An Evening With Louie

Last night I attended Louie LOL at the Palace Station. I had seen Louie Anderson's old show at the Excal, but hadn't had a chance to check him out at his new digs.

As you know I like Louie am from Minnesota, and while I'm about 30 years short of his target demographic (we're not talking Laughlin old, but close), I have to admit the show was pretty good.

I will preface my review with the fact that I only paid $6 for the tickets. I got hooked up with "free" tickets from Show Tickets 4 Locals. A great company if you live in vegas (not always the best shows but sometimes a good one gets sent out). The tickets are normally $49.99, and Palace Station is running a Locals special of $15 off, I don't think the show was worth $50, if I had paid the $34.99 I would have said the show was decent, but since I only had to shell out $6, I will say the show was pretty good.

The opening comedian was OK, he had a few good lines, but a lot of his material was pretty bland, and you could tell he is still polishing up his act. He did about 15 minutes and included a few plugs, but who goes to a show for the opening act?

Before Louie hits the stage they show a video montage of his career, you forget how many things he's been in, and then the big guy hits the stage.

If you know of Louie, you know that he's from MN, he grew up pretty poor, his mom was a packrat, and he's fat. That is the premise of most of his set, some of the jokes are older than me, but his timing is pretty solid, and his jokes are well polished.

He also threw in some current event riffs, including a charlie sheen riff that included the line of the night, "his new show is going to be 2 and a Half Kilos".

I will admit his show isn't for everyone, he doesn't work blue, he said Shit once and immediatley apologized for it, and the show is "all ages" but the average age of the crowd was on the far side of 50. However if you get the chance to scoop up some discounted tickets, it's a good time, the show with opener clocked in at a little under 90 mins, which was about the right amount of time.

I do have to say that even thought I didn't drink, the prices in the theater seemed fairly reasonable, and the service was impressively fast, so they have that going for them as well.

I am now heading out to play in the 2pm poker tourney at TI, another of my 30 for 30 items, but also this will allow me to observe some if the IMOP debauchery. (I will go into details in my next post.