LowLife Staff Reviews

"Piles on Insults"

(From the Las Vegas Sun)

Comedian piles on the insults for his shows at Hooters
by Jerry Fink

"Saber-tongued comedian Bobby Slayton hasn’t mellowed in the year he has headlined at Hooters’ Night Owl Showroom.

He still rants and raves and paces. He still spits out a machine-gun staccato so fast he’s able to cram two hours of material into an hour.

Check your politically correct sensibilities at the door because Slayton takes no prisoners in his tirades against young and old, Jews (he’s Jewish), blacks, East Indians, Chinese, Muslims.

“Muslims — you don’t smoke, you don’t drink, you don’t (have sex), you don’t gamble,” he fumes. “What are you doing in Las Vegas?”

Slayton is a heat-seeking missile whose radar targets members of the audience and then blows them away with his caustic wit. Take the man in Vegas celebrating his 21st birthday with his girlfriend.

“What do you do for foreplay, homework?”

Then he wastes the entire front row — most of them members of the Colorado family helping the 21-year-old celebrate. Mother, father, sister, brother. All gunned down.

Slayton begins his routine with riffs on his own wife and daughter — one suffering from menopause, the other from her menstrual cycle.

“One you can’t live with five days out of the month, the other you can only live with five days out of the month,” he says in his raspy voice. “I can’t help. I just pay for stuff.”

There is no linear direction to Slayton’s routine. His takes an ADD approach to comedy. His tangents go off on tangents.

After he has the room rocking with laughter for 30 minutes, he says he’s going to get into his act — but then someone in the audience catches his attention and he’s off in another direction.

Slayton’s warm-up, Robert DeShaine, moves in extreme slow motion compared with Slayton but lays the proper foundation for the star of the show.

“I’m bitter. I’m angry,” DeShaine says. “I didn’t expect to live this long.”

He takes on noisy neighbors, serial killers, divorce and differences between the sexes.

“Women, on average, use 7,000 words a day,” he says. “Men, an average of 2,000 — and most of those are ‘uh-huh.’ ”"

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"GUT SPLITTING!!!"

OMG!! He is soooo funny!! However if you are easy to offend Do not go...HE offends all....equal opportunity. We laughed so hard our sides hurt when we left!
We would realllllllllllllllllllllly recommend this...What a fun night!

"An Unexpected Non-PC Treat"

I suppose we had a bit of a preconceived attitude when we read that some comic we hadn't heard of was playing at, of all places, Hooters Casino. I mean, how good could it be--Hooters?? After reading a positive review in the paper about Bobby Slayton and getting some good word-of-mouth from some friends about him we decided to see for ourselves.

His act opens with a video montage of a bunch of name comedians poking fun at Bobby including the Smothers Brothers, Rita Rudner, Jay Leno and Robin Williams. Then the self-proclaimed "pit bull of comedy" comes out and, in his scratchy, godfather-on-crack voice proceeds to lampoon, without mercy, pretty much every ethnic and sexual stereotype present in the audience. If you want to be picked on, sit in the front couple of rows and hang on. Blondes, blacks, asians and "homos" are all beat up and just when it seems to cross the line, Bobby does the same thing to himself, his wife and their sex life, effectively diffusing any built up audience resentment.

We left satisfied that we had finally, once again, seen a non-politically correct show in Las Vegas, something that seems difficult to find these days. We both gave the show a thumbs up. (When we rated this show we gave the "attitude" a #1 which means "asshole". We only did that 'cause he's trying to be an asshole on stage. In reality, he seems like he's actually a nice guy.)

FYI: I guess his opening acts change regularly but we saw a guy named Steve Caoette who was actually quite funny in his own right.