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About last night’s “roast” of legendary KY102 personality Max Floyd at Larry Sells new Conspiracy…

As roasts go it was something of a snoozer – too many warm and fuzzies – not enough cutting edge.

“It wasn’t really a roast and there was nobody that was funny,” says roaster Craig Glazer of Stanford’s. “A lot of it was people talking about their own lives in radio as it related to Max – they didn’t understand the concept of a roast.”

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Even in Kansas City, increasing fame comes at a cost.

Craig Glazer is currently on a roll. His comedy club Stanford & Sons at the Legends is going strong and an auto-biography based on his life is being turned into a movie. An impresario of the local entertainment scene couldn’t ask for more except for someone to share it with, and that’s where things get sketchy for Glazer.

While fame and money are elusive for any Kansas City area resident, steady relationships are increasingly tougher to maintain. In that context, I’m sad to report that Craig Glazer is no longer dating the gal so many Kansas City media watchers know as “Black Barbie,” a smoking hot local entertainer named Monique Hall.

Here’s a bit of the backstory on their relationship:
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The truth is fairly simple: Tiger Woods will be bigger and richer than ever before – no doubt about it…

His recent mishap only makes him “human” and a whole lot more interesting. Sponsors will be lined up as they were before as soon as he is back on the tour and winning. His first tournament will be nearly as big as a Super Bowl…with all eyes, the media and talk radio all over Woods that week. Viewing audiences will set a PGA record. You don’t just flush the world’s No. 1 athlete of the decade (and he is) down the tubes.

Woods is not a criminal, he broke a moral rule that many men – fair or not – break at some point in their marriages. And here’s a little secret; so do many women. He cheated on his wife, so did John Kennedy, Brad Pitt, Bill Clinton, most rock stars, etc. That didn’t seem to hurt them in the long run, did it?

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There may be a snowball’s chance in Hades that KU football coach Mark Mangino will return next year…

But if there is, Joe-College.com owner Larry Sinks and local sports-a-holic Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons comedy club don’t see it. Not even close, the two agree.

“Looks like he’s gone, oh yeah,” Sinks says. “He choked a player last week in practice – some linebacker named Arist Wright – that’s what I was told. I got it from a pretty reliable source and I’m pretty confident in my source.”

When Sinks isn’t coming up with kickass T-shirts like “Our Coach is Phat” and “Muck Fizzou” or defending himself against seven-figure lawsuits by KU athletics honcho Lew Perkins, he keeps a close ear to the ground in Lawrence on all things KU.

“Oh yeah, the KU football players come in all the time and the player’s parents come in all the time,” Sinks says. “All I know is that I was talking to some of the players and they were telling me they just don’t get along with Mangino – that he is a hot head and a lot of the players don’t like him anymore. And they have just had enough of his views.”

Glazer has another take on Mangino’s likely demise… Continue reading

It just sounds fishy…

Why build a spanking new, state of the art comedy club, close it just four years later and move a couple of inches away into another space. That’s competing comedy club owner Craig Glazer’s question.

“Thank you for calling the Improv comedy club and dinner theater,” the club’s messaging system says. “We are currently closed and plan to reopen in mid January. Bigger and better things to come. Thank you for calling.”

The Improv’s Web site however offers up a different timetable: ”Please be on the look out for us in February 2010.”

Glazer’s take on the Improv’s reopening?

“As far as it reopening in January, I find that highly unlikley,” he says. Continue reading

Stanford’s comedy club king Craig Glazer could be sitting on a gold mine…

In 1993 he and another investor bought the rights to the 1990 boxing documentary “Champions Forever” from his partners with whom he had produced the movie for a measly 25 grand.

Glazer negotiated the rights purchase with Ed Masry, the deceased former attorney and Thousand Oaks, California mayor of Erin Brockovich fame.

The movie had done well at theaters but more or less had tapped out. Still Glazer felt it had long-term value in video and television, and it’s provided him a tidy annual income since.

Glazer says he got involved in the project after befriending a fellow convict in the late 1980s who was in the slammer allegedly for importing the designer drug ecstasy. The dude is listed as Tom Bellagio in the movie credits of Glazer’s just-released DVD (“Champions Forever The Definitive Edition -Muhammad Ali the Lost Interviews).

But that’s not his real name, Glazer says. Continue reading

There’s a good chance that any extended stay in Kansas City will present the opportunity to check out one of many local improv comedy groups.

My only advice: STAY AWAY!!!

After the jump there’s a bit of news about new online local improv comedy developments but I thought it was worth remembering: My hatred of local improv comedy stems from a couple of years ago when I checked out one of them still doing Clinton jokes and Scottish accents. Those cretins took me for $37, and were probably the impetus for a breakup with a broad I had yet to bang, SOOOOO I’m obviously one of the foremost experts on local improv (or at least its criticism) in the KC area. More importantly, I consider myself an authority on broken dreams in this cowtown, and I can say without question that there is nothing more unfunny than a liberal arts major on stage bravely undertaking a last ditch effort to avoid real work.

Of course there are exceptions to this rule (not really), but I can note with a great deal of confidence that every comedy improv group in Kansas City is comprised of people who are completely untalented and unfunny. Continue reading

About that front page cover photo of Grandma Lee on today’s FYI section cover…

Turns out the 70-something funny grrrl was no stranger to Kansas City audiences long before her current star turn on the hit reality show America’s Got Talent.”

“Last year she played here three different times and co-starred,” says Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons comedy club. “And I took her to the radio stations because she was a curiousity. Normally I wouldn’t take the co-star to radio, but I took her because she’s a senior citizen and part of her schtick is, I’m a senior citizen but I still get laid.” Continue reading

About that water fight between the Woodside Health & Tennis club’s go-go summer Saturday meet market action and the Power & Light District’s new rooftop pool, The Jones....

