First off was Brandon T. Jackson. I had seen him in a couple movies but didn't know that he actually did stand up until it was announced that he was coming through Wiseguys. I ended having a date for this one. He was pretty funny. I went to the late show for this and Brandon came out afterwards to meet fans. He was pretty cool. I got my photo with him and he signed my Wiseguys T-shirt too.
The next weekend I went and saw Aziz Ansari. He had heard that Utah was a good place to do standup and since he's been preparing for his next tour he decided that he would practice his new material here. It was announced 2 days before his shows that he would be doing 6 shows. They all sold out in less than 24 hours. He was very funny! Most comedians only perform for an hour but Aziz performed for a whole hour in a half which was very cool. He joked about hipsters and guys who send penis pictures to girls. He didn't meet fans after but I got a staff member to get him to sign my Wiseguys T-shirt for me and he was kind enough to do so.
Tonight I went and saw Kevin Pollak. Kevin would be considered a real movie star. He's acted with some of the biggest names in Hollywood like Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Bruce Willis. Kevin currently has an interview podcast where he will usually interview people from television and film for almost 2 hours. I've enjoyed listening to it. He was very funny and by the end my side was hurting from so much laughter. Kevin is known for his impersonations especially for his spot on impersonation of Christopher Walken. In fact tonight he did his Walken for about 10 minutes and talked about the couple of times that he met him. He also did his Peter Falk, Jack Nicholson, William Shatner and Alan Arkin impersonations.
He talked about how on 3 separate occasions he pretended to be Alan. The first time he called Alan and left a message to him pretending to be Alan leaving himself a message. Alan called him back later and said how for 8 whole mins he tried to remember leaving himself a message and that it wasn't funny. The 2nd time Alan was being interviewed on Larry King Live and Kevin called in pretending to be Alan trying to find out what was going on. The real Alan had his head down and was laughing then looked at the camera knowing that it was Kevin and told him to stop it. The 3rd time Kevin called Paul Reiser and left him a message pretending to be Alan inviting him over to stay at his cabin for a week. Kevin was having dinner with Paul and his wife and Paul told him that Alan Arkin had invited him and the wife to stay with him for a week. When Kevin told him that it was him pretending to be Alan, Paul got pissed because as it turns out Paul had called Alan and left him a message thanking him for the invite. Later that night Alan called Kevin and told him that he had to stop pretending to be him because it now it looked like Paul was going to be staying with him for a week and that he's never even met Paul Reiser.
Earlier today I had sent a tweet to Kevin asking him if he was gonna meet fans afterwards in which he sent me a tweet back saying Hell Yea. I met him, got a photo with him, had him autograph his Comedy Dvd and like usual my Wiseguys T-shirt. I told him that I enjoyed his podcast. He thanked me for watching it and for coming to the show. I also told him that I sent him a tweet and he was like cool, so that was you. I was then informed by one of the opening acts that he was asking about me during the first show. I so wish I had been at that show because that would of been very cool to experience. I then got to shake Kevin's hand and told him it was a pleasure to meet him and he again thanked me for coming to his show. He was one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
