I am a big fan of Lewis Black, who just may be my favorite comedian working these days. I especially enjoy watching his show.
What show? Lewis Black has a show? Yes, he does and I've mentioned this here before. Most weeks, he is in some city on this continent doing his stand-up along with his opening act, John Bowman. At the close of each show, he does an additional 15-25 minutes that is streamed live to the Internet. I told you all about it here and yes, he's still doing it. However, I should also have mentioned that he has a fan club that you can join on his website for twenty bucks a year.
Now, you may be asking yourself, "Why the hell would I want to do this?" Well, two reasons…
- It gives you access to sections of his website that may interest you including interviews and articles and the complete archive of his little Internet shows. At any given time, you can view the most recent five or six of them for free but membership will allow you to watch 75 or so of them at your leisure. They're pure, mostly-spontaneous Lewis Black and they're usually quite good.
- It gives you the chance to purchase, without paying absurd fees to scalpers or ticket agents, good seats to upcoming live Lewis Black concerts. He has tour dates up for the rest of the year in, among other cities: Des Moines, Rochester, Skokie, San Francisco, Reno, Wichita, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Monterey and quite a few more. I got seats for his December 10 gig in Los Angeles. They're supposed to be in the first four rows and I paid $90 each. Online agents are already asking $400 each for seats in the twentieth row…so that $20 fee to join his fan club is looking like a great investment.
And there are other reasons to join but if you like the guy, those two oughta be enough. That's all I have to say about this.