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Wheels 104.5 presents (Bob & Tom Show) David Crowe & Nikki Glaser

December 16, 2010 at The Bay City State Theater

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By: Mike Bacigalupo - State Theatre

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Nikki Glaser & David Crowe as seen on the Bob & Tom Show
 

Wheels 104.5 presents as seen on the Bob & Tom Show: David Crowe & Nikki Glaser at the Bay City State Theater on Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM



David Crowe: I was born in January of 1967, in St. Paul, Minnesota, during what history has come to know as the Winter of Love. My father had just completed eight years of exemplary service for Her Majesty the Queen's Royal Canadian Air Force, married a nice British woman name Maureen Connolly, and landed a job flying airplanes in the U.S. When I was just two months old they moved the family out to the west coast and we settled in Seattle, Washington. Mom bought me a flannel diaper and I plunged head-long into the burgeoning grunge scene while enjoying such Seattle specialties as Gerber's Goeyduck Compote and Ivar's Baby Tonic.

My self-awareness was born at the age of five when a kindergarten playmate informed me my underwear was inside out. A searing shame shot up my spine and I fried in humiliation. Up until that moment I had not realized there was a right or wrong way to do anything. My quest for public redemption began then and there.

During my junior high years I spent each summer on a boat with my dad a few of our friends exploring the thousands of islands that clutter the coast of British Columbia. There was an eight foot skiff with a nine horsepower outboard of which Charlie, Jimmy and I claimed sole proprietorship. In it we investigated every shallow bay, lagoon, islet and inlet from Washington to Alaska. We caught Dungeness crab, blew up dog fish and capsized whenever possible. On that little boat I had my first cigar and beer. I loved those summers.

In high school I became an American archetype. Played football (sort of, I was kicker and receiver), joined the soccer team, swim team and did all my homework. I was even chosen to speak at graduation. Ironically, I wrote the speech while doing community service, an honor I achieved after decorating a police car with toilet paper. Mom says those years were the greatest years of my life, and in a way they were, but for reasons I can never tell her.

I spent my twentieth birthday with the Cofan, a small tribe of Native Amazonians residing on the Agua Rico River near the boarder of Ecuador and Peru. They tried to teach me to hunt wild boar, fish for piranha, and live off the bounty of the jungle. I returned home twenty pounds lighter and sporting an excruciating inguinal hernia. I spent a lot of time thinking back to the summers in Canada. I loved those summers.

Upon graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in Brit. Lit., I traded in my flannel for a pair of dazzling white polyester pants and joined the cosmetic world of high seas tourism. On board a Princess cruise ship I visited 40 countries on five continents. The highlight has to have been a private dinner hosted by Mr. Sartov, in the grand ballroom of Catherine the Great's summer palace in Pushkin. It was there I had my first vodka, followed shortly there after by numbers two through twelve. Later on in the evening I swear Catherine herself made an appearance and we got funky on the parquet.

It was through tourism that I met my wife. We were introduced on May 14th, the anniversary of the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We were married one year later and our voyage has compared to theirs on many levels. We both love the outdoors and guided hikes through the mountains of Washington and Oregon for years. Eventually, like all great adventures, our marriage came to an end. I have now regrets. She changed me for the better.

Then there was the time I swam with sea lions in the Sea of Cortez. That was cool, though not nearly as exciting as being run down by the bear while fishing a river in Alaska. It was an instance when a dead salmon offers more protection than a gun. As I was madly throwing my days catch at the ornery brown monster until my friends arrived with the skiff, I remember thinking about Canada. I loved those summers.

Nikki Glaser is a comedian. She became one after she text messaged 'JOKE' to 7738 on her cellphone. She also became a hit at the office!

But if you must know more, Nikki started performing stand-up comedy when she was only 18 and still attending college at the University of Kansas. Two years later, she auditioned for the fourth season of Last Comic Standing and was advanced to the semi-finals in Los Angeles. Although the show only took three days to shoot, she lied to her professors and was subsequently excused from four weeks of class.

After graduating from college with a worthless degree in English, Nikki moved to Los Angeles and began touring clubs and colleges across the country. In the summer of 2007, she was invited to perform at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada. There, she met and performed with her comedy idols, drank alcoholic beverages, and thus lost her phone upwards of three times.

In 2009, Nikki made her first late night appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. There, she had fun and stole a beer from The Office's Rainn Wilson's dressing room, but not before calling him 'Dwight' on live television when she sat down on the couch next to Leno's desk.

In addition, she was just named one of the Top 10 Emerging Comics by Askmen.com. Currently, Nikki is performing in clubs all over the country and attempting to write the biography for her website.

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Mike Bacigalupo is the Executive Director of the State Theater in Downtown Bay City, Michigan

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