh, they go.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh yeah, I San Francisco crowds are weird.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think there's a politeness there. I'm from there.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
There's a there's a I don't want to be a
part of this where it's hurting someone, Yes, but also
if you like like that might be hateful towards someone
or mean to someone. I don't want to be the
person who laughs in that kind of thing. But if
you're in San Francisco and you do an anti Asian
joke like this is the funniest thing I've ever heard
in my life, and I'm like, hold on a second,
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you can't do both.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, they they there's a there's a weird diconomy. I
you know, I moved from there a long time ago,
but I from there. I claim myself as a as
a Bay Area and I grew up in San Francisco proper.
And yeah, there's there's a lack of comfort within yourself
at those audiences. I have attended shows there and you're like,
(31:15):
huh oh wait, okay. I'm a generous laugher, yeah, because
I know what it's like to be on the other side.
So I will laugh my ass off for someone. But
sometimes even if it's mid level funny, I will hut
guffaw ycause.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You got to get something.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get the work. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
And it did Gardner a reaction. Yes, a lot of
people stifle it. They were like, I don't want to
be the only one laughing. I don't want to be
the person who like I remember us doing a comedy
competition when I was early early comedy, and it was
like a lot of darker, dirtier material and like I crushed.
I crushed, right, But then like time to vote, and
nobody voted for me, damn. And it's because they all
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were like, I feel guilty about laughing about what you said. Like,
in hindsight, I should have laughed at that, and therefore
you don't wait, I'm like, but I did make you
laugh though, I got past your defenses, yeah, and made
you laugh. So it's tough.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's it's tough because I think I think people if
they're in a level of comfort, you know, it's this
is why I always tell people, if you're on a
first date, it's hard to go to a stand up
show because it's tough.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But you also, but if you're on a fourth date,
that's when you go because you need to know what
their their sense of humor is.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, what their pushes are.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, but first date is a big no go for me.
I would never.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I would never. Yeah, and especially an open mic. I've
seen that. I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's a wild take, That is a wild choices.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, one of you makes bad choices. Yeah, and the
other one.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's just going along. Yeah, run run, Like.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Maybe I'm wrong about comedy on the first date. Oh no,
I was correct, I was correct.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Okay, yeah, no, no, I think it depends. You know,
you do need to know what the other person thinks.
It's funny, but you don't need to know right away.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, and they're gonna try to like hide things, so
then you're both just uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's not good.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I love comedy, don't do it as a first date.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, yeah, I I also went to a I made
the mistake. Well, it wasn't me. I was I was
a part of a touring group and our first day
was going to a comedy show. And I didn't know
any of these people. None of these people knew me,
so we didn't know what.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
To last at comedy work eventage, Like, why would anyone
do this?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I had to do so back in the day, I well,
well I thought I had to. My troop would do
improv for work places and like put on a show. No,
oh that would be horrendous. No, no, we were hired
to be you know, like, let's say we are hired
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by Google, right to go do an improv show. Those
are the freaking worst. Nobody wants to laugh at certain things.
Everyone's looking around, Oh what does the boss think is funny?
And we'll laugh at that. So you need to figure
out who the boss is and who everyone's looking to
and make that person laugh.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh geez, yeah, it's like, look, it pays well, but
it's a nightmare for everybody. Yeah, I appreciate the money. Yeah,
don't do this to your employees. Yeah, just stop stop it. Yeah,
like thank you. Don't do this to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh yeah sure, oh yeah, it's terrible. It's terrible. But
I also know if you can, if you can find
a boss with a good sense of humor. We did
have a really good show once at this place, but
that was the one out of like ten we did
and no thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, but the.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Boss had a great sense of humour, loved improv, so
he was laughing and so everyone else laughed.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah. My last two bosses know how to do stand up.
And every time we do like a meeting, like you're
gonna do something, I'm like, no, I'm never gonna do
that in this space. Are you kidding me? It's never
gonna happen. Stop asking.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I teach at conferences and not nothing to do with
improv or anything. I teach at photography conferences across the nation,
and when I tell them I do improv, they go,
jo us a joke. Well I'm not a stand up first,
that's number one. Two, what do you want me to do,
find a prop and tell you what it isn't like
get out of here. Yeah, you know, I will do
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my one. Uh. I guess bar trick or parlor trick
or whatever party trick, whatever you want to call it is.
I'm good at puns. So I will say I will
play the sex with me game. Do you know that game?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Is like?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Sex with me is like a blank I blank blank blank?
You know. So I do that sometimes and they are
very impressed, but it has to be.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
The right place because you can't do sex with me
is like at you.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Know, no, no, So I will do hey waiter, that's
another one. But hey waiter, there's a blank in my soup.
And you know, but I hate it. I feel like
I'm suddenly the clown that has been hired by these people,
and I'm like, oh, this is terrible. So I've stopped
telling people I do impress.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I Uh. What I will do is I will
just do this joke that somebody else told me. I'm
like this, I'll tell it. It's not my joke, but
I'll tell you. You have to hear a joke. Here's a joke.
Knock knock.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Do you want me to say?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, who's there, Smell.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Mop, Smell Mop?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Who it works?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It does? I yeah, I I yep, you have to
you have to like, ah, you do have to find
that one. That one bit and I used to have
a stand up bit, and then like ten years later,
I saw a comic do it much better than me.
It was I can't remember his name, he's really freaking funny,
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but I saw him do it at a clusterfest. I
was like, son of a bitch. That was my one
joke that like hit all the time when I did
do stand up and it was You're not an adult
until you buy close at Costco kind of vibe. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, okay,
So he did that joke so much better than I've
ever done it in my entire life. But I did
have that choke.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Okay, it's a great concept.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yes, I had that joke back in like two thousand
and four or something, because you know it, the concept
is there, and I my whole thing because I was
younger at the time. I said, I can't wait till
I'm a full adult when I walk into Costco and
say ooh that's cute. That was my That was my joke.
His has done much better also.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Watched that special.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It's incredible, incredible, incredible. I haven't watched the special, but
I watched him live and I was like, oh man,
this motherfucker's finding as fun. Yeah, the Clusterfest was a
clusterfuck but lots, yes, but lots of funny people. There
lots of funny people.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I think we've run our time, we did it. Do
we have time for a second drink? I don't know
if we do, that's up to you. That's up to you.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I talked way too fucking much.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Well, we were talking about, well, we got to get
through this whole lineup. We should probably, we should probably
get through. We should probably get some lias to that.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Okay, Yeah, I'm I'm a chatty. I'm okay, that's fine,
I'll get that that. Yeah, I've never had it, but
unless you want to get something that's familial, get the
smallest one.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Sunday we're back with a second drink. This is the
one I chose.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
I'm sorry, Oh no, I'm happy. I'm excited for this.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
So it's a it's a ghost town rise and ruin
hoppy brown Ale, which I thought was a weird descriptor.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Also, U it is six point six six percent.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Okay, what was the last one? I didn't I didn't
even say.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I think it was we did, did the Jbird?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yes? But what was it? Seven? Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
It was like seven point four ok yeah, but I
only because it's six point sixty six, you know, Okay,
six six six Mark of the Beast, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Happy Brown, Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Ghostand which is known for its hoppy beers.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
It's got a little creamy talk to it. Okay. Yeah,
it smells a little chocolatey and fruity all at once.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
That's peculiar. I'm gonna call it peculiar.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, I like it. I actually like this and normal.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
It's very chocolate.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, I you know, I I before we got on air,
I was talking about Oscar Blues and they have a
really chocolatey I pa that I like. I can't remember
the name of. But I feel like this one will
get better as it warms.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, this is nice.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah. So now we've got to talk in order for
it to warm up.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
So we fmfest Yes, Friday and Saturday, Mark Sacmut Comedy Spot.
