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Thursday Night TNT, Modesto, CA (2026)

08/30/2019

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09/28/2018

Week 12
Holy crap was Thursday Night TNT fun tonight.
The Vikings / Rams game ended at 8:30pm, so we started early and it took a few minutes for the crowd to simmer into a stew, but man, was it fun when it finally did.
Thanks to: Dave, David, Serena, Harry, Shawn, Lb, Jacob & Taylor for having fun with us.
There was a good group of fans that rolled in mid-show and the show ended up being a lot of fun; it was almost like it was magic. They even hung around and drank for a good hour after the show.
The diversity of our open mic night has been exciting. We had two magicians, six stand-up comics and a druken heckler that got hustled into doing a set tonight.
Shout out to our bartender, Cherish, for holding down the fort behind the bar. 🍺
See everybody next Thursday for Thursday Night TNT at the Clarion Modesto.

09/21/2018

Week 11
Thanks to our guest host, Dave Garret for holding down the fort while our regular host, Jimmie, was headlining a road gig.
It was a fun night. Not only did the Browns win their first game in over 600 days, we had a new first at Thursday Night TNT Open Mic: the audience performed, like all of 'em.
Dave even convinced some of our regular guests get up onstage.
It was a night full of folks having fun and people were staying after the show to drink, drink and drink.
Dave didn't get many pics, but the ones he did illustrate the fun to be had EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT at the Clarion Modesto.
Thanks to Cherish and the rest of the staff, and to Jay and Mytv26 and to our slowly, but surely growing group of regulars who stick around after football for Thursday Night TNT
See ya next week when Jimmie returns to host.

09/14/2018

Week 10
Tonight was another memorable night at Shooters Pub & Grill.
Shout out to: Eli Boyd, Austin Brown, Christy, Lala, the mysterious one named Sean returning to the stage after 30 years and to Messy Marv (if that’s even your real name) for dropping a great set. Thanks to this week's special host, Jacob Blaeser for holding down the fort.
Thanks to Mytv26 and the staff at the Clarion Modesto & our bartender Cherish for the hospitality.
See everybody next week at the Thursday Night TNT Open Mic

09/07/2018

Week 9
We survived NFL Opening Night.
We survived a unite the right rally next door.
We survived having to hear Chris Collinsworth providing the WORST commentary ever.
We started after the game and had a cool lil crowd to at the beginning, but by the time midnight rolled around it was as empty as could be. But overall, we're glad the Pubs didn't come into the pub.
Our host even went out of the way to make sure to let the international guests staying at the hotel those p'woods chanting 'lock her up' in the conference room don't represent all of Americans, just the backwards-thinking ones. Little kids wearing MAGA hats should be considered a form of child abuse.
It was our first ALL STAND UP list so far, and we even had a comic from LA pop-in cause he was a guest at the hotel. They're filming a pool party scene for an upcoming straight-to-Netflix movie there.
Thanks to: Andrew, Jeff, Jacob, Serena, Bill, Dave G, and Lil G (from LA) for hanging out and working on y'alls' acts with us.
Thanks to Cherish for running the kitchen, waiting tables, tending bar, cleaning the place up and being a super awesome TV-turner-downer.
Thanks to Mytv26 for filming the show and thanks to our three tables worth of steadfast regulars that have been coming out to have fun with us each and every week.
Sometimes, it's the small things; and seeing a buncha new comics talking shop, planning out-of-town mic runs together and literally getting better before our eyes makes running a weekly open mic worth the effort.
See ya next week for the next dose of Thursday Night TNT

08/31/2018

Week 8
We're kinda tipping, there was a late start Niner game and there were more folks there for the show than to watch the game. We have honest-to-God regulars that really like our show 😃
So we started at nine, and low and behold, we had a dearth of performers cause we were all expecting to begin late, like we did the last time there was a 7:30pm pst game.
So Seth Baker rocked out and sang a good dozen songs. 🍀
Vote for him in the UNPLUGGED category of the Modesto Area Music Awards. He's rad.
Vote at www.modestoareamusic.com/vote
We had a fun and interactive audience for the new guy, Austin Brown, who did 20 minutes staring down the mouth of the doomsday machine like a champ (it gets easier, it really does). The Spicy Latina, Serena Gamboa, and our host, Jimmie Menezes, both MAMAnated for BEST COMEDY, closed out with 40 minutes of psychobabble, crowd work, personal stories, rants, silly songs and fun. We even asked the audience to heckle as a warm up for the upcoming show, and boy howdy, did they heckle. And boy howdy was it fun to watch and be a part of. A dozen people never sounded so loud.
There was a cool handful of people that, after last night, undoubtedly became life-long fans of and stayed til the very end to say how much fun they had with us.
Nice meeting you Rolando and Patty, see ya two real soon.
Thanks to Jay and Mytv26 for documenting our lil madhouse and putting it on public access TV for the world to see. It's a jungle out there as a performer, and there's no better way to get ready for it than by jumping head-first into the tiger exhibit at the zoo.
Shout out to our bartender, Cherish for busting her butt to keep everybody happy; and thanks for inviting your brother, he's a fun dude.
See y'all next Thursday for the next dose of .
It's opening night, and an early start east coast game, so game on at the usual time.

