Bob Saget and Your Comments!

This is not the Bob Saget you've seen on Full House, nor is this the Bob Saget you see on America's Funniest. Yes, it's the same guy, but the comedy is not the same. That said he's selling out college larger than ours, U Conn for instance sold out a 2,500 seat room with him last September, UMass Amherst sold a 4000 seat room with him and Bates did a 1900 seat room, he also did Canisus earlier this year.

Hes also directed the movie Dirty Work with Norm MacDonald.

In terms of his stand up comedy it's dirty, this won't be a child friendly show. We'll be advertising it as at least 17 and over. For some clips from his live shows check out youtube.

In response to the Jolt Guest Name post at 2:22 pm:

"SUNY Potsdam is trying to do a comedy show (Lewis Black). Rather than possibly compete for their attendance, the board felt it would be better to follow the data and cover a different market."

Why did they choose Saget over Flogging then?

Yes, Potsdam is also doing comedy. Yes, we said earlier in the year that we would try to pursue music so as to reach a different part of the market. However that was a few months ago, and consequently things have changed. The top musical choice out of the voting was Breaking Benjamin, however they are not working out for us. We ran two Jolt polls, one before break and the one that started on Saturday. These two polls pitted the second musical choice against the first and second comedy options respectively and showed no real favor either way. In light of that we were forced to reconsider our original position.

We decided that a comedian would probably have wider appeal than a punk show, and so that's the direction we're heading in.

In response to the Jolt Guest Name at 2:15 pm:

a one act show? Is he that expensive? We got lewis black, stephen lynch, and some guy i don't know but was good enough, for presumably the same price. if he thinks he is just as good as those three combined, then I don't want to see him anymore.

Yes, he is really that expensive. Lewis/Steven was an amazing deal, we caught them at just the right moment -- before they got huge. Lewis is now $50K by himself and Steven is now $30K. We paid $30K for both of them. Sadly that's not something that's likely to happen again. As to why we're pursuing him, that's pretty simple, he came out second in terms of voting for comedians.

Using the information you provided us through surveys, polls and posting both in the blog and on the jolt we're doing our best to give you the show you want.