That's the one on Jay Street, twentieth and J.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yes, it is. If you've gone to Faces or low
brow or bad lands.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
It's over there right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't get confused. No,
that comedy spot, yes, dock.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Comy, Yes, oh you got that right, that's good.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Uh, company spot on Instagram, I know, hmm yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Crawls home addresses, I do know.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I think it's ten to fifty. No, that's the that's
the Uh. The comedy spot address is ten to fifty twentieth.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
And parking is terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yes, sometimes you know what good, sometimes it's good. It's
been good lately, knock on wood. But you know, plan
accordingly for Femfest because it will be you know, it
looks as though we have sold quite a few tickets.
So speaking of ticket prices, yes, it is twenty dollars
a block, or you can get a weekend pass which
is a steal for sixty dollars. And that is all
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four shows, which means it is a lot of people.
There are like forty acts for sixty dollars. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, that's four dollars an act.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
And then some change, yes, some change in there.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Some of those acts are more than one person. Like
we said we got a ten person group, we got
five or six people group.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Oh, yeah, do you want me to talk more about
some people. So we have SaaS Sisters, which are all
the fem people of Sas Factory, which is a wonderful
group out of the Bay Area, and they do improv
and I'm really excited because they I've met some of
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them at improv camp. I am that kind of nerd.
I go to improv camp and uh, they are some
of the funniest people that I've been able to play
with at improv camp. So I'm really excited to see
them take the stage at the Comedy Spot. This is
their first time coming up and performing at the Comedy Spot.
So we have some first timers, and we have some
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people that have been around for a while or coming back,
like Temple Kirk, the Bard, and she is she was
in Eugene organ but she was here for a while
as well, so she's been at the Comedy Spot before
and she's coming back and I'm really excited to welcome
her back to the Comedy Spot stage. And she is
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a stand up and she sings because she is the Bard,
and I'm really excited to see her back at the
Comedy Spot. And we also have, you know, like I said,
some stalwarts we have Melissa McGillicutty. Yeah, if you again,
like I said about Lady Business, if you are in
the Sacramento comedy community, you know the name Melissa yeah
(42:33):
g McK g. I like to say because it's mew
Lissa on Instagram. Yeah, because she talks about her catalot. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Also, one time she did a show at that room
above Harlow's and they have a couch on the back
of it and she like just loungeing it like a
cat for half a set and it was so good.
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Her ease on stage and her chill presence is just
such a delight. She has been on GGT several times.
As you know, we usually have two to three stand
ups on our variety show and she always brings it.
And she's just one of those people that's just so solid.
She she always has a solid set. I love watching her.
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And yeah, we have a lot of a lot of
good groups. We also have women of Squad Patrol Okay, Sketch,
so it's all the ladies. Sorry. Marco, he's wonderful and
guess what he's he he's hair like like Jesus. A
lot of people say he looks like Jesus. If you've
seen Marco walking around, you're like, hey, who's that. Oh
(43:36):
it's Marco, It's not Jesus. And the women of Squad
Squad Patrol have some amazing sketches that they've written, and uh,
they're going to be bringing it to the stage. So
I'm excited to see that as well. I know we
have a few more, but I wanted to talk about
just in general, kind of the vibes that we're bringing
to the CLERB. Does that make sense? We are selling
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some shirts, We've got some some buttons. It's gonna be
fun times. We also are gonna have a little hang
time in between the shows. Okay, so you can hang
out with the comics, you can hang out with the improvisers.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
I was gonna ask because there's one thing that happens
after an improv show, and that's improv people being out
in public together. Yeah, and that's annoying a thing that happens.
Here's the thing I was like, is this opportunity out there,
because I think there's a it's for a specific type
of person. Yeah, it's in a specific mood. Yes, if
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you're into it, it's very fun. If you're like, oh,
my god, are we really doing this. We're in public,
We're in public, everyone can see and hear us.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
It's golden retriever and black cat energy. Right, It's like
that dichotomy. And yes, most improvisers are considered the golden
retrievers of comedy. But I will say in my you know,
I now teach and coach, and in my opinion, I
think some of the best improvisers are introverts because they're
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always mindful and being mindful and improv is very important.
So not everyone is a Golden retriever. However, we're gonna
be hanging out on the boardwalk. You can chat with us.
We're not gonna do improvs bits I would. I would
literally run screaming if that happened. We're just gonna be
hanging out.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
You might do some improv games, let's face as one
might slip in there.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
If it does, I am running.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
If someone does, no one does, like Gastan, it's not
gonna en.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Someone starts singing.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah, oh no, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, I don't think that's the vibe. I think the
vibes chill. The vibes chill, hang out. Ask us questions.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
It's the last time that happened. It was when we
were all very young. Oh yeah, and so now seasoned
vets right now, Yes, done that.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
There's a lot of wizened humans on the stage.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You know, we'll go do karaoke to get our attend kicks.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yes, yes, yeah, We've got people, you know you young
at heart some of us, and some of us are
actually young. We have Ashley Monique. I don't know her age,
but I'm gonna say she's young. She strikes me as
young as does Becky Lynn. We've got Becky Lynn. We've
got uh oh yeah, and we've got but I'm an
old person, and uh yeah, I think we in the Coven.
(46:20):
The Coven is also from San Francisco and they're an
improv troop. But we we have we have uh yeah,
we have people that have been around the block. So
we're not going to be doing you know, cheerleader pyramids
for you out on the board walk. That would be insane.
We're just hanging, we're drinking a beer, we're uh we're chatting, chatting, chatting.
Yeah yeah. And if you've been to the comedy spot before,
(46:43):
you know that they have a really good bar, really
good sneaky snacks, and now a popcorn machine. Oh yeah,
you can.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Get some popcorn, get extra butter.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I don't know. I don't work the bar, but you
know what, I bet you you could question for Patrick. Yeah, Patrick,
Trica got you there, and also Tina, she's gonna be
working the bar. But also we do have little little
shakers to go on top of the So there's like
cheddar and halopeno. So we got some fans. There's a
(47:14):
volapeno cheddar mix thing powder that you could put on
your popcorn and I tried it and it was delicious.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
That sounds great. All right, have we gotten through everybody?
We talked about Natasha earlier?
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Oh my gosh, I want to know why my beer
is blocking her? So Lord is freaking hilarious. I bit
my tongue so I can't say Lord correctly. But oh
my gosh. I did a show with her not that
long ago. It was like called stand up and sing
(47:52):
just to yeah, okay, we had to do like singing
off of people's stand up and uh it was her stories.
Her stand up is incredible. Yeah, I love it. I
connect with it in a lot of ways and I
couldn't wait. I was so excited when she submitted for this.
(48:13):
I was like, automatic, Yes, you are so hilarious, so
I'm really excited. Yeah, I'm sorry I almost missed her
because of my beer being in the way. But that
is our lineup. I think that is our full lineup.
I'm pretty sure I talked about everybody.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
I'm proud of myself and I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Thank you. And you could buy those tickets at saccomedyspot dot.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Com slash Themfest slash Femfest no hyphen no, just a
full no hyphen It's sackcomedyspot dot com slash Femfest, or
you can find it on sackcomedyspot dot com slash Calendar
and fine find Femfest on the call the.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Twenty ninth Friday and Saturday this week. Yep, you can
do it. And if people want to find out more
about Lazy Carol what she's.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Doing, oh yeah you can. You can follow me at
LACEYMC is my professional page, but it's not has nothing
to do with improv, and I believe my personal one
is at Lacy M. Carroll, but there might be a
dot in there. I'm gonna look real quick.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
You don't have to do it, Okay, no one ever knows.
