An Okay Place for Comedy

The Drink At Work Show, Ace of Clubs (9 Great Jones St), 8:00PM
Host: Carol Hartsell
Musical Guest; Tim Fite
Creationist Bond Villain Sketch (Carol, Sean Crespo, Francesco Marciuliano)
Brooke Van Poppelen
Tom McCaffery
Remi Frazier (The Million Dollar Destiny)
Dan Curry
Sean Crespo/Francesco Marciuliano
Dan Pirarro
Nick Stevens
Eric Andre
Sean Crespo

There had been a lot of e-chatter about The Drink At Work Show at Ace of Clubs tonight - MySpace bulletins, event invitations, e-mails from Nigerian princes telling me about a potential windfall for alternative comics - so I decided to head down there and check out the hub-bub.

The line-up looked promising with some old friends (John Mulaney, Brooke Van Poppelen) and some dudes I had never seen live (Tom McCaffrey, Eric Andre). Plus I wanted to say hello to Carol and Maryanne and further ingratiate myself to them for their booking me at Rififi on August 1. Hells yes!

I turned the corner on Great Jones Street, and who do I see chatting away on his cell phone but fellow black man Baron Vaughn. This show turned out to be a mini "comic clambake," to borrow a phrase Baron himself used to describe Eating It when he did a spot there in June. Jack Kukoda, Sven Wechsler, Benari Poulten, John F. O'Donnell, Dan Allen, Mike Burns, and Jay Bois were all hanging out at the air conditioned Ace of Clubs, a spacious basement performance space under the Louisiana-styled ACME Bar and Grill. I was going to sample a catfish po' boy at the cajun eatery, but Baron didn't think it would be appropriate. He didn't even think it was appropriate for me to say, "I think I'll try the catfish po' boy." So much for the strides we've made as a people.