{"id":9285,"date":"2020-06-22T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:47:18","slug":"comedy-and-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/22\/comedy-and-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy and Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the coronavirus?&nbsp; While I continue to wear a mask wherever I go, I see more and more people eschewing the confining <em>accoutrement<\/em> and simply throwing the wind into the caution.&nbsp; I was under the impression that the first entertainment venues considering re-opening were cinemas (as if I\u2019d risk life and limb to see the upcoming <strong>Russell Crowe <\/strong>release).&nbsp; Then I read of <strong>DL Hughley <\/strong>collapsing onstage.&nbsp; You may ask \u2013 where on God\u2019s green earth is a comedy club open to a live audience?&nbsp; In Nashville, Tennessee (they\u2019ve apparently been open since May 28<sup>th<\/sup>).&nbsp; Before I go on, may I say that I mean no disrespect to anyone \u2013 but pandemic or no pandemic, you could not pay me to leave my house to see DL Hughley.&nbsp; During his SECOND show of the evening (he also did two shows the previous night), Hughley paused, leaned on his stool, and collapsed onto the floor.&nbsp; The capacity audience at <strong><em>Zanies <\/em><\/strong>in Nashville was shocked.&nbsp; That continued the following day when they learned that Hughley \u2013 who had only hours before been spewing verbal barbs in their general direction \u2013 had also been spewing corona-laden saliva!<\/p>\n<p>Hughley\u2019s set was part of the <strong><em>Juneteenth Social Awareness-Thon<\/em><\/strong>, which also featured <strong>Snoop Dogg<\/strong>, <strong>Anthony Anderson<\/strong>, and others performing from their respective locales.&nbsp; It was sponsored by <em>Master Growers <\/em><em>CBD<\/em> and was a fundraiser for their <em>Clean Hands for All<\/em> campaign to provide 1.5 million bottles of hand sanitizer to people in inner cities.&nbsp; If Nashville wasn\u2019t on that list before, it is now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the coronavirus?&nbsp; While I continue to wear a mask wherever I go, I see more and more people eschewing the confining accoutrement and simply throwing the wind into the caution.&nbsp; I was under the impression that the first entertainment venues considering re-opening were cinemas (as if I\u2019d risk life and limb to see the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}