08/24/2018

Week 7
Last night's Thursday Night TNT was a cool lil show. We almost had an all stand up line-up, save Eli and Hans, who walked in at the last minute carrying a flute. I can honestly say it was the first time I'd ever seen a floutist at an open mic.
The NFL game ended early so we were able to start on time this week, and besides, it was a Browns game.
Thanks to the Clarion staff and our beautificious bartender Cherish, Jay and Mytv26 and of course the fun regulars and folks who came to catch the show.
Thanks to Jacob for doing the legwork to get the PA out and thanks to Eli, Aaron Kromann, Lala, LB, Jacob, Austin, Serena and Hans for rocking our mic. I literally told y'all do as much time as you want and we all did that, and it went great; it was more of a workshop than just a regular ol soul sucking open mic. They even liked my random rants about Arbys, GG Allin and Kurdt Cobain shooting himself - it was a blast 💥
See everybody next Thursday for

08/17/2018

Week 6
Shout out to our guest host Dave Garret for holding things down this week while our regular host, Jimmie, was gigging out-of-town.
There wasn't a big crowd, but three audience members went up and tried comedy for the first time because Dave encouraged everyone to sign up. Dave said one audience member was even funnier than the comics.
Thanks to Mytv26 & Cherish for all their help, and thanks to the Clarion Modesto staff.
See y'all next week for

08/10/2018

Week 5
Are ya ready for some football!?!
We had a late start time cause the Niner / Cowboy game was competitive til the final whistle, but we had a pretty big audience that stayed til the end of the mic. We were still rockin & rollin with a crowd at midnight.
There's four late start West Coast games on Thursday this season (one being a Niner game), so this week was a great dry run so-to-speak.
We had a performer from China, a comic from LA passing through, local comics, new comics and of course a lotta fun. Plus, Dave Garret figured out how crowd work works right before our very eyes. It was like watching a lil kid open a present on Christmas morning.
We had a heckler that would NOT stop yelling at the comics, and in true fashion, we put the heckler on stage for everybody to heckle. She did ten minutes while everybody was yelling at her.
Thanks to Cherish and the rest of the Clarion staff & Jay from Mytv26 for filming the beautiful disaster of a night.
Damn this is a hard room for comedy. It makes us such better performers having to handle this crowd. The Niner fans would yell NINE-URUUUURS after every punchline.
Thanks to: Jacob, Lala, Dawn, Messy Marv, Taylor, Marcus, Dave, Mike, Austin & Frank the Tank for hitting our stage (yes, we have a stage).
Our regular host Jimmie will be gigging outta town next week, so our special guest host will be the one and only Dave Garret, the shirtless skateboard guy. See y'all next week, we're predicting shenanigans and hilarity once again.

08/03/2018

Week 4
This week's Thursday Night TNT was a lotta fun.
They fixed the AC so it was nice & cool inside. We had karaoke working for the first time and a lotta kickass comedians came from as far away as San Francisco to grace our stage.
We also tried a rotating list, ala the Marty's mic in LA, and comics were able to do two sets after everybody did their time their first time through the list. We had a cool lil workshop where we yelled tag lines at the comic onstage working on a new bit.
Thanks to the Clarion Modesto staff, our bartender Cherish and Mytv26 for filming the hilarity and jams.
Thanks to: Mark, Dave, Jacob, Serena, Mike, Eli, Merlin & LB for hitting our mic
And thanks to the Single A baseball team, long haul truckers & bar regulars for having fun with us. Thanks for coming everybody 🐙

07/24/2018

Hey folks the AC at Shooters is fixed; it was nice and cool last week.

07/20/2018

Week 2
This week's Thursday Night TNT was 🔥. We had another Clarion orginal return from retirement to rock our stage, two first timers break their comedy 🍒, a hip hop act, Eli from Michigan, a comic from San Jose do 20 minutes and an f'n radass crowd that stayed from start to finish. There was even a mean heckler that the audience cursed at til she left. It was almost like when they chant AS***LE at wrestling events, except the word was a lot worse. 😝
Thanks for coming everybody; we're there every Thursday night.
Shout out to Angela for ending her first set ever on an abortion joke and getting an applause break.
The comics are figuring out that crowd work, "going there" and pacing are the key to getting over onstage. Someone wise once said the Clarion is very "'What have you done for me lately', and by lately we mean 45 seconds ago".
Comics were literally getting better before our eyes & Mytv26 was there to film it all.
Thanks to Cherish, Jason and the rest of the staff at the Clarion for the hospitality.
Thanks to everyone who graced our stage (yes, we have a stage now) it was a lotta fun.
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