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WELL SAID DOC!  :oh yeah:  :oh yeah:  :oh yeah:

I agree with CroakDog on this one - you have to establish rapport with your singers - make it a personal experience...pretty soon they're considering you their very own karaoke host. Have to be cautious, though, and only do it with the people who seem to love the attention.

Oh, I'm sure you guys will get a kick out of this - Hip Hop is NOT going anywhere.  A young woman named Shannon (once Goth, roller derby girl) comes in to my shows. She and I actually sing 'GET LOW' - it brings the house down every single time. Now you gotta admit, a 52 (almost 53yo) grandmother singing Get Low is worth witnessing.

In years past I would have probably NOT sung a 'song' like that but fact is, we're not going to control it...and in the appropriate location, it is appropriate. When I go outside where the smokers are, I often hear them talking about Get Low and how funny it is when I sing it.  Kind of takes you into their arena somehow. They're all dancing and singing with us when we do it, and get LOTS of high fives when we're done. I know, I know, how can I sing those lyrics? Don't even think of what I'm singing, just focus on spitting out the right syllables at the right time...a rapper I'm not!

PS: I have NO age as far as these kids are concerned...and am often mistaken for someone much younger.

Karen

If anybody disrepects a singer at one of my shows either by name calling or disparaging their singing in any way i make a point of embaressing them for doing so... dont really get them evicted from the bar as a few cutting remarks always put them in their place...  can give you someone to poke fun at for the rest of the night too, done right this changes their attitude and makes them behave better..

no two situations are the same esp where alcohol is involved...

i use the f bomb very liberally some nights, and sparingly if at all on others.. all depends of the make up of the crowd.... wanton use is a bit pointless, but any fan of stand up can tell you the odd cuss word or seven can make something pretty bland a lot funnier....

seems to be lots of differing opinions over there on this topic... we pretty laid back in nz

If you want to do stand up, why waste your time KJing?   You never know who is actually in your crowd at any given time.

At a comedy club, everything goes, almost.  Ask KRAMER.

Karaoke is a diffferent thing.  I have one singer at one bar that feels it's his duty to F bomb everyone, because he chooses to sing a broadway song or something like that.   F...you all, i'm singing this and F you.  It's out of the context of the rest of the show.  It always gets some dropped jaws.   Said in front of the right person on the right night, it could be a problem for him.  There are actually people out there (men) that don't talk like that and don't want their wife, girlfriend, mother...to be subjected to that.  

Hip hop and rap music seem to have a disrespect for everyone.  They don't discriminate with their lyrics.

I don't like it and i don't subject others to it either.  It's like the smoker that wants to share (force) his bad, cancer causing habit with me.  That's OK buddy, i'm going to shoot up here and you won't mind if i squirt some on you, will ya?  I'm not forcing my crowd to endure something i don't like or care for or need.