Michael McIntyre - 24 March 2026

On 22 March 2026 we valeted the 392 (Jeep) at Bombara Restaurant in true blue Salt Lake City. After dinner we, and co-diners, another couple, took a short walk to the Eccles Theater to see the British comic, Michael McIntyre. McIntyre is on his first performance tour of the US. TIMDT got the tix last October. She is crazy about Michael McIntyre.

On return to Bombara to pick up the 392, the valet guys waxed enthusiastic over the car. "Wow... is this one of those souped-up jeeps?" "Yes," I replied. "It even has a note augmentation switch, I said." I hit the note switch for the jeep enthusiast valet guys. Cue better than Harley 392 note. "Wow!" they exclaimed.

I can't imagine the humiliation I would have felt valeting at such a fine establishment as Bombara an EV or a hybrid. I'm glad not to have had to undergo the indignity of that experience. :-)

By the way, McIntyre was great. Full house at the Eccles Theater. Wow, I didn't know a single stand-up act could attract so many theater goers!

For me his funniest lines were his story about mistakenly ordering for his own room service dinner from the dog menu at the Beverly Hills Hotel. When the waiter asked if he should set up the service on the floor, McIntyre, incensed, said, "Absolutely not! Set it up on the table." He consumed the dog food meal. Once he realized his mistake, he ordered from the regular room service menu. When the waiter knocked on the hotel room door, McIntyre simulated barking from inside the room then simulated locking the "dog" inside the bathroom. When he opened the door to let the waiter in, disappointingly, it was a different waiter. Anyway, I don't do justice to the story. It was hilarious. Good to see comics out there that can succeed sans scatological joke telling. I'm now a Michael McIntyre follower!

Just as clean comics might be making a comeback, the evidence is becoming clearer that clean, family movies do better than typical Hollywood pedo-effluent. "Project Hail Mary," despite its lead actor, Ryan Gosling, being a Canadian, scored eighty million viewers in its opening weekend. I read the novel by Andy Wier. I'm going to try to see the film today. If they can one-up the fabulous "Interstellar," staring non-Canadian, Mathew McConaghy, I'm all in!