One of Woodside’s most loyal party people - Stanford & Son’s Craig Glazer – finally made it downtown to check out the newcomer up close and personal. And the verdict is…”

“The pool is clearly built for one reason,” Glazer says of The Jones. “To meet hotties – hotties or I want to get a great tan in a downtown atmosphere. The impressive thing about The Jones is the area around it is massive. You could easily put 500 to 600 people up there.”

That from the dude who liked Woodside’s smoking singles scene to that of a Playboy Mansion bash… Continue reading

Make way for the haters…

It’s like clockwork; write something, anything online about Stanford & Sons comedy club kingpin Craig Glazer and out come the boo-birds – the, uh, anonymous boo-birds. This news ought to really rile ‘em.

It comes via today’s Hollywood Reporter.

“Veteran scribe Dan Gordon has been anointed to pen ‘The King of Sting,’ ” the Reporterreports. “The writer behind ‘The Hurricane’ and ‘Wyatt Earp’ has signed to write the screenplay for the drama about the life of con man Craig Glazer. Continue reading

Are you ready for some hip-hop?

That’s a question Overland Park police may soon be asking in the wake of the Famous Johnnys comedy club at Hooters Plaza adding a dance component to its late night entertainment mix.

In recent weeks Club Eyce, as it is called, has been kicking it hip-hop style at the South Overland Park nightspot.

“We’ve definitely noticed the difference in our weekend crowd and a lot more traffic” since Club Eyce opened, says Hooters Girl Ashley Dominick.

As in urban?

Yes, definitely,” she says. “To put it bluntly. But there haven’t been any problems so far, but they haven’t been doing it very long at all.” Continue reading

Think of it as an R-rated heat wave…

That’s one eyewitness perspective from this year’s Rockfest heavy metal meltdown at Liberty Memorial.

“Rockfest, baby – 2009,” Stanford’s main man Craig Glazer says of the blessed event. “Yeah, today was probably the warmest day of the year and that’s good news and bad news. The good news is the weather brought out a lot more people – or maybe it just seemed like it – because there was a lot more skin. I mean, you wake up and it’s already 80 and you know it’s going to hit 90 and you know you’re going to get a good tan and you know that girls tops are coming off – and you know there are more than ever.”

The bad news: when that heat met sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll it was Katy bar the door.

“I think what was wild was all the young people that underestimated that kind of heat,” Glazer says. “I saw a girl in the VIP tent near me literally pass out from the heat and start flopping around and her friend was pouring water on her. There were a lot of ambulances coming in and out of there all day taking people to the hospital because of the heat and everybody was talking about it.”

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It was like old home week backstage at the Midland friday night when Mike Epps roared into the dressing room and clapped a highly animated bear hug on his old pal Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons comedy club…

Epps new movie “Next Day Air,” a comedy about a bungled drug drop debuted that day and the comic was definitely up for the Gates Bar-B-Q chicken wings backstage and the packed house that awaited.

Epps connection to Glazer dates back to the many standup shows he did at the former Westport Stanford’s.

There’s more…

“Mike was in prison back in ther late 70s or early 80s, I think,” Glazer says. “He told me about it when he first played Stanford’s around 1997. He was already one of the top three or four black comics then. he was up there with D.L. Hughley, Chris Rock and Damon Wayans.”

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Will thong-wearing hotties corner the market on the Power & Light District’s next gargantuan dress code controversy?

Word recently leaked by Tony’s Kansas City of an outdoor, rooftop pool atop the hoity-toity new Cosentino’s Downtown Market raises that and a number of questions.

Rafael Architects Web site describes the pool thusly:

So are thongs allowed at Woodside’s pool party wildings?

“I’ve seen them, I don’t know what the rules are, but I’ve brought girls there wearing Rio de Janeiro bathing suits,” says Woodside member and pool party habitue Craig Glazer. “They’re basically thongs with the G-string across the back – kind of a rope – the big attraction from behind is you basically see the entire derriere. Woodside doesn’t encourage thongs but they’re allowed.”

Uh, stay tuned.

Not long ago hick humorist Larry the Cable Guy was packing places like Kemper Arena…

No mas.

Still what looks to be a double sellout of the new Midland Theater by the cable dude is nothing to sneer at. Equally, if not more impressive, is cetacean-esque comic Ralphie May’s feat of selling out his Saturday shows at Stanford & Sons at the Legends, while going head-to-head with Larry’s Midland sellouts.

Columnist insert: a few seats remain for tonight’s and Sunday’s Ralphie shows at 913 400-7500.

I digress…

The skinny on May: “The cool thing is on May 5th his new DVD Austin-Tatious comes out and it’s already gone platinum on presales,” says Stanford’s main man Craig Glazer. “That means it’s sold 100,000 copies or more.”

On the personal front, “Ralphie had a baby and while at one time he weighed nearly 700 pounds, he’s lost nearly 300 pounds,” Glazer says.

Uh, cuz of the baby?

“No, over the years he was able to do it by originally being on the Celebrity Fit Club and he had a trainer for that show who told him that he’d lost more weight than anybody he’d ever seen,” Glazer says. “He did it by diet, working out – like weight lifting and doing 1,000 sit-ups a day and several hundred pushups.”

Come on, a 600 pound plus dude doing several hundred actual pushups?

“I’m telling you what Ralphie said, I’m not telling you that it’s true,” Glazer says. “And he lost so much weight so quickly it was actually a health hazard.”

How Glazer transported the Big R back in the day: “When he was 600 plus we started in a limo but it was too uncomfortable, so we had to switch to a Cadillac Escalade.  Now because he’s lost all that weight he’s in a Lincoln Town Car – that 300 pounds really helps. Now it’s like driving around an NFL lineman instead of King Kong.”