One more day and then the road again, KKN continues!!

We made it back from New West with an overnight stop in Kamloops as daylight had long run out on us due to a late departure. The show went well and all had a great time but the trip was one of the most draining I have been on. I am used to zipping out, doing the show (and rocking the room of course!! ) then taking off to home or the next town. Not this trip. There is more to do than just 'show'.
Just as I thought we were just going to hit the road, the other members of the KKN committee informed me they had meetings with people, cheques to drop off, last minute details to take care of; things not normally attached to a comedy tour. We also made an unexpected trip to a dyalisis unit to drop off the decorative balloon boquets that we had to decorate the venue. It would be a shame to let them go to waste so Sheri decided to donate them to a local dyalisis unit to cheer it up. If you want to test your agility and patience, try to load to 6 foot+ balloon boquets into an already full mini van on a windy day! I felt like a juggler with live objects on strings!

I had never been to a dyalisis unit before. I had dropped Kerry Talmage off at one in Lethbridge once but never went in. I thought I kind of knew what it was all about, just go in for a procedure and then out. It was a sobering moment to see people hooked up to machines to cleanse their blood. While life saving it is no way to live and it really hit home why we are all party of Kidney Komedy Night. The look of boredom (it takes hours to do), pain and lowered health of these patients made me grateful to have 2 functioning kidneys. To have to take time out of your schedule, on a regular basis, to do something most of our bodies do that we take for granted, have tubes stuck in you, then sit there with not much to do than watch shitty TV, read or attempt sleep while in a state of HUGE discomfort, would be a drop in quality of life for anyone. I don't know how Kerry did it for all those years and still delivered killer shows.

Tomorrow we leave for Saskatoon to set up for show number 2 and meet the local volunteers. This one should be a blast as the venue looks awesome and S'toon is known for having great crowds.

Last night I picked up the prize package, for the Calgary show, that The Comedy Cave so graciously donated and bumped into Dan Quinn who had stopped in to visit his pal, Drake Witham who had just finished a great headline set. Dan just happened to have some CDs with him and donated some to the remaining shows. Thanks Dan.

We have created a comedy prize basket, of comics merchandise, to be auctioned off and if New Westminster is any indication, this is going to be a popular item and helps achieve the second goal of the event: To promote stand-up comics and comedy.
Dan is a funny, good looking young man...okay, young compared to me, and I am sure his CD will be a hit with the ladies as it has a photo of him in bed on the cover! Ladies...buy your tickets now!! Oh yeah, it contains some funny stuff too. In fact each title track of the disc ends in "stuff".
My CD and DVD have no bed pics, just my usual good looking mug adorning the sleeve. Sorry ladies, I am just trying to save you the pain of seeing me in bed!!

I apologize for the lack of pics on this blog. I realized that my camera was rarely used and the other 2 in the van did all the picture taking. I will get the pics up as soon as they are sent to me.
I hope to see a lot of you at the remaining shows.
For more info visit:
Kidney Komedy Night

cheers
Daryl Makk