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^omeai enterti 11 small ci Comedy Store i By Barry J. Glenn Entertainment Editor The one-liners, parodies an impressions prevailed Thursda night in the Russell Hous Ballroom as three comedians fror the Comedy Store performe before a small and sometime: disinterested audience. Ba publicity resulted in poor ai tendance but those who came wer treated to more than two hours ( hilnritv The three comedians, Fre Raker, Bob Saget and Jeff DeHar are products of the Comedy Ston the prestigious "factory" fc pomirs lnratpd in I^>s Anceles TV ~ ~ ? ? ? D trio is in the midst of a college toi that also has carried them to tl USC campuses in Spartanburi Sumter, Aiken as well as i Clemson. The three comedians exhibited varifitv of stvles. Raker's seemei * ? / O of the show was composed most of one-liners, reminiscing < The i ?*+ L Hand l~k ? i f /ilim/vn C uy l^CllfflUli ULUCO Gamecock StaH Writer THE WEEK ON TV Here begins a two-part series your favorite TV shows. Maybe sure that you would like to see tl u-mergency: uage ana lkjoo singlehandedly put out a four-s Los Angeles Freeway, and s diverting the course of a giant n Hawaii Five-O: McGarrett fi I putting him on a liquid protein all his cases by saying, "Bok Sha Na Na: Guest star Alice tune of "At the Hop." The grc Diddy," "Sh-Boom de Ah-Dah Gurgle." Gilliaan'fi Island: The Prof Gilligan wackily destroys all h becomes Gilligan's Radioacti1 test. Wide World of Sports: Mac The International Morris Dane Network Gods. Star Trek: Kirk and crew b that designers of the Enterpi Spock locks himself in his cabii neck pinch to a female compar with another ship because Suit Comedians Sag< i younger days and poking fun at various American institutions, a such as the phone company. Raker y talked of his participation in the e Ron Howard Look Alike Contest, in n wnicn nrst prize was dinner witn d Aunt Bee." Raker also talked 5- about his youth when he was a d bedwetter and had to "sleep in a t- bed with rain gutters on the side." e Raker did his share of im)f pressions including Walter Brennan and Jimmy Carter. But d he showed his poise as a performer t, when one of the audience got up to e, leave and knocked a chair over. >r "That's okay," Raker quipped. "I ie remember my first beer too." ie THE NEXT performer, Bob g, Saget, came on stage armed with a to guitar. Saget's zaniness was immediately apparent as he began a talking a little too affectionately nt about his road crew and how he lv h pH pnmprn*: nr> in hie hnHrnnm of to record strange actions that went nfr.. I ^n v vl of those wonderful little scenarios for thev are not totally accurate, but I'm hem this way, just once. to help a little girl across the street, ilarm fire, land a disabled 747 on the ave the world from destruction by neteor. Then, after lunch ... nany subdues arch-enemy Wo Fat by diet. Once again he manages to solve 'im, Danno." Cooper amputates his own leg to the >up performs the classics "Doo Wah and all-time favorite "Gag Choke essor finally makes it with Ginger, ope of rescue again. Gilligan's Island ve Hotbed after U.S. Army A-Bomb kerel Throwing from Saskatchewan, :ing Championships, and Battle of the ecome despondent when they realize *ise neglected to plan for restrooms. n after accidentally applying a Vulcan tion. The Enterprise suffers a collision i ca n't find the horn in time. See LEFT HAND, page 6 L J1 ! I | ^ ^H;:-:Bt SPf R|^8^PS^^ ^8 il et, DeHart and Raker . . . "The on there. Saget then launched into < a barrage of song parodies such as l "Fillines ? all mv teeth have fillings" and a poke at Steve j Miller's hit called "I Got A Rock In I Me Baby." ] After almost every song Saget meekly apologized for his frequent < vulgarity. He ended his act with a tribute to this city called "Oh Columbia" in which he sang, among other things, "I never will find roaches as big as these here that crawl on the ground." mtin mvimrv i T TA ?TT- i i nr, ininu aci, jcii Lfenari featured good impressions. DeHart offered impressions of Hunphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Dustin Hoffman, and Clint Eastwood. He also presented a hilarious "Celebrity Press Conference" which featured his version of the voices of Jimmy Carter, Art n t 1- n n u r - barney, jacK Denny, neuu ruxx and Jack Nicholson, among others. Later, each comic spoke of the | ST E? While Receive SIT (Limil COLUB i 1910 T A Open Monday Teleph UHHHmi best comedy comes naturall Comedy Store as their haven. All three had worked various clubs in New York and Philadelphia before going to Los Angeles. Each has been with the Comedy Store for a little over a month. It was there they were first given a chance tc display their talents by Comedj Store owner Mitzi Shore and havf been performing there for a little more than a month. "THERE ARE four Corned) Stores in Los Angeles," Saget said "Amateur night is each Monday night, and potential regulars car go and sign up to do five minutes worth of material. Once you get 01 as a regular, you're on your way t< television." Raker said the college tour i important to the three comedians "A steady college tour is in valuable. We're laying down th ground floor, we hope schools wil like us and rebook us for next year Some colleges have already don that." IDEM urn Mon< Helping k W K1 i\l<\ tin f pt"l UIIIUU : two donations pe; 1BIAP1 ^niTrmT jjjjii 1 Jiii lYLOR I j thru Friday 9:00 lone: 254-6684or 21 y " Jim Pastorlcfc ? OAMECOCK Each comedian said he views his i comic career as a stepping stone to ! other fields. Raker has written a ; script for a "Rhoda" show and has i done voiceovers for several ? commercials. Saget has made ) several films and is working on a r documentary. "Standup comedy is i a way to get into other areas," : DeHart, who has his aim on acting, said. "Television show casters see r you at the Comedy Store and get to watch you perform. I could always 'j make a good living as an actor. But j as a comedian, you can do so many 5 things ar. actor can't." j ALL THREE comedians agreed that their comedy comes naturally. s "It's impossible to sit down and , say, 'I'm going to write a joke'," Raker said. If you have a comedy e mind, it will work. But if you try 11 too hard or are nervous, it won't." . Sacet added, "The best material e comes naturally." I do a certain See COMEDIANS, page 6 :s, ] ev ~ WJ Others Ha donation r week) r. A KM A r STREET a.m. -6:00 p.m.