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| - What a great experience, if there's one "show" you should see in Vegas it is the one at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club (at the Tropicana).
My girlfriend and I weren't planning on seeing any shows due to a lack of interest but when we got to our hotel we leafed through some of the magazines there and noticed that Brad Garrett was going to be in town playing at his Comedy Club and thought that it would probably be worthwhile. Both of us attend the Comedy Club in Madison, WI fairly regularly and it is almost always a great experience so we figured a Vegas club would be even better. Thus here is the basic process-
There were two selections for tickets - VIP ($60 per person, first 5 rows), and Standard Seating ($40 per person, first come first serve). After now having gone there I would opt for the Standard Seating despite the fact that we got VIP. Whether you get VIP or not, you still will have to wait in line for a while and due to the heckling (which I'll get to in a minute) the VIP probably isn't worth it. Our show started at 8pm, and I'd say if you get there at about 7-7:15pm you'll be guaranteed a good seat. It's a typical comedy club layout, aka small tables and chairs and not a big theater where sitting a ways back would take you out of the experience. So honestly, pocket the extra $20 per person and go Standard as you'll still have a great time and the VIP doesn't give you any benefits other than being close up.
The seating is a little awkward, as they seriously have tried to jam way too many tables / chairs in to make as much money as possible. My girlfriend and I had a pretty big gap between us and the host was not terribly accommodating. The waitress that we had honestly could speak about 3-4 words of English, so once we ordered our beers from their limited menu we just stuck to what we had ordered because she wasn't understanding anything we said and she wasn't that prompt. My girlfriend and I both had 3 beers over the course of the show, which I suppose is about average for the comedy clubs I've been to. Come to think of it, if the waitress had been around more it probably would have been a bigger distraction so I'm glad we got the amount we did.
But let me get onto the good part because really this is what you came to see; the Comedy Show itself.
I've been to probably about 40-50 standup acts in my lifetime, and I have to say that this was hands down the funniest and best time that I have EVER had. We were treated to four comics, and all of them were extremely hilarious, to the point where I was in tears at one point laughing. I don't think there's been more classic lines uttered at any of the shows I've been to then this one, I really thought I was going to mess my pants during this show due to how much I was laughing. The opening guy "Dietzch"? looked like a bum on crack and acted accordingly, followed by two very solid comics who perfectly set the mood for Brad Garrett to come in and drop a complete comedy explosion on the audience. The crowd was roaring throughout most of the set, and I'm sure almost everyone had a fantastic time.
I say "almost" everyone because there is a big warning that needs to be put in this review. Garrett's humor is an attack on stereotypes, and he heckles to an extreme. If you can handle those two things and enjoy that, then you will for sure get every dollar's worth of your money. He literally picks on just about every race, nationality, and microcosm of our society so trust me your flavor will be picked on. The people in the first two rows were also brutally heckled, to the point where he called one man's wife a Hooker and went on a tirade to the point where the guy asked him to stop embarrassing her. Part of me felt bad for him, but the other part of me was laughing hysterically so in the end I was just glad it wasn't my girlfriend he was talking about. Speaking of which, we got very lucky because we were three rows back from dead-center stage and for some reason he bypassed us in the heckling. Maybe we looked average enough to not give him ammunition :D.
In the end though folks, it's all jokes and that's what Garrett tried to stress anytime someone got a little touchy over the humor. And his extremeism is what makes the show an absolute riot and a delight to be a participant in. This is easily the best standup comedy act I have ever witnessed, and you too should join that club.
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