Craig Glazer Talks The Kansas City Comedy Weekend With Tim Meadows!!!

TKC Note: Right now our pal Craig Glazer shares the details of his weekend and comedy legends recounting playing Kansas City at his place . . . Check it:

Saturday Night Live’s Tim Meadows at Stanfords

First of all, thank you Kansas City for voting Stanford and Sons the best Comedy Club in the metro. We were pleased to see that Stanfords was first and the Improv second in The Pitch Weekly’s ‘Best of KC’ review. We appreciate your continued support.

This weekend, Stanfords is proud to announce the appearance of long-time ‘SNL’ alumnus, Tim Meadows. Tim is another one of the decade plus cast members who will make his first appearance in our city this weekend. Over the years, we have introduced many of the bigger names from Saturday Night Live to our city including Kevin Nealon, Darrell Hammond, Chris Kattan, Rob Schneider, Jeff Richards, Victoria Jackson and Rich Hall just to name a few. Yes, all these people made their first appearance in this area at Stanford & Sons. A couple of odd things happened: Kevin Nealon was the first big star that helped re-open the Westport location in 1995 when my brother Jeff and I took over. To this day, when I run into Kevin, he’s quick to remind me he did more media for that appearance for Stanfords in two days than he has done for anything else.

“Glazer, you had me do like eight radio shows, two television interviews and then took me to Royals Stadium where I threw out the first pitch before a Yankees game, then back on Sunday to Arrowhead to do the lineup car on the Jumbotron for a Chiefs game that fall,’ Nealon said. I reply, ‘Hey Kevin, I want to make sure we sold out…and we did.’

Then there was the strange case of Darrell Hammond, the main voice impressionist on the show for more than a decade. Hammond was contracted to play Westport for a week, which he did, then he was supposed to go to Chicago for a corporate gig but decided he didn’t want to leave Kansas City. He told me he was in love with Stanfords and our town. In fact, he did the next week at the Overland Park Stanfords for free. He wrote about this experience in his recent autobiography.

Tim Meadows is best known for his character ‘The Ladies Man’, not only was it his most famous vehicle on SNL, but it was turned into a hit motion picture starring Tim. Over the years, Tim has appeared in many other films and is now in the current hit ‘Grown Ups 2’. Tim is also well known for his impressions and bits on everyone from OJ Simpson to Sammie Davis, Jr. Tim’s talent is immense, come see it this weekend at Stanfords, he is currently touring with Jon Lovitz at theaters on the East Coast. Coming in November, Tom Arnold and Josh Wolf.
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