That's my favorite part. No one ever.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Knows, I know, my professional one.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, right, because you have to give it out to people.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yes, so you can follow me. Hey, listen, I do
head shots. If people need head shots, I'm your gal. Ye.
So yeah, you can find me in that way and
then and follow the yellow brick road to my personal
page somehow.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, it's probably getting recommended to you. The algorithm will
find it. Yeah, Like, do you know the same same person.
We're gonna tell you. It's really obnoxious that I have
a private account that more people are finding. And I'm like, decline, decline, decline.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yeah, if I don't, I it is true. I don't
really add a ton of people, but I will look
to see who is fre with this, and I'm like, oh,
it's a comedy spot person or oh it's a comedy
affiliated person, and I'm going to add.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
And then you're like, oh no, they're a nightmare And
no one told me.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
You know that's happened while but I mute and block. Okay,
de friend, I have no you know, I have given
up on focks to give. I think when I hit forty,
I said, I don't I don't have the fucks to
give if I'm not if I'm if we're not vibing,
we don't need to be in each other's lives on
the social media. Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't want to
(50:30):
see your sad person memes all the time.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, you know, And I think that's the perfect way
out of whatever the hell we're doing. I don't need
to see your sad person means all the time. Title
the episode, We're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Fun, please please, I ship post memes all the time.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
So yeah, I mean you got It's how do else
you're gonna make it through today in this world?
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Hell? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (50:58):
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I haven't moved to Blue Sky or anything. It's just
(51:19):
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(51:40):
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(52:03):
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(52:24):
This is how good both of these programs are, that
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Speaker 2 (52:28):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm allowed to talk right now.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, we were supposed
to be gone forever ago. Hey, whoever's out there still listening. Thanks,
thank you, Lacy, Thanks Ben, great work. Thanks we get
here all right. Bye bye
Something.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
They call it functional alcoholism.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
But if you know anything about Ben, he's got vision
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And the tinkle love derision.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Here about to hear what beer can be. It's time
for Barley and Me. Welcome to Barley. He presents BEVs
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(00:33):
BEVs with Ben, or bevy of BEVs or bevy of
Bevities or whatever I'm calling this. I'm your host, Ben Rice.
We're here today at Pangaea Beer Cafe in Sacramento, California, speaking.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
With Lacy Carrol, and we're talking about Benfest. I'm very
excited about it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Great now, so you've already got it out there. What
is Feenfest?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So Bemefest is an all fe fem identifying comedy festival
that is hosted by this Sacramento comedy spot. And we
are putting together people from all across California. We have
performers that are stand ups, sketch and improvisers coming up
from La the Bay Area. We do have someone from Oregon,
(01:16):
so we have one out of state. I'm very excited
for that state. Oh yes, oh yes. And of course
we have some local talent as well, and it is
going to be March twenty eighth and twenty ninth. There
are four blocks of comedy that we are doing and
it will be a mix of stand up, sketch and improv.
And we also have a full weekend pass and if
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you are an improviser and you're interested, we also have
some workshops available for improvisers and for aspiring improvisers. So
we have one that is available for a more advanced
improviser and that is by Michelle Gilliam and she is
coming up from La She's amazing. I learned from her
a few years ago and adore her. And we also
(02:02):
have who I consider one of the goats of improv
in Sacramento, Justine Lopez, and she is teaching a drop
in class. So that's for everyone nice and I love that.
And that will be Saturday morning on the twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Which I was going to say twenty eight, twenty ninth,
that's Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Is it an all day thing? Is there start time
for it?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So we it is not an all day thing. It's evening.
So the start time is seven thirty and shows will
the blocks of shows are from seven thirty till about
eight thirty or nine, and then nine thirty to about
ten thirty or eleven, you know, with a variety things
are you know, a little fluid, and I produce another
(02:45):
variety show and I know that you know, there's fifteen
minutes of whiggle room.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's this range. Yes, we don't want to
be too tight on it. We don't want to let
it go too loose. I know all about it, all right.
So the content for this new podcast is that it's
not just a beerd podcast because people are drinking less.
You know, people like I don't really want to drink
beer anymore, and I'm like, ah, well, I really want
to talk to this person, so let's just find their
favorite beverages and drink them. Now. You've made a selection today,
(03:10):
lazy of what we're drinking. Yes, and just because I
know we we.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We changed it last minute.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, we changed locations and beverages, so.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I hope I'm I'm saying this right. It's the Jaybird,
which I can say, You've got that right from sante
A Diaria, Okay, sante A Darius. And the style is
well it's an age say song with mango, yes, which
I'm excited about. Yeah, I'm a Mango Gurley.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And you're also a say Song Gurley.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I am a Seysan Gurley. Especially when it's this hot out.
If this is the first hot day.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
This year, it's a second hot day, I think.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, okay, correct me.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I think, well, I mean, what's your definition of hot?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's true. It's this first hot day that I've been outside.
I think the first hot day that happened, I was
Gremlin and I was like, I'm not going outside. So
it's the first hot day I'm experiencing of this year,
and I'm a little mad about it.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah. I was like I went outside at like now,
and I'm like, what is this? Because I never look
at the I never look at the weather. I have
no idea is It's like, yeah, I don't know how
it's hot, you go outside. That's what I learned. I'm like, oh, well,
I didn't expect that. I didn't Yesterday was not hot.
Why is today hot?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yesterday was incredibly pleasant. I walked around, I did some
flyering for Femfest, and I was like, this is the
perfect day. It's like seventy degrees. That's my perfect day.
Today is eighty five and when you go from like
sixties and seventies to eighty five, that's a shock. Yeah,
And I know in July I'm going to be wishing
(04:45):
for these days, for the eighty five degree days.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But your body is set for seventies. Yes, and now
it's it's doing this.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I come from a long line of farmers that
are from not hot climates, okay, and I also am
from a very not hot climate. So moving here, so
you've moved from the tundra. Oh yes, well I've moved
from a coastal city.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I grew up in a coastal city. But my my family,
you know, they their roots are in England and Ireland,
and you know they they're pasty people.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So you're you're a coastal elite, is apparently. No.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I just like fog, I really do. I love a
good fog and we just don't get it enough here.
Ye yeah, I know, and so uh yeah, anytime it
starts to heat up, I I question why I moved here,
but then I remember how much I love it, and
I love that. I love the community here in Sacramento
(05:48):
so much, and you don't have that in other places,
so it keeps me here but the heat makes me grumbly.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, quick question, Yeah, what are you looking for in
a Sayson? When you get a Sayson? What are the
thing that you want out of?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh my gosh. Okay, So I haven't tried it yet
and I'm very I want to try. I wanted to
wait to try it on air. I want something bright
and zippy. I think when I think of a seysan
and it's warm out, that's like those two things go together.
So I want something refreshing and crispy.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Almost like a like a citrusy lemonie.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, kick, Yes, I want a nice crisp So I am.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
How are you about barnyard like hay straw kind of
it depends.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I like a grassy hay kind of vibe occasionally, but
it has to be done well. I have had Oh
I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna crap all
over a certain thing, but I've had one that I
just didn't like. It tasted like I was chewing cud.
You know, I'm just like, well, but that being said,
I like when it has some grassy notes to it.
(06:53):
So yeah, this is with mango, so we'll we'll see.
