looked back,” recalled Bradley.
“He said, ‘you’re going to eat it’
but he wasn’t being mean, he
meant you’re going to eat it, so
go do it, eat it, and accept it. If
you’re really one of us, you’re going to come back every night.”
Opening a comedy club in today’s world is anything but a
sure bet. With so much comedy
available for free on the Internet and shown on cable tv, clubs
need to sell the live experience.
Bradley is hoping to offer some-
thing that you can’t get from the
casinos, but he knows being located in the city itself can either
be a curse or a blessing. He’s
hoping it’s the latter.
“How long will it last?” Bradley
wondered. “Art has never been
blessed with that timeline. How
important is it? I watched Rodney Dangerfield when I was 11
years old and became his friend.
He told me to open a club here
someday. He said the town is
a piece of shit, but they need
Watch Michelle Tomko at Butch Bradley’s Comedy Hideaway
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