TR snippet Riviera comedy

The American Casino Guide offers two free tickets to the Riviera Comedy Club.

I wanted to call to confirm I could go on a particular Saturday night. 

I started with the 800 number on the coupon and the menu of options would make a good comedy routine in itself, but I thought I had navigated pretty well and finally, after a number of choices of numbers I was talking to a live person.  At Ticketron.  And not in Las Vegas.  So that was useless.

So I looked up the 702 number in my American Casino Guide.

Same menu.

I hit zero.

Live person at the Riviera who directed me to the box office.

Easy confirmation that they were showing the show.

The show was great.  I had seen John Bizarre twice last trip.  He gets around a lot.  I like him, but I suspected I'd hear the same routine.  There were some stories that were repeated, but basically much of his comedy was new.  I could see him jumping around his repertoire and picking where to go next.  Also, his off the cuff interaction with the audience was just great. 

With him was a heavy, Jewish comic with a ponytail.  Perhaps someone knows the name.  I missed it.  He was good too.

As well as comedy, he asked people where they were from and he gave them their phone area code.  He got them all right.  He also had a fast and well memorized routine using car names as funny acronyms.  He had one for each kind of car.   
He must have a phenomenal memory.

So, it was a good show.

I saw a fellow at Sam’s Town Toast of the Town ask
people to give their mailing zip code and he told them
where they lived.  It is an interesting addition to a
magic act.

I walked from there down the strip to the Flamingo.  At ten PM on a Saturday night that was a great walk.  I don't think I've walked that part of the strip in a few years.  I loved the lights and the activity and all the sexy girls outfitted in lingerie.  I also started to notice pretty girls in dresses that swirled bright and interesting color in circles around them. One girl was walking with her boyfriend directly in front of me for a long while and I loved that look of swirling stripes that blended from color to color.  It was an incredibly windy night and her long hair whipped around her bare shoulders in various patterns.  She was all grace and beauty and just fine to watch.

Part of my enjoyment was that I had new glasses and they especially helped clarify things at night.  The lights along the strip were incredibly clear.  Encore in particular just looked wonderful with the tall sweeping lines and such a thin building reaching up to the stars. 

To settle my thirst I stopped and bought a large can of PEACE lemonade.  Just 50 calories and little artificial except a bit of sucralose which seems safe.  There are a number of varieties of flavors in most convenience stores including the Walgreen's downtown, that store along Flamingo on the way to  Koval with the 99 year lease and one of the stores along the North strip.  I like the green tea best. 

I try to get as much green tea in me everyday because there have been some good reports connecting green tea with longevity.

It satisfies. 

I even buy one to take up to the El Cortez poker room now that any good alcohol has been removed from the menu.  It cost a dollar, the same as a tip, and one can is twice the size of a can of coke.  I wish they had it in my neighborhood at home. We have Arizona brand with plenty of words I can’t pronounce.  Sometimes, some of their varieties are 210 calories. 

One interesting trivia note is that the bus stop in front of the Riviera is labeled "Riveira Bus Stop."  You can see that from upstairs in the Deuce.  I laughed.

I did not gamble at the zero wheel of roulette, in fact, I even forgot to use my matchplays. 
p.s.  That single zero wheel has not been removed. 12/12