Dethroned, you guys!

Kate and I went down to Comedy Bar on Friday night to check out the fifth edition of Gong the Show. As I mentioned that morning, my brother was shooting for a five-time championship in what had been dubbed a “Defeat Jon Blair” showcase.

In the bitter end, Jon Blair was indeed defeated. He lost to Greg Cochrane, a very funny fellow who’s been threatening to dethrone him for a couple of months at least. And damned if the dude didn’t earn it; his anti-Jon PSA, bang-on impression of the Francophone Beatles, and unbelievably enduring “Cuban guitar teacher” sketch were extraordinarily tough to beat.

Which isn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy my brother’s first round performance as “Shitty the Riddler.” Or his second round appearance as an octopus who shot at the Beatles from his garden in the shade, killing the one with the glasses and shouting “People are going to jerk off about that for twenty years!” Or the final round, in which he came out wearing a sheet and did absolutely nothing, which may or may not have been a dive, come to think of it.

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