UPDATE: The VIP+Shirt level is now available.

This is what it sounds like. A comedy roast, by professional roasters, bloggers, and radiomen, of John U. Bacon, online, live, at 8:30 PM EST of March 6, 2021, with all proceeds going to the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, because if we don’t we probably won’t have it anymore.

If you want to see it, it’s $10 for the first 150 people and $15 after.

Also there’s a VIP hangout after.

Right, we’ll also do a VIP hangout/Q&A with Bacon and the roasters after the show for those who want to give a bit more.

Also a Shirt

And oh right, there’s a shirt option on the Eventbrite too. We’re still getting the design ready but it’s based on this:

I’ll have a post when we have it ready. We’ll run the shirts the way we do for HTTV: I’ll email you a link you can take to put in your order and then it will track through Underground Printing.

TIERS

ARGH there’s an error on the signup that will get fixed this morning in Pacific Time, but this is the plan:

• $50: Gets you into the show + the t-shirt + the VIP chat after the show.
• $30: Gets you into the show + the t-shirt
• $15: Gets you into the show
• $10: Same as the $15 for the first 150 people who sign up.

The error is there’s a $25 show+VIP option on there right now.

[After THE JUMP: How it came together]

The Story

It began when my best friend sent me a tweet.

Please donate to help The Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase survive the pandemic. This club is my home away from home and I wouldn’t be the comic I am without it. Anything helpshttps://t.co/YLXFFIPohd

— Brad Wenzel (@BradWenzel) January 31, 2021

I read it over six times, the way you read news that someone you very much were not done with was going to die. I mean, we just spent all fall trying to make sure Ann Arbor institutions we love would still exist at the other side of this. I clicked around to be sure it was real. Then I sent it to Jason Sklar, because I knew he’d be even more horrified.

He was. He got Randy. We bounced around ideas. A show. It’s got to be comedy, because duh. What can we do that’s funny, mispronounce the names of basketball players from Detroit? Deep cut State basketball jokes? Make fun of Harbaugh? Not the time. Make fun of Beilein? Hmmm, no he’s too nice. Brian? No, needs to be famous enough for people to care. Sam? Nobody can hate on Sam. Needs a heart deep enough to let us take shots at him for charity, a hockey player’s ribcage to survive it, and a face that everyone wants to …Omigod I’ve got it.

The Sklars productively asked Jeff Ross, because who doesn’t respect a home comedy club. I texted Bacon, who chose to reply mere minutes before his Friday show. It was a very polite conversation:

So I called in, wormed my way past Miz, and issued a challenge. Somehow Sam Webb got blamed for it (16:30):

The upshot is Bacon said yes.

So we’re doing this. Saturday March 6, 8:30 PM eastern. I’m still putting the panel together a bit but the lineup will be at least as good as the above and probably way better. UPDATE: Bruce Madej and Holly Anderson too!