I want yeah, oh that is nice and cheers. This
is nice and fruity.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I like that. Okay, Yeah, how are you feeling about it?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's a little not temperature wise, the taste is warmer
than I expected.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, does yeah, a little more alcohol kickup?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. I would probably. I don't
know if I could drink like. It isn't giving as
much warm day vibes as I was expecting, okay, because
it does have a little warmth to it, But I
do like it. I think it has like a refreshing note.
I don't taste the mango.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh really, not really. Oh, I was like the mango's
kind of overpowering a little bit of stuff in here.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I smell the mango, let me, let me taste again.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But I also do pick up stone fruit a lot
stronger in flavors than my tongue. Just it's like, oh,
that's in there. I told I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Taste so okay, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
A tasting thing for me.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I taste lemony.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, I like I like it. No, it's you're right,
lemon probably is now it's like it sticks around longer.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm tasting the lemon as it like sits
on my tongue. But I do like it. It's it's zippy,
it has a little crispiness to it. I wouldn't say
it's my favorite, saythng I've ever had, but it's it's
doing the job. Yeah, I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah. And the fun part is that we're supposed to
have like your favorite drink, and then they're like, we're
out of it, and we're like, all right, well we'll
get the thing that we'll experiment with. Ye's the second drink.
We're going to get some Maybe we'll find an old
standby that's on the board. Yeah, later and we'll just
do It's like, it's not my favorite, but I've had it. Yeah,
I'm bye with it. Yeah, we'll make this podcast. I
don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Really, we're just here to talk about you and themfest,
which also it's not the first femfest.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
No, this is the second femfest, but it's the first
one in six years.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah. I was like, so the first one.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Happened in twenty nineteen, and then I don't know if
you remember, a little thing happened in twenty twenty that
like changed things a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, I bought a house.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh cool, Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I remember that. Yeah, the big thing that everybody knows it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone knows that Ben Rice bought a
house that year. Yeah, so that got canceled. And then,
you know, coming back from the pandemic, it was like,
let's see what's working, what's happening finding you know, the
comedy spot finding their footing again, and pretty much all
businesses that are brick and mortar, especially theaters, finding their
(09:22):
footing again. And now is the time for Femfest to
come back and show off some women's voices, some fem
voices rebranded with some cool pinks and yellows. We've got
We've got fun rebranding and yeah, I'm really excited about it.
We we have a lot of local talent that I
(09:44):
absolutely adored. If we could, if we could feature more
local talent, I would love that. But you know, this
was this was a year of regrowth and seeing what
we can do, and hopefully next year we can bring
it back even bigger and better. So yeah, exactly three,
that's the plan. Yeah, that's the plan. The whole weekend
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh longer, longer sets. But
(10:05):
we just wanted to. We want to see Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, you're out here today. You're like, it's a little
bit hotter than I thought. Let's yep, well let's put
the toe in the ready for this?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Absolutely yeah, yep, exactly. Yeah. So we have you know
a couple of local improv. We have Lady Business, which
you know, if you're in the comedy scene in Sacramento,
you know that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's over a decade run in fifteen.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
They're hitting fifteen years this month, I think or next
month something like that. So they are you know, stallwarts
of the you know, Sacramento comedy scene. Of course they're
going to be playing. And then we have a newer
team like Stem Fatales yep, and I love that. I'm
very excited. They've been doing stuff for about a year
or so. And then we have my team which is GGT.
(10:54):
It's Girls, Gays and the Ace and uh, it's a
variety show, but we are doing an improv only because
every single set is you know, twenty five minutes versus
an hour long. So yeah, we're doing some improv as gut,
but we're doing all femprov instead of uh, you know, girls,
Gays and Nights. So We're we're having the Femme presenting
people on the team representing.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So I'm excited, Hey, fellas, get out of here, Yeah
get out. Yeah, not welcome here.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah for one weekend. Happy to have them back in June,
which is our next dogt but yeah, I'm really excited
for that. And then we have we have some amazing
non local talent as well. So we've got Natasha Muse
who Yeah, she's i mean talk about funny in the
(11:43):
bones truly. And then we have like improv duo coming
up from La Dock of the Bay. These two ladies
are hilarious. I mean, they they're a duo. They they
can sustain like a full hour show, no problem. But
they're going to be regale us with thirty minutes of
their insanely good improv. And we also have a really
(12:04):
cool thing called the Creative Cauldron and all of the
performers and veterans performers at Femfest, Comedy Spot Veterans are
going to be putting on a showcase. So that's really cool,
and it's going to be hosted by Hope Hope Richards,
So I'm really upcited.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, who kind of bridges that gap because she was
in LA for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know she's kind of
old school and new school because she started off at
Comedy Sports and Comedy Spot here a long time ago,
went to LA and now she's back at the Comedy
Spot and so she's doing Helix. So she bridges all
the gaps, which is really cool. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Who else is organized besides.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yourself and her myself, hope, Sarah agamahammedi okay, And we
have Jenni Sports. Oh well, you're gonna have to have
her on. She's a blast. You probably know Alex Shoemaker.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, you're going to meet them at the game sometimes
I'm seen. I get that, I get that, I get that.
And yeah, we have a lot of people helping, volunteering
behind the scenes as well. Of course, you know obviously
Tina and Brian, but we have Casey Shenkara, We've got
Amy Nelson. We've got a lot of people helping out,
(13:17):
you know, whether it's flying we have Michelle Petro, you know,
just flying, creating buttons, reaching out for sponsors, reaching out
to you know, so it is, I know, it's that's
the thing. You know, when you're putting on an event,
it's like a it's months long process for like, you know,
a few minutes of glory.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, it's the one thing I hate.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I enjoy it because I'm a weirdo.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I hate flying. I hate oh yeah. I was like,
I'm saying, I don't want to I can't sell this
to you. I'm like, I'm so flying to bother you say, no, okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I try to make it a fun like I I
find if I bodied ub with someone, meaning like, if
I go with another person, I'm just so much better
at it. If I do it alone. I do struggle.
I struggle to get motivated to walk into a you know,
when we were supposed to meet this morning, and I
was like, you know what, I'm just gonna go flying.
I have a little time. So I just went around.
(14:17):
I walked around and I'm just like, uh, I don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Do but I don't want to bother somebody. Yes, that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But here's the thing what I noticed about themfest especially,
I walked into salons and I'm like, hi, ladies, we
have an all female comedy festival. And they're like, what,
Oh my gosh, so I think it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, you got to find the spots that like, yeah,
support it, like yeah yeah, like yeah, you want to
do things that we're not competing with their business. Also,
you're not competing with the salon's business, and their clientele
are absolutely going to be interested in that product. Yes, yes,
say yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And I forgot to mention Justine Lopez has really helped
out with THEMFEST too. I didn't. I'm like trying to
make sure I don't drop any names that I've forgotten
that have helped out incredibly with them FEST. But yeah,
we we've we've done flyering and buttoning and T shirt
making and all that all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
So yeah, but sorry, I got to think of that anyway.
