Jersey City, NJ — Stand-up comedian Ricky Tucker was disappointed to learn at a recent show that his saved drink tickets cannot be redeemed for top shelf liquor.
“I’ve been looking forward to that top shelf drink ever since the first time I performed on The Totally Funzies Comedy Show,” said a forlorn Tucker over a mixed drink made with Bowman’s. “They should be like any other money, where more of it is worth more, and vice versa. Is that such a crazy idea?”
Every Monday night at The C’mon Inn seven comedians are invited to perform in the bar’s back hallway. For their set that night they each get two drink tickets, or four if a comedian is friends with a sober comic also on the line-up. Tucker has done the show eight times in the last year and has accumulated almost twenty drink tickets that he keeps in his wallet.
“I would just rather have three fingers of Grey Goose once than ten shots of Vlad,” he wrote on Twitter. “What sort of economic culture are we promoting in the world of comedy, if we can’t reward the patience and fiscal responsibility required to save drink tickets like this?”
Sam Vogelsang, a bartender at The C’mon Inn, has stated that in addition to it being against policy to comp top shelf drinks, he was suspicious some of Tucker’s tickets were fraudulent.
“Some were red. Some were blue. Several were the ‘KEEP THIS COUPON’ ticket,” Vogelsang pointed out while cutting a lime into fifty-four slivers. “Who’s to say he isn’t bringing in tickets from a different show? Hell, a roll of 500 raffle tickets is less than five dollars if you have Amazon Prime. Just keep the whole roll in your backpack, dude. I’d never know if you actually performed or not, because I’m always hovering over my phone while it’s charging by the register during the show.”
When Tucker was asked how he could perform all of those stand-up sets without even one comped drink as a reward, he responded, “Well, I’m pretty much always baked, so…”
By Alex Grubard.
The Bringer 