unofficial snowflakes thread - John U Bacon Roast
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Damn I missed this! Where can I catch the highlights?
Sounds like the organizers may release the video in the future, but for the meantime it's just a memorable ZOOM meeting. Some of the highlights are mentioned below, however, mostly related to the whiteness of John U Bacon.
I didn't know Bacon was that white.
Undercooked.
The Albino Joe Buck.
He's so white *he* pulls the *cops* over!
Ohhhh, that is so bad!
Must be because you're not racist cuz you don't see color.
Bruce madej
That’s all. He’ll say the rest. Believe me
John brought home his report card, and he had four Fs and a D. His dad said he could see the problem. “You’re putting too much focus on that one class!”
we learned that being a friend on John Bacon from high school through college to the present day and having a sense of humor are incompatible. I was regretting having recycled my old paint cans. I could have used some to paint a wall just to watch it dry for some excitement.
I was paired with a threesome playing golf near Culver, Indiana. One of the guys played hockey with John U Bacon at Culver Academy. Noticing my Michigan hat and polo, he asked if I ever heard of a John Bacon. Not that I’m familiar with any other John Bacons from Michigan, but it took me a minute to realize he was referring to John U Bacon. The guy was bewildered when I explained that Michigan fans call him John U Bacon.
Cool story bro!
Did anybody roast him for hanging out with his old high school hockey student athletes and drinking with the when they got to college being a really old creepy guy at young college parties?
I heard about him going to the old college parties but not to the young ones.
Sam threw a cradle robbing joke at him, Harbaugh and I think maybe Jamie Morris
They needed to work on their volume levels. You would think a professional outfit could work that out.
Ira Weintraub was the most challenged with his microphone. We could barely hear him. Considering his day job is the producer for sports talk radio we found that ironic. He must have been missing his intern.
I don't want to throw Nowhere Comedy Club under the bus because they did a great job at so many things nobody else could manage (imagine 600 people on a zoom call, unmuted so we can hear them all laugh). But Ira's sound was on them. We did a sound check 45 minutes before the show but it started very late, and their answer to Ira's hot mic was to have him move back from it. It turned out to be a Windows setting--if you guys remember there were some WTKA shows this year when I had a hot mic. Same problem. Windows 10 lets plug-in mics get turned up to 100% unless you control it through their sound control panel, and this is infuriating because old plug-in mics will top out if you don't attenuate them.
They also didn't tell us our volume settings would go back to default when we left the "Green Room." I figured it out but only realized too late that it affected everyone else too. I got that communicated to the other guys but we never got back to where we were in sound check.
Also, I know it's ironic that the radio guys of all people should have trouble with zoom calls, but they use their own pro software for their shows. The guys who use zoom calls for recording all the time are me, Ace, and Brian, though I am looking at a new solution for that because zoom's audio quality issues are manifest, and we end up recording ourselves in three parts them recombining them in editing.
No need to throw anyone under the bus. The show was great and was for a good cause in saving the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase. The performers and the producers were very generous with the time spent putting on the show. The technological issues just added to the roast. We had a good time.
Thanks for doing this fundraiser for the Comedy Showcase (and other local establishments)!
And Ira's audio wasn't that bad once people stopped audibly complaining about it.
I wanna see her crying, sorry pony conqueror....
Wherefore art thou, The Pony Conqueror? Surely the Bolivian round trip is over.
I was shocked at how smoothly it went and how entertaining it was. The Sklar brothers were hilarious and professional, keeping the event rolling along and adding Waldorf and Statler-style trolling when necessary. Madej knocked the cover off the ball for the 1st chunk of his 30 minutes. Holly Anderson was terrific and Seth and Brian surprised to the upside.
Bacon's rebuts were solid, funny and obviously full of affection for his roasters, but the unsung star of the show was...us! The scrolling comments along the side were fantastic.
Honestly, the tech issues were nonissues. I simply adjusted my volume on my zoom here at home. Zero long delays or actual outages. Best of all it raised a decent chunk of money for a great cause. Great job all, Go Blue!
No such thing as a short poem.....
of course the standup comedians were funny but Seth, Brian, Holly and Spencer killed it.
shoutout to the lady who was complaining about Zingermans during Klepper’s set...
I don’t think “Seth wasn’t bad” is a hot take, I thought he was quite good!
My hot takes are that Jeff Ross was funny but not as funny as I expected and that Madej was pretty funny even if he did go on and on
Hats off to Seth for putting together a fun night for a great cause! Holly was hilarious, including observation that Bacon happened to sit behind Harbaugh in Algebra class, and turned it into a career. Brian had a great schtick about Bacon’s precocious articulate 2 year old, who pleaded nightly with his Dad to read children’s books, not yet another chapter about Halifax fire or RichRod. Night was a great mix of inside humor from local heroes and sharp wit from pro comedians. Thank you!