They're cheap, they're easy, right, there's a button you press.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yes, there's a little button machine you can get. Yeah,
it's fun. I like to play that music that used
to play in Mooney Tunes anytime there's a factory scene.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Dude, dude, the kids.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and you just you just
pressure to keep going and if it's fun, it can
be fun.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, but I got to cut out those circles and.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, there's a there's a circle presser.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh, it's like it'll cut it for you and then
you just get it. Okay, Yeah, there's a whole okay
that Yeah, I'll still mess it up.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Well, it's after a while. Listen. Did I mess up
a few buttons or twelve?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yes, but out of two hundred, I messed up twelve.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
That's pretty low cost.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So it's not like you're thrown away dozens of dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No, maybe maybe maybe fives of dollars. Yeah, maybe maybe
two five's worth of dollars.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, so still under a dozen, under a dozen, under
a dozen, ten is under a dozen? Yeah yeah. And
with the return yeah long and also you know you
can do it. The nice part is you've got promo
all year long for your next ones.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, because we didn't put a year on it. I
was like, I don't want a year on it because
then it can be promo and yeah crossover yeah so yeah,
yeah yeah and excited. Yeah. So I don't know if
you because we're we're meeting for the first time. Yes, correct,
But I have been in the improv world since I
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was twelve and I'm forty, but not in Sacramento. I
started in San Francisco at twelve. Well, I was doing
theater and stuff, but I started at twelve because I
saw whose line as most people did you know, Comedy
Central or whatever, And I said, I don't know what
that is, but I want to do it. And my
dad had to call so many places in the yellow
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Pages because I'm old and.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't even know to look up I think he
looked up theater.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't know. I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You have an improv class? Do you have an improv class?
Do you have an improv Yeah? Like what is that?
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well a lot of them did, but they were for
adults only. And he said, I want my twelve year
old daughter to do it. She really wants to do it,
and she needs an outlet because she's driving me nuts,
probably what he said. And no one wanted to take
a kid. So he called the nicest lady back. Her
name was Marcia, Marcia Kimmel, and uh she he said, listen,
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you are the nicest one, and you were the only
one that gave me recommendations to call other theaters and
call you know, kids camps and everything. And there were
theater camps, but I had done that and I didn't
want to do that. I want to be funny, and
she said, okay, I'll I'll do it, but you I
don't want a babysit, so you have to do it
with her. So my dad and I started doing it
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when I was well, and he was good at it.
He you know, it's so funny because I think back
and he was probably about my age now when I
started doing improv and on the car rides home and go, oh,
lace was that good? Did I do a good job?
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's fine. But he had
adult brain where it was like thinking about all the
things he messed up. Yeah, And at twelve I didn't
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give a crap. I was like, I was funny, this
is great. I'm hilarious, you know because everyone laughs at
the twelve year old too. So I realized in retrospect,
you know, as an adult doing improv, when you have
that drive home, when you have a show or a
something you did just didn't you didn't like it, And
I'm like, god, man, was that good? And I'm like,
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oh my god, I sorry dad for not recognizing.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, yes, yeah the.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Artist, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So yeah, but I stopped
doing improv for a good long while in between. Yeah,
so I found my home.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I stopped there.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now. I so I from like twelve to twenty two,
and then I stopped. I didn't have the money or
the time. You know, I had to work, and I
ended up you know, raising kids and stuff like that.
So I had to take care of that. And then
when I was about thirty five, I came back to improv.
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So I took a like a twelve year hiatus, which
is a good junk.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, but you got all this life experience. You've seen
some characters, Oh yeah, some voices.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh yeah, I'm much better at improv now I'm more
in my head about it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Ohays, Yeah, that's the worst part.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, because I'm an adult and I have adult problems,
but adult sads, Yeah, bills and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, but it's never ending pursuit of perfection that can't
be reached.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, but that's always the fun of it too.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, you get close, but then well I said this
one thing's true and the whole thing, and then you
just got to let that not eat. Like ribber, I
did really good on these other things, and that's what's important.
Nothing it's going to happen don't worry about it. It's
gonna you could. I can say that right now. It's
not how I react after I'm on stage. Yeah, I'm
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gonna have that thing. You'd be up for a day.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah. I usually I give myself until I go to
bed that night. And I said, he that is my
If I'm mad at something I did or disappointed in myself,
I have till the end of the night and then
I gotta get over this.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
By next morning, I gotta shut up. I can't say
a damn thing about it, and I gotta move on.
And I usually do.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah. And it comes with practice.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, like when you're just starting, oh man, you yourself
oh man, or you have no self referential points and
you're like, I'm the best thing that's.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Every Well yeah, there's two two. That's a double edged
short there. Yeah. If you I will say this, if
anyone's listening to this, who is new at improv, If
you haven't gotten off stage and felt shit about something
you've done, I don't know, good for you, I guess,
but that it's it's normal. It's normal you're gonna get
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off stage and go oof. But I what I love
about being on a team and being close with people
that I do improv with. Sometimes if we have a
bad show, you get off stage and you can laugh
about it and go, oh my god, do you remember
when you did that? Oh yeah, that was garbage and
we can laugh. So there's camaraderie and and improv versus.
You know when I when I tried stand up, and.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's a different game, right it is. Yeah. I went
from stand up, I tried to do improm We did
some classes and Brian was teaching at the time, and man,
I was like, you know what the important thing is
is that everybody else in this class is learning what
not to do.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I love that, but you know, stand up is such
a skill that you have to you know, you have
to stand in your truth, man, and that is sometimes
quite tough because.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You gotta get real comfortable silence.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I you know. I I
did because I used to do sketchy a lot, and
sketch has similar tendencies. If you write a sketch that's
not hitting, you still have to hit those lines. You
can't improvise your way out of.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It, can't cut it. Yeah, you're like we wrote to
the end. Yes, you have to go to the end. Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And I used to do a sketch thing where it
was just one person on stage. It was a character
like circus where you would have them come through and
it was a bunch of different characters. And I wrote
this one character and it just did not hit with
the audience at all. And I had seven minutes on
stage of that, and I thought, my god, that was
only seven minutes. Some comics have to sit up there
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for a freaking twenty minute hour. Yeah, oh I would.
I don't know, I'd.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Run way out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But the nice part, like you can always it's it's nice,
but it's also not fun. It's like figuring out where
to dance around. Yeah, like self resh and like with
a sketch, it's harder because you can't really break character
right comedy like stand up you can, Yes, but you
know what, that's not working. I'm gonna do a different tag.
You know, I'm going to I'm going to make fun
of how bad that failed, and I'm going to move
to this other Yeah. R skeed you like, I'm this
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character until I'm no longer this character. Yeah, And I'm
the characters the ship says, I'm not yep. So that's tough.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes, I that's I like to improvise my way out
of a situation. I I told a story not long ago,
and I could tell the audience wasn't on my side
and it was a personal story, but I made myself
the villain and they were not digging that. And I
was like, oh, I got to dig myself out of
this hole. And I did because I have enough years
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under my you know, under my belt to now know that,
oh I need to I need to make this audience
like me in some way. But if that was a sketch,
I'd be, you know, up a creek.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'd like, well, okay, making you the villain it usually
works so well, you know, because like you're not making
fun of somebody else, like we're all laughing at this person. Yeah,
this is the person that's making a mistake. Yes, I
think that's an important part of comedy. It's like I'm
not if I'm going to tell a story that maybe
has like, hey, somebody's got to be the bad guy,
is you?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely? And uh, you know, I I told
a story where you know, I did not help a
person that was falling and instead I but listen, I
was on the news, and I was a teenager, and
I was nervous, and I I just let them fall.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Uh, what could you have done? Realistically?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Fallen with them because we were going upstairs and they
were ahead of me on the stairs, and I watched
her fall and instead I just used because there was
railing on either side, and I just lifted myself and
she fell and slid under me. And it was my
best friend. Yeah, I'm the villain, I get it. See.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, And that's very funny. I don't know why people
were laughing at that. That's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, but listen if she's listening, Sorry, Nicole, she knows,
she knows. She let me many times.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
She's like, look, I've only done the to one friend. Hopefully,
hopefully you've only done to one friend.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Listen, it's not your best friend. You laugh, like at
the time, she was my bestest, closest friend. You laugh
when your best friend falls. Yeah, that's just how it is.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I have a friend that fell and it took like
twelve seconds and none of us trying to stop it.
