The Dirty Joke Show is a new show at the Hooters. I think it is the most brilliant concept in the history of stand up comedy. I have been to a large number of comedy clubs here and across the country. The program is the same at all of them. Some local comes out as an emcee and warms up the crowd. A feature comedian or two come out for short skits. Then the headliner does his set. This show does it a little different.

The stage is set up like the back of the building behind a bar. There are empty booze bottles, trash, old beer kegs, a dumpster, etc. A short video is used for a warm up and sets up the atmosphere that it is the back alley behind comedy club just as the show ends. Three comedians come out in the alley and start talking about the set they just did. They just hang out, drink booze, have a smoke and tell jokes to each other. They are wearing lapel mics, so they don't have to walk up front and center and speak into a mic. It's really casual as they talk to each other instead of to an audience. It's set up where one or more comedians could drop by and hang out and tell jokes with them or tell a few and leave.

This particular show is about dirty jokes, so yes, the jokes are dirty. But it could be done with any genre of jokes, or better yet, no specific genre. I REALLY like this format. It takes pressure off of the comedian to induce a laugh, and it takes the pressure off of the audience to laugh or applaud on cue. I'm sure some parts are scripted, but it is easy to tell that most all of it is ad lib. And since the comedians are focused on each other instead of the audience, they really are working off each other.

Since the show is at Hooters it doesn't have favorable odds of surviving very long. I do recommend it though for someone that wants a comedy show at 11pm with dirty jokes. The show lasted a little over an hour. Hooters was giving out coupons in the gift shop in back of the casino to see the show for $12.50 including one drink. I would guess that street price would be about $25.