{"id":52,"date":"2008-03-13T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:24:33","slug":"aww-you-so-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Aww&#8230; You So Entertaining!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to the Gallery Lounge on campus at UBC tonight to checkout the karaoke contest that was supposed to be going on (yeah, yeah, I know). I was surprised to see how sparsely attended it was, so I found a book and put in Louis Armstrong&#8217;s &#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221;, which I do in a pretty decent croaky impression. It went over pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>As the night slowly wore on, it was pretty clear not too many people were interested in singing, so I went up and asked how many songs were left. They said there was one opening left, so I pounced on it and signed myself up for &#8220;The Bad Touch&#8221; by The Bloodhound Gang. This song is somewhat edgy, slightly rude, and I have it memorized. I also have a little outrageous dance\/act-out which is rather of amusing to watch.<\/p>\n<p>I did it, and it went over pretty well too. Immediately following, the crowd voted for &#8220;Best Singer&#8221; and &#8220;Most Entertaining&#8221;. I thought I might actually have a chance since I was fresh in people&#8217;s minds. Sure enough, I was voted &#8220;Most Entertaining&#8221;, so they called me up to congratulate me.<\/p>\n<p>I have never advanced in any comedy contest after over three years of doing stand-up. Yet here I won. At least I&#8217;m entertaining compared to a layman.<\/p>\n<p>The DJ asked me to do my Louis Armstrong impression, so I plugged my web site in the low throaty voice. If that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re here now, well&#8230; hi. Why not sign up to be my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Richard-Kiss\/7419364387\">Facebook fan<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to the Gallery Lounge on campus at UBC tonight to checkout the karaoke contest that was supposed to be going on (yeah, yeah, I know). I was surprised to see how sparsely attended it was, so I found a book and put in Louis Armstrong&#8217;s &#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221;, which I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=52\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aww&#8230; You So Entertaining!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}