It was the funniest things. Just so slow on this fall.
It was it was like it was in slow motion. Yes,
and I'm like, is he doing this for He's caught himself.
Surely he's got it's going so slow that he's doing
this for exaggeration, and.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
He just face, Oh man, you know, we just thought.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You were joking, Like we saw you trip. We knew
the trip was real, and we thought you would caught yourself,
and You're like, I'm going to play it up and
I'm going to do it slow slide.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But they just like, oh man, you know, And that's
a part of it. I think if it was I
don't know at the time. You know, I was. I
was in the background of a TV news segment, okay,
and I was nervous. I knew I was nervous.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Just why you go upstairs?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It was Abraham Lincoln's birthday and we were at the
place that he died. We were just happened to be visiting.
So there was a lady, you know, news you know,
on the street, you know whatever, was saying, we are
here at Abraham Lincoln's place of death, and it is
his birthday, blah blah.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Blah, and that's where we celebrate birthdays where someone died. Yeah,
Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah they should be in Illinois.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, that's where it go to the link. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
why where he died.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, it was it was across from the theater. Yeah,
and uh yeah, it was like some random house, but
we were visiting. We happened to be walking up the
stairs and I was like, oh my gosh, the TV news.
That's a year and we're sixteen years old, so we're
very excited.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah so you miss a step.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
She missed it.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You walk just perfectly.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, so all you see I don't know, I don't
know what all they saw, but it was you can't
there wasn't there was railing, but it was solid, so
they couldn't see her fall. But they did see a
head go missing and me probably go a little higher
and then just keep walking. Yeah, so you know, yeah,
that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Walking in with your head held high, that's it's important.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yes, and I did. I wanted to make sure Lincoln's
death place knew that I was walking in there with
my head held high. And I am not a clumsy person.
In fact, I am quite limber, and.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I could even dodge the clumsy people in a moment's notice. Yes,
did you hear her squealing? Because I yell step on
her hands. No, because I didn't do it because I'm
very good at this exactly exactly, and I have learned
and this is not going to be a great story.
We'll just cut. I've learned that the news is not
good at what to do with background people anyway, because
I was on the news once for as I was
(27:44):
like ten, and like, oh, just act like you're like
friends and you're telling jokes and laughing, and we were
there after a child had died. What so that's what's
in the background is kids laughing and joking it up.
We're talking about a child who had died on our block.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What a weird direct, Yeah, what a weird prompt for
them to give you.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, Like that's the same people like we should go
to where Lincoln died for his birthday? The same people.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I know that is a strange Yeah, yeah, that that
is a strange take in hindsight, you know, my sixteen
year old brain was just excited to be potentially on.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
The ground of Yeah, a ten year old brain, I'm
like absolutely going to be on TV. Yeah dope, yeah, yes,
there's is about say.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You can explained off Scotch in the background.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's insane in like a residential neighbor, not
on a school or anything. You know, Just what are
we doing? I do have a very important question. I
think the whole listening audience is wondering it this sketch
character that you had to pull for seventy minutes that
people hated? What was it?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Oh my gosh, I should I knew I should have character. Okay,
so it was a lounge singer.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, people hate them. Yep.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well I redid this character for the comedy spot and
it went well. Okay, so I will say it might
have been the audience. No, it was me. It was
one hundred percent. But it was a lounge singer and
she I really am obsessed with like old lady lounge singers.
And she would make up cocktail names of all of
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the patrons, so I would ask the patron's name, and
we already had like patrons planted. It was not improv
I wish it was. It would have been so much better.
It was improv but we had like different things like
I'm your name is Steven, and we slept together in
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nineteen twenty seven, and I remember you had a little pickle,
so I put a little pickle in this cocktail. You know,
it's just silly stuff, but that's what we did. And
people just weren't into it. And the patron said nothing.
It was me and I was standing out there with
a piano player, but he also said nothing. And we
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had rehearsed the songs. The songs were funny, I thought,
but no, they weren't into it. They weren't into it.
And and in San Francisco there's like there's a vibe there.
You know, the audiences aren't as generous as Sacramento. They
when they laugh, they go.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh yeah, I San Francisco crowds are weird.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think there's a politeness there. I'm from there.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
There's a there's a I don't want to be a
part of this where it's hurting someone, Yes, but also
if you like like that might be hateful towards someone
or mean to someone. I don't want to be the
person who laughs in that kind of thing. But if
you're in San Francisco and you do an anti Asian
joke like this is the funniest thing I've ever heard
in my life, and I'm like, hold on a second,
(30:52):
you can't do both.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, they they there's a there's a weird diconomy. I
you know, I moved from there a long time ago,
but I from there. I claim myself as a as
a Bay Area and I grew up in San Francisco proper.
And yeah, there's there's a lack of comfort within yourself
at those audiences. I have attended shows there and you're like,
(31:15):
huh oh wait, okay. I'm a generous laugher, yeah, because
I know what it's like to be on the other side.
So I will laugh my ass off for someone. But
sometimes even if it's mid level funny, I will hut
guffaw ycause.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You got to get something.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get the work. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
And it did Gardner a reaction. Yes, a lot of
people stifle it. They were like, I don't want to
be the only one laughing. I don't want to be
the person who like I remember us doing a comedy
competition when I was early early comedy, and it was
like a lot of darker, dirtier material and like I crushed.
I crushed, right, But then like time to vote, and
nobody voted for me, damn. And it's because they all
(31:57):
were like, I feel guilty about laughing about what you said. Like,
in hindsight, I should have laughed at that, and therefore
you don't wait, I'm like, but I did make you
laugh though, I got past your defenses, yeah, and made
you laugh. So it's tough.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's it's tough because I think I think people if
they're in a level of comfort, you know, it's this
is why I always tell people, if you're on a
first date, it's hard to go to a stand up
show because it's tough.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But you also, but if you're on a fourth date,
that's when you go because you need to know what
their their sense of humor is.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, what their pushes are.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, but first date is a big no go for me.
I would never.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I would never. Yeah, and especially an open mic. I've
seen that. I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's a wild take, That is a wild choices.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, one of you makes bad choices. Yeah, and the
other one.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's just going along. Yeah, run run, Like.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Maybe I'm wrong about comedy on the first date. Oh no,
I was correct, I was correct.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Okay, yeah, no, no, I think it depends. You know,
you do need to know what the other person thinks.
It's funny, but you don't need to know right away.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, and they're gonna try to like hide things, so
then you're both just uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's not good.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I love comedy, don't do it as a first date.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, yeah, I I also went to a I made
the mistake. Well, it wasn't me. I was I was
a part of a touring group and our first day
was going to a comedy show. And I didn't know
any of these people. None of these people knew me,
so we didn't know what.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
To last at comedy work eventage, Like, why would anyone
do this?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I had to do so back in the day, I well,
well I thought I had to. My troop would do
improv for work places and like put on a show. No,
oh that would be horrendous. No, no, we were hired
to be you know, like, let's say we are hired
(33:59):
by Google, right to go do an improv show. Those
are the freaking worst. Nobody wants to laugh at certain things.
Everyone's looking around, Oh what does the boss think is funny?
