Moore Brewing to go full funny Friday
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Comic Michael Glatzmaier will perform two shows Friday at Moore Brewing Company in Moses Lake. Glatzmaier creates songs on the spot based on suggestions from the audience, meaning there’s no way to predict what he’ll come up with.
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MOSES LAKE — A good laugh can be found in the strangest of places. And like a dog sniffing out a dropped piece of steak, Michael Glatzmaier knows exactly where to look.
“Right before the show, people get to write suggestions on a piece of paper,” said Glatzmaier, who will perform twice Friday at Moore Brewing Company in Moses Lake. “Then throughout the show I pull those slips of paper out of a bucket — I don’t know what’s on them — and then I have to try to create an improvised comedy song on the spot based off those suggestions.”
Because no two audiences are the same, those prompts are completely unpredictable, he said. One slip of paper he received at a show said simply “Holey cheese.” Another read “Do you ever think about the vastness of space and how we’ll never live long enough to explore it and see aliens?”
“I did a whole song about taking two different hamburgers and making a grilled cheese sandwich out of it,” he said. “And then I had another song called ‘Parkour.’ And that parkour song ended up turning into a love song for somebody in the audience, where I was asking him if he would parkour with me.”
“The whole evening is very organic,” said Moore Brewing co-owner Lorie Moore. “No two shows can ever be the same, because you're never going to have the same exact audience.”
No audience has ever stumped him, Glatzmaier said.
The seeds of the show were planted when Glatzmaier was about 8, he said, and his father taught him to play guitar and banjo.
“I had a learning disability as a child, and I couldn't memorize anything,” Glatzmaier said. “So when he would try to teach me how to play songs, I couldn't memorize them. So I would learn the chords from muscle memory and then I would just make up my own songs. I'd sit on this doorstep and sing about people walking by.”
Glatzmaier shared a bill at Moore Brewing with another comedian in November, Moore said.
“It was (a customer named Mike’s) birthday and so they brought a huge table of friends, and they just gave him the raspberries all night,” she said. “Mike and the whole birthday table played very well along … the whole thing just kind of went everywhere, and then it kept circling back around to the birthday boy.”
Glatzmaier grew up in Spokane, he said, and has been traveling full-time as a comedian for seven years. One of his first shows was in Moses Lake and he has a soft spot for the area, he said. He’ll be joined by two other comedians, he said: Chris Jessop and Josh Teaford, who will do roughly 10-minute sets before Glatzmaier’s hour-long show.
“It's fun because they're both different styles of comic,” he said. “I don't know what material they're fully going to be doing at this show, but Josh is your typical Northwest laid-back kind of guy … and then Chris, he's a very high-energy, very engaging comic. So it's nice to have them as a duo, because it'll kind of give you a mix.”
There were still a few tickets available for the earlier show Friday, Moore said, but they sold so fast she and Glatzmaier decided to add a second show. The first will begin at 6 p.m., and the second at 8:30 p.m. The venue will be cleared between shows, Moore said, but patrons who choose to buy tickets for both will still get two completely different performances.
“What better way to spend a Valentine's night?” Moore asked. “I mean, when you've dated someone for a couple of years, sometimes there's that stress and ‘Is this the time? Am I going to get proposed to?’ This is just a super light-hearted way to have fun.”
Michael Glatzmaier and friends
6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 14
Moore Brewing Company
302 W. Broadway Ave., Moses Lake
Tickets $20
First show: https://bit.ly/MBCComedy214-6p
Second show: https://bit.ly/MBCComedy214-830p
Comedian Chris Jessop of Spokane will be one of two openers for Michael Glatzmaier at Moore Brewing on Friday. The event is a hilarious way for couples to enjoy a low-stress Valentine’s Day, brewery owner Lorie Moore said.
Josh Teaford will join Chris Jessop and Michael Glatzmaier at Moore Brewing on Friday. His brand of comedy plays off well against Jessop’s more high-energy set, Glatzmaier said.ARTICLES BY JOEL MARTIN
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