The Acme Comedy Club, is Minneapolis comedy Heaven?

Where have you been all my life Minneapolis?

How did it take me so long to find you?

As a comic you learn to adjust your shows to the crowds as time goes by. This is necessary to get the laughs that get you booked again and again, but often that adjustment is at the expense of the quirky cool stuff that you find most funny. The obscure references, the playful whimsy of a chance improv that might not come to fruition of laughs, these are left behind for the always working steadfast staple comedy topics and bits that make our shows some what repetitive to us as performers.

Minneapolis encourages the parts of your show that we love to perform, it is the best audiences for references I have ever experienced and they are fans of stand up, which makes sense considering the awesome talent this city has produced. Nick Swardsen, Mitch Hedberg, KP Anderson, Dave Mordal, Maria Bamford just to name a few. And I was always curious to see where such unique characters such as these could develop, as many are too refined for the harsh heckler, drunken one nighter land that stretches this continent, and I have discovered that oasis here in Minneapolis.

The club has you doing a ton of radio, the stations treat the comics really well, and people listen and show up. They treat comedy with a respect you just don't get very many places anymore, and after the shows the enthusiastic crowds engage and talk and become a part of the experience. Minneapolis is comedy heaven for someone who really loves the fine nuances of watching or performing fine stand up.

I can only hope that this excellent club management style is rewarded, and its doors stay open so that other establishments around the country can learn, and evolve to the place where comedy has become a balanced enterprise of art and commerce, rather than the laugh mills for beer money that place good comedy last infront of the short term windfall of quick alcohol sales that is pulling this industry in the wrong direction elsewhere.