“Saturday Night Live” cast member Darrell Hammond takes the stage at Comedy Works. He seems a bit under the weather, and during the course of his one-hour set – punctuated by dead-on impressions of Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson – he polishes off two cans of Red Bull.
It almost looks like a product placement: a high-energy drink for a high-energy act. But club owner Wende Curtis is the one who made sure Hammond had two cases of the beverage waiting for him.
Curtis also knows how Hammond likes his coffee, that he’s a bit on the shy side and that he wants to sleep in one of the most expensive beds in town.
“He wants the Brown Palace,” she said a few days later. “I pay him good money, but I sell out, and I make money. And he says really good things about us.”
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