And we'll laugh at that. So you need to figure
out who the boss is and who everyone's looking to
and make that person laugh.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh geez, yeah, it's like, look, it pays well, but
it's a nightmare for everybody. Yeah, I appreciate the money. Yeah,
don't do this to your employees. Yeah, just stop stop it. Yeah,
like thank you. Don't do this to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh yeah sure, oh yeah, it's terrible. It's terrible. But
I also know if you can, if you can find
a boss with a good sense of humor. We did
have a really good show once at this place, but
that was the one out of like ten we did
and no thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, but the.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Boss had a great sense of humour, loved improv, so
he was laughing and so everyone else laughed.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah. My last two bosses know how to do stand up.
And every time we do like a meeting, like you're
gonna do something, I'm like, no, I'm never gonna do
that in this space. Are you kidding me? It's never
gonna happen. Stop asking.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I teach at conferences and not nothing to do with
improv or anything. I teach at photography conferences across the nation,
and when I tell them I do improv, they go,
jo us a joke. Well I'm not a stand up first,
that's number one. Two, what do you want me to do,
find a prop and tell you what it isn't like
get out of here. Yeah, you know, I will do
(35:25):
my one. Uh. I guess bar trick or parlor trick
or whatever party trick, whatever you want to call it is.
I'm good at puns. So I will say I will
play the sex with me game. Do you know that game?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Is like?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Sex with me is like a blank I blank blank blank?
You know. So I do that sometimes and they are
very impressed, but it has to be.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
The right place because you can't do sex with me
is like at you.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Know, no, no, So I will do hey waiter, that's
another one. But hey waiter, there's a blank in my soup.
And you know, but I hate it. I feel like
I'm suddenly the clown that has been hired by these people,
and I'm like, oh, this is terrible. So I've stopped
telling people I do impress.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I Uh. What I will do is I will
just do this joke that somebody else told me. I'm
like this, I'll tell it. It's not my joke, but
I'll tell you. You have to hear a joke. Here's a joke.
Knock knock.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Do you want me to say?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, who's there, Smell.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Mop, Smell Mop?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Who it works?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
It does? I yeah, I I yep, you have to
you have to like, ah, you do have to find
that one. That one bit and I used to have
a stand up bit, and then like ten years later,
I saw a comic do it much better than me.
It was I can't remember his name, he's really freaking funny,
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but I saw him do it at a clusterfest. I
was like, son of a bitch. That was my one
joke that like hit all the time when I did
do stand up and it was You're not an adult
until you buy close at Costco kind of vibe. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, okay,
So he did that joke so much better than I've
ever done it in my entire life. But I did
have that choke.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Okay, it's a great concept.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yes, I had that joke back in like two thousand
and four or something, because you know it, the concept
is there, and I my whole thing because I was
younger at the time. I said, I can't wait till
I'm a full adult when I walk into Costco and
say ooh that's cute. That was my That was my joke.
His has done much better also.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Watched that special.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It's incredible, incredible, incredible. I haven't watched the special, but
I watched him live and I was like, oh man,
this motherfucker's finding as fun. Yeah, the Clusterfest was a
clusterfuck but lots, yes, but lots of funny people. There
lots of funny people.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I think we've run our time, we did it. Do
we have time for a second drink? I don't know
if we do, that's up to you. That's up to you.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I talked way too fucking much.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Well, we were talking about, well, we got to get
through this whole lineup. We should probably, we should probably
get through. We should probably get some lias to that.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Okay, Yeah, I'm I'm a chatty. I'm okay, that's fine,
I'll get that that. Yeah, I've never had it, but
unless you want to get something that's familial, get the
smallest one.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Sunday we're back with a second drink. This is the
one I chose.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
I'm sorry, Oh no, I'm happy. I'm excited for this.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
So it's a it's a ghost town rise and ruin
hoppy brown Ale, which I thought was a weird descriptor.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Also, U it is six point six six percent.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Okay, what was the last one? I didn't I didn't
even say.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I think it was we did, did the Jbird?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yes? But what was it? Seven? Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
It was like seven point four ok yeah, but I
only because it's six point sixty six, you know, Okay,
six six six Mark of the Beast, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Happy Brown, Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Ghostand which is known for its hoppy beers.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
It's got a little creamy talk to it. Okay. Yeah,
it smells a little chocolatey and fruity all at once.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
That's peculiar. I'm gonna call it peculiar.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, I like it. I actually like this and normal.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
It's very chocolate.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, I you know, I I before we got on air,
I was talking about Oscar Blues and they have a
really chocolatey I pa that I like. I can't remember
the name of. But I feel like this one will
get better as it warms.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, this is nice.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah. So now we've got to talk in order for
it to warm up.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
So we fmfest Yes, Friday and Saturday, Mark Sacmut Comedy Spot.
That's the one on Jay Street, twentieth and J.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yes, it is. If you've gone to Faces or low
brow or bad lands.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
It's over there right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't get confused. No,
that comedy spot, yes, dock.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Comy, Yes, oh you got that right, that's good.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Uh, company spot on Instagram, I know, hmm yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Crawls home addresses, I do know.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I think it's ten to fifty. No, that's the that's
the Uh. The comedy spot address is ten to fifty twentieth.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
And parking is terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yes, sometimes you know what good, sometimes it's good. It's
been good lately, knock on wood. But you know, plan
accordingly for Femfest because it will be you know, it
looks as though we have sold quite a few tickets.
So speaking of ticket prices, yes, it is twenty dollars
a block, or you can get a weekend pass which
is a steal for sixty dollars. And that is all
(40:54):
four shows, which means it is a lot of people.
There are like forty acts for sixty dollars. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, that's four dollars an act.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
And then some change, yes, some change in there.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Some of those acts are more than one person. Like
we said we got a ten person group, we got
five or six people group.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Oh, yeah, do you want me to talk more about
some people. So we have SaaS Sisters, which are all
the fem people of Sas Factory, which is a wonderful
group out of the Bay Area, and they do improv
and I'm really excited because they I've met some of
(41:31):
them at improv camp. I am that kind of nerd.
I go to improv camp and uh, they are some
of the funniest people that I've been able to play
with at improv camp. So I'm really excited to see
them take the stage at the Comedy Spot. This is
their first time coming up and performing at the Comedy Spot.
So we have some first timers, and we have some
(41:51):
people that have been around for a while or coming back,
like Temple Kirk, the Bard, and she is she was
in Eugene organ but she was here for a while
as well, so she's been at the Comedy Spot before
and she's coming back and I'm really excited to welcome
her back to the Comedy Spot stage. And she is
(42:12):
a stand up and she sings because she is the Bard,
and I'm really excited to see her back at the
Comedy Spot. And we also have, you know, like I said,
some stalwarts we have Melissa McGillicutty. Yeah, if you again,
like I said about Lady Business, if you are in
the Sacramento comedy community, you know the name Melissa yeah
(42:33):
g McK g. I like to say because it's mew
Lissa on Instagram. Yeah, because she talks about her catalot. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Also, one time she did a show at that room
above Harlow's and they have a couch on the back
of it and she like just loungeing it like a
cat for half a set and it was so good.
It was so good.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Her ease on stage and her chill presence is just
such a delight. She has been on GGT several times.
As you know, we usually have two to three stand
ups on our variety show and she always brings it.
And she's just one of those people that's just so solid.
She she always has a solid set. I love watching her.
