My thoughts here are this - the title of the show over ping-pong.  
Now that is a fond memory.  We laughed & laughed at all the different 
tiles we had for this show.  Dale & Eric were really cooking.  And it 
seems to me we spent a lot of time in Steve's Basement for this show. 
I think we all felt a bit trollish.

Looking at the set list this was a pretty good show - if hadn't been 
for the feminist nazi girlfriend in the audience I'd say everyone 
who saw it really enjoyed it.  I especially liked this show for 
some reason.  I had sort of forgotten about it, but every time we 
talk about I get warm fuzzies.  

A lot of our friends came to the show.  Lots of family was there.  
I hated Fishing for Compliments and desperately wished I could be 
in Swishbucklers... but we can't have all the good roles.  I loved 
the Line & wish that would get into some best of shows.  French was 
seen for the first time that show - and the famous seat sniffing 
scene was born.  

Another thing to note is that we were still doing Blow Me to 
close the show. I hated coming up with verses, but I loved 
the idea and the song.  I have to admit I miss it.  

Joe's dad coined the phrase "Crazy Eyed Eric" at that show, 
and I got to see Eric's mom a little sauced for the first time.  
Corky is so cute when she's tipsy!  She kept saying "That's 
my boy..." while he was preforming encore after encore.  I really 
liked this show.  

Why didn't we go there again?  Didn't they screw us on the 
bill or something? Too bad - it was a pretty nice set up.

- Mo Gannon (Gag 1996 - 2000)

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Ah yes. The Ping Pong show. Mo's right. This show was a blast. 
While it did have some not so great moments (I agree about
Fishing) it contained some really great material. I have always
been a big fan of Cozy Coven. Mo and I wrote several things for
this show but only this got in. One of my favorite things about 
this show is the stuff that didn't get in. Teal, A Musing, A Boy
and His Mime, Truman Capote - Texas Ranger. Lots of really surreal 
stuff was written for this show. There was also a lot of 
collaboration. Dale and I wrote Perfect Man. Me, Steve, Dale and 
Kris sat and talked about Swishbucklers at a bar before Steve 
went and wrote it. Your Dad was based on a thing Ledford and 
I would do back and forth. It was a really happy creative time. 
Best of all, everybody contributed to this show. Some shows it
felt lopsided. Steve and I always turning in tons of material, 
Dale throwing a few brilliant pieces in and a couple trickling
in from the others. This was a really balanced show. 

I don't really remember the performance other than Steve and Kris 
being sick and slamming Zinc during rehearsals and OH YEAH!
The stage!! Mo's dad built this 6 piece portable stage for us that
we still use to this day.  This is the first show we used it in.

And yeah I love the chair sniffing bit in French. I remember the first
time I did that I thought Dale was going to keel over dead
he was laughing so hard.

- Eric