Hey, hello premium members, how are you? Hope you're doing great. Welcome to another exclusive premium member clip from

yours truly Harlem Williams. One of the things I promised you premium members and by the way thank you as always for being premium members I do appreciate your commitment and I certainly hope you're enjoying the content being provided.

One of the things I promised you guys is

Recordings of my stand-up shows when I'm doing, you know, I'm working on new material or I'm doing a

special event or some such thing and and tonight's uh... tonight's stand-up recording of me live is an interesting one.

A couple of things going on.

One, I was not feeling well when I went up on stage. I was I was running a little bit of a fever I had a cold

And it was one of those things this is the hard part of stand-up comedy is sometimes you're booked to do a show and you can be seven

tits to the wind which if you're not a sailor means you're feeling like crap you you've all had the flu right you've all called

in sick to work well when you've been hired by a city or a town to fly all the way in and do live stand-up shows for people that have

already bought their tickets it's hard to say no it's hard to cancel it's a big conundrum. It's a big, you know, the club has to cancel, the club

has to refund all the tickets, the flights, the hotels, this to that, you you know me getting paid

So it's really tough to just cancel a show

Luckily this was a local show and it was what I thought was just going to be like 10 minutes

It was a local show down at the Hollywood Improv in Hollywood California and I thought it was just one of those nights

It was a Sunday night where I thought I could go in and work on some new material.

And I thought, I'll do the 10 minutes, suffer through my misery and get out. one will be the wiser and then I get there I'm

not feeling great and one of the guys running the show before it starts walks up to

me and goes hey man thanks for being here I said

you know you're welcome thanks for having me and goes this really means a lot for the

troops and I go the troops you guys oh, didn't anyone tell you this is a military show?

This is all for the troops here tonight.

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