WHEN I WAS ON THE ROAD a lot in my salad days–which, ironically, is the time in all of our lives when we almost never eat salads–my favorite audiences were always in the Twin Cities.

Now since I’m not running for office, you can believe me when I say I also really liked every other place I played, because it’s true. Every city I worked across the United States and Canada was a great job. Some of the clubs were nicer than others, some were far nicer, and some stunk. But the audiences were always there to be entertained, and any decent comic had plenty of clay to mold.