From balloon-request@cvs.rochester.edu  Wed Feb 14 19:17:46 1996
	id AA22814; Wed, 14 Feb 96 19:13:28 EST
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:13:11 -0500
From: Cheley101@aol.com
Message-Id: <960214191303_322364156@mail04.mail.aol.com>
To: roya@bsadpo.emba.uvm.edu
Cc: balloon@cvs.rochester.edu
Subject: Comedy Clubs

Bruce writes:
>Working in comedy clubs I found that a balloon act is no good unless you
also
>do COMEDY. That's what the club is for.

I have a very good friend, S. Frank Stringham, who has a fantastic "clean"
comedy act using balloons.  He's actually a
singer/entertainer/comedian/balloon master (or, as S. would say, a balloon
god if you're dyslexic :0} ) Anyway, here's an example of what he does here
in Vegas:  he's singing "Live and Let Die" while making some purple balloon
shape.  By the last chorus, he has completed a great "Barney" creation just
in time for the words "Live and Let Die" where he proceeds to rip Barney
apart and step on it and dismember it.  It goes over really well with the
adults!

Just thought I'd give you an example.  I'm not telling you this so you can
copy it (please don't, he'd kill me) but just to give you an idea. OK? 

Michele