rant · moment 10 of 18
Bombing at the Stardome in Hoover, Alabama
from 161 - The Los Angeles Liars · #161
5 min
Tim recounts a rough gig at the Stardome comedy club in Hoover, Alabama, where jokes about brunch and gentrifying tech workers didn't land with the older, country crowd, plus riffing on his shabby Courtyard Marriott and asking why 'room service' requires a lobby trip.
- Tim performed at the Stardome comedy club in Huntsville, Alabama, describing it as a rough and legendary room where many comics struggle.
- The audience was a mix of elderly Black people and white evangelicals from rural Alabama—not the typical Black room Tim is used to playing.
- His material about brunch didn't land because Hoover, Alabama doesn't have brunch culture; they have buffets instead.
- Tim's jokes about TAC moving into cities failed because TAC hasn't reached Hoover yet—the frame of reference doesn't work for that audience.
- He stays in Courtyard Marriotts while traveling, hotels that hide structural damage with sand-textured paint on the walls.
- Looking up at a popcorn ceiling in a shitty hotel, you wonder how many people's lives have played out in that exact bed—affairs, violence, desperation.
- After the Stardome gig, Tim asked room service why he had to go to the lobby to pick up his beer, and the staff admitted no one was available to deliver it.
- Tim suggested to the hotel clerk that everyone checked in is already there, so they could lock the doors and call it a night.
- Only four to seven of Tim's fans showed up in Hoover, Alabama, and they looked terrified.
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