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The
Wit's End Comedy Club is a group of serious jokers who are always at their
wit's end... duh?? It all began eight years ago as a support group, and
still is, when two guys Tom Rader Joe Tyler, Joe met Kay Frazier at the
Cantina Los Tres Hombres open mic night. They began as the "Comic Connection",
a club which missed connections and ran out of towns to play. The Wit's
End, however picked up chuckles and never knuckled under. It's had as
many as 11 members at any one time. Joe played quarterback and his parents
spent thousands of dollars to put him through school and all they got
was a quarterback who later turned into a comedian. Sometimes their pro-bono
shows at the Washoe County Library every other month have been 2 and a
half hour long comedy marathons - like a dance-athon, only the audience
literally gags themselves into convulsions.
Tom Rader lifts his crowd and then puts
them down. "You're the kind of audience crowd that would go to an orgy
and complain about the cheese dip!!" He berates his wife when he talks
about their vacation to Catalina Island and he says she was all right
when she figured out the way the oars worked.
Duckee Johnson (Dennis Johnson) is hard
to get around. He's big. He touts alcohol as a pastime and says things
like, "I tried to out drink her but she was already under the table!"
He does Donald Duck, Hong Kong Gentleman, and Scotland Yard Investigator
characters. He's improvised a new way to make money - he steals it!
Jim Scott has a highly quotable cesspool
of benign bitches that includes an elderly man who goes to the Mustang
Ranch looking for a union house and winds up with an old hag because she
has union seniority. Jim is 81 years old and quickly becomes your long
lost grandfather who plies the people with a multiplicity of lines that
keep everyone rolling over in their graves.
Kay Frazier works outside the Wit's End
and has Funny Matters talent agency. It's hard to hold her down because
she's a veritable dirigible of fat platitudes. Jim always wants a bigger
part whenever she's around. She's gone through more stages than Wells
Fargo.
 Joe
Tyler often emcees the shows. He also owns and trains the only feathered
headliner of the Wit's End, a comic parrot, that figuratively bites
people with his, "Joe... Joe... Bark like a dog!!" Oh sure, he'll say,
"I love you", too. But Joe gets even and says,"Talk is cheap so
use more fifty-cent words you multifaceted bird-brain, Buckwheat!".
When asked if Buckwheat can talk, he says, "You stupid, can you fly?"
Sometimes he gets his batteries put in crooked and burps instead of
whistling, but it's all imitation to him!
For more information on The Wit's End Comedy Club,
please call Joe Tyler (775)-329-3260
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