Hilarious. First watch this little girl telling her parents what she saw…









Now check out what The Gregory Brothers (SchmoYOho) did with it (they’re the same ones that did Auto Tune the News and Double Rainbow Song). This is awesome.

You may have noticed that we scroll brief quotes that people have said about the show on the top right corner of the new http://michaelkentlive.com. So that the website doesn’t stay stagnant, I’m asking you to send me NEW quotes of what YOU thought of the show and I’ll be sending FREE posters out to the top five entries!







Enter below your thoughts on the show. The more original, funny, and otherwise memorable the quote is, the better. But it has to be truthful. In other words, if you say “Michael’s show made me poop my pants!” you should be ready to provide proof (gross)! That’s it! Get creative with it and have fun. Just try to be brief. I’ll be taking the top five submissions and letting you know if you won so I can arrange to send you a free poster. This is perfect for those of you who were too late to take advantage of my generosity day earlier this month when I sent out some free posters.

Thanks to Ione at Viterbo for taking so many photos of the show!

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

Show for 300-400 in La Crosse, WI at Viterbo University – home of the Viterbo V-Hawks (what?).



Me: Name a four-legged animal.
Her: Bird!
Audience: ha!



45 minutes later:

Me: What is your school’s mascot here?
Them: V-Hawk!
Me: What the hell is a V-hawk.
Hilarious audience member: It’s a four-legged bird!







LOVED IT. There’s been a real sense of spontaneity and variety in these last few shows that really makes me enjoy myself onstage. On top of that, the last couple shows have been fun simply due to outstanding facilities, students and production staff.



Two nights ago in Manchester, NH – the awesome freshman class at St. Anselm roared through the whole show. It was also nice of my agent, Laura (based in Manchester) to bring a dozen friends to the show to see me.



I’m now finding myself with an off day tomorrow – then two more days at home before I hit the road again. Very tired – but excited about the show right now.



peace, love and four-legged vhawks,
MK

Here are some recent photos from the tour!

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

The last week has been full of some beautiful views of the Midwest. I snapped this photo while driving through Western Ohio into Indiana on Tuesday.







Driving through the back country really makes me want it to be fall already. It’s almost time for College Football and beautiful orange colors on the trees during drives through New England. Fall is my favorite season. It looks like I might even be home for Halloween this year. I haven’t been home for Halloween in years.



I’ve been working hard on the road, and have had nothing but good shows so far. 3 out of the first five shows have resulted in standing ovations, a few new things are working well here and there (the new opening bit is working well) and I’m just getting started. I’d love to have a few more pictures to show you, but I left my digital camera back in Missouri, so they’re shipping it back for me. The picture above was taken with my iPhone 4 and edited with the Camera Bag App Not bad at all!



Last night’s show at Indiana University Kokomo was fun. It was a 6pm show, which is early, but its mainly a non-traditional commuter campus, so that’s a difficult time to try to get folks to come. Attendance suffered due to the nature of the college and the way their programming works, but it allowed me to do a different style of show. Half the show was done off-mic and I was able to throw in some close-up magic into the show that I normally don’t do. I also had the opportunity to talk back and forth with the 35-40 audience members a little more casually during the show. As one of the students pointed out, it’s about quality, not quantity!

Tonight I’ll be at Indiana University Southeast. I was here earlier this year and I’m looking forward to another good crowd. I think tonight will be a bit larger than last time. My good buddy and professional wrestler, U-Gene, will get to come to the show and hang out afterward – which is always a good time. I met U-Gene in Korea when we were both touring there.



Tomorrow I drive back to Ohio to perform near home at Ohio Wesleyan University! I get to sleep in my own bed, so that will be nice. But then it’s off to the east coast in the morning after that!



I love the comments and the Facebook Likes and Retweets, so keep them coming – I really appreciate all of the support!



peace, love and beautiful summer drives through the country,
MK

For those of you who don’t know the Turd Rainbow Story, watch this video sometime. While we’re on the subject of scatalogical humor, something pretty funny happened in the show tonight at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH.



I do a trick in which I ask the audience to give me a suggestion of something they might say if they saw the most amazing thing in the world. The suggestion I got was “fountain.” While it made no sense, I decided to go with the spirit of improv and use it. The idea is that the audience yells the word when a certain action happens onstage. We do that again and assign a second action to a second suggestion. The second suggestion tonight was the word “Sh*t.” Later in the routine, when the two actions are happening back to back, the entire audience found themselves chanting “Sh*t Fountain, Sh*t Fountain, Sh*t Fountain!” I couldn’t keep it together. Definitely one for the books.



Also, a google image search provides this picture. I just now laughed for five more minutes.







peace love and poop jokes,
MK



I love BGSU! Always a great audience.

I started the fall tour on Saturday in Springfield, MO performing at Missouri State University’s “Bear Bash,” which sounds kinda like a promotions night at a gay bar, but instead is an AWESOME event put on by Missouri State’s student activities. They had bands, DJs, games, wacky wavy inflatable arm flailing tube men, rides, and me! The event was CRAZY crowded. I did two shows. The first one was standing room only with almost 600 people packed into the small theater. Great crowd and a standing ovation at the end! The second one was a little less crowded, but still a fun audience. The new opener is going over VERY well. It’s a piece I took out of the middle of the show and put at the top and it plays MUCH better this way.



After getting back to the hotel around 130am, I had to get up at 4am for a 6am flight and then drove to Lexington, KY to perform at UK’s Student Center Spectacular. I performed at this event last year and had a ton of fun – I’m happy they asked me back. The room was HUGE – here’s a pic:




The show was very high energy and a lot of fun again this year. The only down side was I had to shut up a guy in the front row. While I hated having to do it, the entire audience loved it. They cheered pretty loud. He wasn’t heckling – just trying to be the funny guy with comments. I talked to him after the show and all was good. Also there was a fly or something onstage that kept flying in my face. I tried to catch it and eat it, but it got away. All in all – it was another awesome show with another standing ovation. I hope they have me back next year.

Got to my hotel again at a ridiculous hour and now, after a little bit of sleep, I drive 5 hours up to one of my favorite places to perform, BGSU. I’ve got a lot of people who come to every show I do at BGSU, and that makes me feel really cool. I hope they all show up tonight, I plan on putting on a hell of a show.

Peace, love and sleep deprivation,
MK

I spent all day yesterday at Madison Park Productions doing some Voiceover work before the tour starts Saturday.

Monday night, I had an amazing brainstorming session with some friends about possible new bits for the show. One of them is an almost show-ready idea. Another one is going to take a lot more work.

The biggest change to the show that will take place in September is a major change to the chicken trick. I’ve been doing the chicken trick for more than 10 years. And besides improvements and tweaks, it’s stayed the same for the most part. I decided to throw a GIANT curveball into the routine. I won’t say too much about it until I’ve taken it to the stage, but I’m VERY excited. The only down-side is that I’ve also now added an additional 5 lbs of weight to my show luggage. It will certainly be worth it, though! The only thing I can say is that rubber gloves are now a DEFINITE requirement in the show. Went to Walgreens and picked up a boat-load of them.

Also – lots of fun new music in the show. Here’s an idea:

I leave in the morning for two shows tomorrow night in Springfield, MO at Missouri State. Then it’s off to Lexington, KY for a show at UK. I’m going to do my best to get as much video and photos as I can to let you all experience the tour with me. The tour officially gets crazy busy starting…..NOW.

peace, love and ANIMALS,

MK

LOVE LOVE LOVE the set here.

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.