(43:14):
And yeah, we have a lot of a lot of
good groups. We also have women of Squad Patrol Okay, Sketch,
so it's all the ladies. Sorry. Marco, he's wonderful and
guess what he's he he's hair like like Jesus. A
lot of people say he looks like Jesus. If you've
seen Marco walking around, you're like, hey, who's that. Oh
(43:36):
it's Marco, It's not Jesus. And the women of Squad
Squad Patrol have some amazing sketches that they've written, and uh,
they're going to be bringing it to the stage. So
I'm excited to see that as well. I know we
have a few more, but I wanted to talk about
just in general, kind of the vibes that we're bringing
to the CLERB. Does that make sense? We are selling
(44:00):
some shirts, We've got some some buttons. It's gonna be
fun times. We also are gonna have a little hang
time in between the shows. Okay, so you can hang
out with the comics, you can hang out with the improvisers.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
I was gonna ask because there's one thing that happens
after an improv show, and that's improv people being out
in public together. Yeah, and that's annoying a thing that happens.
Here's the thing I was like, is this opportunity out there,
because I think there's a it's for a specific type
of person. Yeah, it's in a specific mood. Yes, if
(44:34):
you're into it, it's very fun. If you're like, oh,
my god, are we really doing this. We're in public,
We're in public, everyone can see and hear us.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
It's golden retriever and black cat energy. Right, It's like
that dichotomy. And yes, most improvisers are considered the golden
retrievers of comedy. But I will say in my you know,
I now teach and coach, and in my opinion, I
think some of the best improvisers are introverts because they're
(45:03):
always mindful and being mindful and improv is very important.
So not everyone is a Golden retriever. However, we're gonna
be hanging out on the boardwalk. You can chat with us.
We're not gonna do improvs bits I would. I would
literally run screaming if that happened. We're just gonna be
hanging out.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
You might do some improv games, let's face as one
might slip in there.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
If it does, I am running.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
If someone does, no one does, like Gastan, it's not
gonna en.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Someone starts singing.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah, oh no, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Well, I don't think that's the vibe. I think the
vibes chill. The vibes chill, hang out. Ask us questions.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
It's the last time that happened. It was when we
were all very young. Oh yeah, and so now seasoned
vets right now, Yes, done that.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
There's a lot of wizened humans on the stage.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You know, we'll go do karaoke to get our attend kicks.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yes, yes, yeah, We've got people, you know you young
at heart some of us, and some of us are
actually young. We have Ashley Monique. I don't know her age,
but I'm gonna say she's young. She strikes me as
young as does Becky Lynn. We've got Becky Lynn. We've
got uh oh yeah, and we've got but I'm an
old person, and uh yeah, I think we in the Coven.
(46:20):
The Coven is also from San Francisco and they're an
improv troop. But we we have we have uh yeah,
we have people that have been around the block. So
we're not going to be doing you know, cheerleader pyramids
for you out on the board walk. That would be insane.
We're just hanging, we're drinking a beer, we're uh we're chatting, chatting, chatting.
Yeah yeah. And if you've been to the comedy spot before,
(46:43):
you know that they have a really good bar, really
good sneaky snacks, and now a popcorn machine. Oh yeah,
you can.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Get some popcorn, get extra butter.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I don't know. I don't work the bar, but you
know what, I bet you you could question for Patrick. Yeah, Patrick,
Trica got you there, and also Tina, she's gonna be
working the bar. But also we do have little little
shakers to go on top of the So there's like
cheddar and halopeno. So we got some fans. There's a
(47:14):
volapeno cheddar mix thing powder that you could put on
your popcorn and I tried it and it was delicious.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
That sounds great. All right, have we gotten through everybody?
We talked about Natasha earlier?
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Oh my gosh, I want to know why my beer
is blocking her? So Lord is freaking hilarious. I bit
my tongue so I can't say Lord correctly. But oh
my gosh. I did a show with her not that
long ago. It was like called stand up and sing
(47:52):
just to yeah, okay, we had to do like singing
off of people's stand up and uh it was her stories.
Her stand up is incredible. Yeah, I love it. I
connect with it in a lot of ways and I
couldn't wait. I was so excited when she submitted for this.
(48:13):
I was like, automatic, Yes, you are so hilarious, so
I'm really excited. Yeah, I'm sorry I almost missed her
because of my beer being in the way. But that
is our lineup. I think that is our full lineup.
I'm pretty sure I talked about everybody.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
I'm proud of myself and I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Thank you. And you could buy those tickets at saccomedyspot dot.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Com slash Themfest slash Femfest no hyphen no, just a
full no hyphen It's sackcomedyspot dot com slash Femfest, or
you can find it on sackcomedyspot dot com slash Calendar
and fine find Femfest on the call the.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Twenty ninth Friday and Saturday this week. Yep, you can
do it. And if people want to find out more
about Lazy Carol what she's.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Doing, oh yeah you can. You can follow me at
LACEYMC is my professional page, but it's not has nothing
to do with improv, and I believe my personal one
is at Lacy M. Carroll, but there might be a
dot in there. I'm gonna look real quick.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
You don't have to do it, Okay, no one ever knows.
That's my favorite part. No one ever.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
Knows, I know, my professional one.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, right, because you have to give it out to people.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yes, so you can follow me. Hey, listen, I do
head shots. If people need head shots, I'm your gal. Ye.
So yeah, you can find me in that way and
then and follow the yellow brick road to my personal
page somehow.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, it's probably getting recommended to you. The algorithm will
find it. Yeah, Like, do you know the same same person.
We're gonna tell you. It's really obnoxious that I have
a private account that more people are finding. And I'm like, decline, decline, decline.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yeah, if I don't, I it is true. I don't
really add a ton of people, but I will look
to see who is fre with this, and I'm like, oh,
it's a comedy spot person or oh it's a comedy
affiliated person, and I'm going to add.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
And then you're like, oh no, they're a nightmare And
no one told me.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
You know that's happened while but I mute and block. Okay,
de friend, I have no you know, I have given
up on focks to give. I think when I hit forty,
I said, I don't I don't have the fucks to
give if I'm not if I'm if we're not vibing,
we don't need to be in each other's lives on
the social media. Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't want to
(50:30):
see your sad person memes all the time.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, you know, And I think that's the perfect way
out of whatever the hell we're doing. I don't need
to see your sad person means all the time. Title
the episode, We're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Fun, please please, I ship post memes all the time.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
So yeah, I mean you got It's how do else
you're gonna make it through today in this world?
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Hell? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (50:58):
All right? Uh you can me host Ben Rice of
Barleying Me Pod and my production thing, Barley Me Productions
and whatever this is at Barley and Me Pod across
all social media. That's not true. So many things have changed.
It's really just Instagram and Facebook. It's not formerly Twitter.
I haven't moved to Blue Sky or anything. It's just
(51:19):
those two. I guess. It's not YouTube, I think also,
but this is an audio podcast, so and enjoy that content,
I guess. Barley mepod dot com. Don't forget to check
out all the lovely shows that I'm putting on all
over the place. If you haven't, and I know you didn't,
check out my new show, The Bomb Shelter at the
(51:40):
silver Lining on fourteenth and and you should definitely check
it out. We're getting national headliners coming through on a
Wednesday night inside of a tiny little jazz bar. Thirty
dollars tickets, second Wednesday of the month, nine pm, one Light,
three comics, frinks. It's pretty cool. It's like like the
(52:03):
old sixties lounge shows you used to hear about. They're
back in twenty thirty five Sacramento. Next show April ninth
with Khalia McNeil and Niles Abstin and as Monique. Look
at that tie In. We did it, We did. And
then in May Amy Miller, Bechulynn tie In and Joseph Allen.
(52:24):
This is how good both of these programs are, that
these people are on both.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
Yeah, I don't know if I'm allowed to talk right now.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, we were supposed
to be gone forever ago. Hey, whoever's out there still listening. Thanks,
thank you, Lacy, Thanks Ben, great work. Thanks we get
here all right. Bye bye
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