Milton, DE — A local open mic has become the epicenter of regional culture in the few seconds it took to determine that comedian Meredith Clay has decided to bring the ukulele she has with her on stage.
“Nobody was prepared for this,” said bartender Curtis Freamon, who was present for the performance. “When I saw her come in, I thought, why would she bring a ukulele? You don’t need a ukulele to drink, and you definitely don’t need one to be funny. So you can imagine how nuts it was to see her get on stage with it. We all just sat there with bated breath.”
Host and producer Sasha Zimoti, was perhaps the most taken aback by this shocking development.
“I figured she must have been lost,” Zimoti recalled, “because one, ukuleles aren’t funny, and two, only children like playing or listening to a ukulele. But then she introduced herself as Meredith, and I realized she was on the lineup. Had I known she wasn’t going to throw the uke in the garbage before going up, I would have asked her to leave.”
The performance could be seen through window of Porkboy’s Tavern, where the open mic took place, and passers-by gathered to watch from outside when they saw what was happening.
“Shit, I stopped dead in my tracks,” said Jordan Cauley, who was walking past Porkboy’s on his way home. “There was a girl on stage with a ukulele, but the sign outside the door said ‘open mic comedy’. The dissonance was almost too much for me, I get a migraine just thinking about it.”
At press time, sources were able to confirm that although Clay brought her ukulele on stage with her, she forgot the bit it involved and never played it.
By Tyler Dark.
The Bringer 