Corrected date, 2i8th not 21st!!!!

Next Comedy & Caffeine will be June 28th at 9pm.    Featuring Owen Thomas, Trish Nelson and Chris Young.

Comedy & Caffeine this month, June 21st.

Headliner Owen Thomas finally got the courage to try stand up in late 2006 and quickly has become one of the fastest rising stars in the Midwest .  He started out performing anywhere with a microphone, from hole in the wall bars to   bowling alleys and even an AA meeting.  He covers a wide array of topics spanning from American society to his trouble meeting women.  On stage, he has a very likable persona that comes off as soft spoken and humble but catches the audience off guard when he reveals his true somewhat demented self.  His self-deprecating style helped him win numerous contests on his way up the comedy ladder, and his originality has garnered him respect from his peers. He has also opened for many great national acts including Saturday Night Live alum, Norm MacDonald and Tracy Morgan.  He is a favorite at many clubs including Connxtions Comedy Club, Joey’s Comedy Club and the Funny Stop.  Owen summons his material from his inner child who is by no coincidence a sexually frustrated, chain-smoking, college drop out.

Post Easter ranting...

Hello all, hope the holiday weekend was good for everyone.   Whew, it has been an intense last few days, learned somethings about some people I didn't want or need to know.   In some cases it was a friend who made me feel uncomfortable and I can deal with them but sadly, it was people we do business with---or I should say,"were going to do business with" and that kind of put a cloud over the weekend. 

Thank goodness for my kids who made my birthday on Saturday one of the best ever, no question.   And yesterday I had the honor to perform three times  in our church play.    Those two wonderful things were sandwiched by some very seedy and dishonorable dealings. 

Briefly the April show for Performances @ The Well is canceled and the May show is in jeopardy.
I don't know how these people look themselves in the mirrors honestly but, I digress.   For those of you who don't know, at Performances @ The Well we try to put on a monthly show to help aspiring artists AND a local charitable group.   Doing this monthly we can't continue to ask for volunteers or freebies from our friends.   So we approach every show with set costs in mind, more out of respect to our friends who have believed in us and put the time in; also so that when we HAVE to pay, when a friend can't do it for free, funds have been budgeted in.   It's a proven system that works, developing a win-win situation and lots of times...the money made is donated anyways.   But we treat our help with respect it's that simple.

A group approached us last Thanksgiving saying they wanted to partner with us in our mission.  Great we thought.   We thought wrong.   This group really really wanted to play for this particular charity, which was cool with us except...Now just three weeks ago we meet the "contact" for this particular charity and he insisted we move the show to May---we accommodated thinking finding some kind of "filler" for that April night and we really want to work with this group and the charity.   The contact did not like us having control over our show????   Other than ego I couldn't grasp what his problem was.   Then on Good Friday, I found out they (this group and their charity contact) had not only held a meeting without us, but had been taking our program and shopping it around to other facilities!!!   This blew us away.   The group and charity then insisted that I forgo any loyalty to our workers and let them have our facility for the insulting amount of $75.
  One thing has lead to another and that group will not be playing our show.  


What's really crazy and never ceases to amaze me is that certain questionable people never seem to think that you (I) might actually talk to one of the other parties.   Of course stories don't match, you learn what was said about you and your program, you learn of meetings that happened without our presence.   Really people if you're going to shady, get your act together and get all cohorts on the same page!  

Bottom line folks, if you hear something bad about me or anyone here at Lamocu please let us know.   For one thing some of the stuff we have learned over the weekend, just isn't true.   And for another thing, I will go to bat for my crew and the people that have devoted their time, efforts and their Saturday nights at the Well.   So if you hear I got "defensive" or even "irritable" on this situation...I DID.   Class, dignity, professionalism, these people had none of these traits.

Now so that we might have something positive out of this blog, here are the people who have made Performances @ The Well something that I,and the rest of us here at Lamocu, tremendously proud of.
Michael Eaton, Consumer Choice Marketing
Robert & Anne Marie Clark
Ron Burgett of Peg Leg Studios
Frank McCoil
Robert Jinisk
Jeff Waterman
Ken Peters
Sandra Mauer
Mike Favoratto
mess with the above and I get defensive :)   Rock on, until next time, stay tuned.  

The Guild Rises

"The Guild of Insightful Sounds" was formed a few years ago as a Meet-Up site.   After a few changes the site went down, but the concept remained.   In the April issue of our local newspaper, the Courant, "The Guild of Insightful Sounds" column premieres.  

We look forward to this opportunity to spread the word on everything from speakers to musicians who share their "gift" with us.   Of course there will be references to "Performances @ The Well", "Summerfest", and other Lamocu events, I mean that's our job :)   I always wonder about the people who complains about others by saying "well they're only do that because..." yeah, well everyone does everything really because of a "because".   I mean we all have a reason for doing what we do right?   I'm rambling here, conspiracy theories and paranoia seem to be dominant today, must have been the episode of  "The Lone Gunman" I saw last night.  Whew.   Back to business news.

Here is the new logo for Lamocu Smith's "Comedy & Caffeine".   Met with Mo, the brains of Craven Comedy Productions and we will be scouting out future locations soon.   But here it is, what we hope is that start of something big.   Logo designed by Dave Murray of Good Stuff Studios in  Ann Arbor.
That's it for now, remember  it IS Spring....but don't spit into the wind, keep your stick on the ice and Stay Tuned.  

Performances @ The Well, this Saturday

Lilly MacPhee will be one of the "friends" with Frank McCoil this Saturday.   Donations will be taken at the door for the Faith Medical Clinic which burned down a few weeks ago.

Lilly is just one of the talented local performers bringing their talent to our stage for this worthy cause.   Stop by, showtime is 7pm.   Until later, stay tuned.  

Comic news!

Rico Flanagan, one of the original performers at Lamocu Smith's "Comedy & Caffeine" has just put out a new cd.   You can check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/album/man-law/

We're very proud of Rico and for those who have supported us at Peaberry's, this is a special treat for you.   If anyone questions the seriousness of our performers or the quality of their acts, just check out Rico's cd.  

More later, so stay tuned!  

Lamocu Smith's Comedy & Caffeine, 2/22/13

For February our featured comics will be Khurum Sheikh and Ed Barto.    Showtime is 9pm and admission is only $10.   Our MC again will be Aaron Campbell.

Khurum Sheikh is a 25 year veteran of the Ann Arbor Police Department and has performed stand-up comedy throughout America, but was born in Pakistan. 

He will be the only Pakistani Police Officer doing stand-up comedy in Whitmore Lake you're apt to see in all of 2013!

Ed has been doing comedy almost 3 years, he's appeared at bars and clubs in Mi., Ind., IL., and Ohio.

He finished 2nd in The Jestival Comedy Competition this year and is a finalist in The Clash of the Comics at The Toledo Funny Bone

Ed is bald, fat and over 50, so he has plenty of things to bitch about, but remember he's not bitching at you he's bitching with you.

Ed has opened for Steve Sabo, Bill Bushart, Larry Reeb and Chili Challis.

Our MC for the evening, the very talented
Aaron Campbell----