This week Jerry Rocha features with headliner Andres Fernandez at the Rivercenter Comedy Club. Jerry is from Texas, but now resides in LA and is quickly gaining notoriety with a fast paced, edgy act.
If you could do battle with any Jazz Crooner, who would it be? JR: “What do I win?”
SAR: “Glory. Its gladiator rules, baby. You’re doing it for pride.”
JR : “Ella Fitzgerald. I just
I just think I could tear her apart. I would kill her.
SAR: “Ella, really? Brave choice.”
JR: “Yeah, I don’t know. When she’s great she’s great, but other times she’s just terrible.”
(Pauses for thought.)
JR: “Maybe Billie Holliday. She’d probably fall asleep during, start nodding off, and I could finish her quickly. She wouldn’t even remember it.”
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Show times are 8:30 and 10:45 Friday/Saturday, 8:30 Sunday. Rivercenter Comedy Club, 849 East Commerce Street. (210) 229-1420. $15
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2011.