From Maspeth to Manchester

My third-favourite Bosnian comedian booked a comedy show Friday night in the middle of a Ukrainian restaurant in Maspeth.

July 13th, 2017
Maspeth— Queens, NY

My third-favourite Bosnian comedian booked a comedy show Friday night in the middle of a Ukrainian restaurant in Maspeth.

I was booked to MC the ‘show’ to a grand audience of 6 local diners who didn't know there would be a “show” happening.

What the booker didn't realise was that there would be a diabolical storm flooding New York City that night, keeping most sane people in their homes. There were 8 comics on the show who had all schlepped to Queens for the show, each finding it more brutal than the next to get the attention of the soggy diners, staring blankly into their borscht. What a night.

I went straight from the show to Laguardia and jumped on a very turbulent red-eye flight to Manchester, only to be kept wide awake by a fellow passenger with questionable personal boundaries and an inconsolably screaming baby. Thomas Cook Airlines didn't have seat-back screens o…