What are you lookin at?

For a few of you who have known me before the soapbox years this will make you smile for sure.

In the early 90's to the middle of the decade my character on stage was this happy go lucky guy. I wore funny pants and the world was great cause I got to eat hotdogs everyday.

There was this little bar gig in Barrie that ran weekly and it was called Goodfellas. For whatever reason I always did very well in that gig. They loved my lame comedy and they loved my catchphrase. During my sets I would say "good for me" and the crowd would laugh at those three words but never at the hours i spent crafting jokes.

The last time I ever played at goodfellas, they had made tshirts with my catchphrase and they gave me one to push at the end of the show. The manager told me "we are selling tons of these..you can have one for free"

Did you read that...I got one for free. This was the first time I ever had to deal with thievery in our business and this was not even joke theft on stage but even bigger.

I tried to explain it to them that it would be like me getting tshirts made that said "you might be a redneck if"

The manager just looked at me and said "but these say good for me on them"

He then had a look in his eye like a puppy dog who just pooped on the floor for the first time. That is when I learned a valuable lesson...drop the cathphrase and concentrate on the jokes and you would not be in this predicament.

goodtimes had by all

I never played goodfellas again and the bar closed a few months later. About a year later I saw a homeless guy in toronto wearing the shirt....well at least someone got some benefit from it. Good for him.

wah wah

Darren

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