Knockout at the Fez, Part 2!

To those who were interested in last night's Knockout finals at the Fez:

At the opening, host Dylan K. announced that instead of random matchups, comics would be called upon to CHOOSE their rivals in reality-show style, which left us all atwitter. Should we pick the strongest opponent and try to knock 'em out? The weakest, that we hope we can pick off? Our heads swam with logistics and nausea. The first round results: (winners in BOLD)

Tristian Spillman vs. Virginia Jones

Cody Cooper vs. The Dan Cossette (reinstated to sub for Gabe Dinger)

Richard Bain vs. Kyle Harbert

Nathan Brannon vs. Russell Parker

My name came out of the hat for the next round. I picked Cody Cooper because he had beaten me to win the last Knockout at the Vegan Pirate Restaurant that became the Vegan Pirate Strip Bar, and is now the Unoccupied Building. And then, Cody Cooper ate my lunch.

Virginia Jones vs. Cody Cooper

Richard Bain vs. Russell Parker

Richard accepted the loss with grace and aplomb and left, wiping his ass with the microphone on his way out, leaving Cody Cooper to battle Russell Parker.

After two applause breaks, the judges could not come to a final decision between Cody and Russell, so they became co-finalists, receiving one golden glove and $75 apiece. I just made $75 at work in the time I've wasted on my blog today, so it's no skin off my nose, believe!

(sob!)

Knockout at the Fez, Part 1!

Will Woodruff
vs
Kyle Harbert

Cody Smith
vs
Richard Bain

Virginia Jones
vs
Andrew Dhulst

Holli Pappan
vs
Russell Parker

Nathan Brannon
vs
Casey Kendall

Chris Castles
vs
Tristian Spillman

Veronica Heath
vs
Cody Cooper

Gabe Dinger
vs
Dan Cossette

Above are the results (in bold) for the first heat of the Comedy Knockout at the Fez last night. It was a great night and I hope that some folks (especially people who like me and who are LOUD) will come out next Wednesday to watch us whittle 8 to 1! The sets are three minutes long and the competition is fierce. Fierce I tell you!

One feature of the show is that the comics don't know who they're against or even when they're going up until the emcee says their name, which has the refreshing effect of making me want to vomit until the moment I'm onstage.

Guest Headliners Auggie Smith and Lonnie Bruhn stopped in to recreate their head-to-head competition in Portland comedy in 1992, except drunker, but with the same results of Lonnie-dominance.

Ooh, looks like Gabe Dinger has a road gig next week and has to bow out- the plot thickens!

Many thanks to Brain Fluid at the Fez for hosting and Dylan K. for organizing this event, it's been fun so far and will continue to be so until I am eliminated, at which point it will suck and everyone involved is a jerkface.