Performing For Senior Residences

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Jeff Love

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While on comedy tours, I always contacted the retirement facilities in the area so I could perform my senior comedy show for the residents. When I would arrive, the facility mangers would hover around me, show me to the auditorium or area I was to perform in. They could not do enough for me, thanking me profusely. "Mr. Love is there anything we can do?"

Thirty years later, I am performing for a room of my peers. When I arrive for shows now, the managers greet me with, "Mr. Love, thank you so much for coming. Can we show you a model apartment?"
 

Are your jokes different now that you're the butt of many of them? I imagine there's more self deprecating material.
 

At 78, I might be tempted to try my hand at comedy sometime, but I think I would have to make it "Sit down comedy " instead of "Stand up comedy ". My barber is a young guy in his late twenties, who also is a partner in a weekend comedy club down town.

I went one night and was I ever surprised, because the " Comedy Club " was actually in the basement of a house. Seating capacity was about 20 people, and the door charge was $20 a person. The comedians were all under age 25, and all of them were READING their jokes from their I Phones. Not in the least bit funny. Oh and the guy was charging $ 9 for a can of warm beer. It was funny, but not in the way he probably intended it to be. I have a new barber, now. JIMB.
 

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