Rodney Carrington has fun in Oklahoma
Tulsa comedian Rodney Carrington performed the first of a two-day stint just up Interstate 44 tonight at Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, OK.
He will perform another show at the casino at 7 p.m. Saturday. For more information, go to www.rodneycarrington.com.
The countrified comic’s King of the Mountains tour is taking him all around the U.S. this fall, from Billings, Mont., to Fort Worth, Texas. He also will play several dates at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
But Carrington - who was raised in Texas but has lived in Tulsa for 15 years “because I met my wife here and she won’t let me leave” – and his clan don’t have to go far from home to have a good time.
He told me in an interview earlier this summer about the impromptu vacation he, wife Terri and their three sons took. They were planning to drive down to Dallas but instead stopped at Oklahoma City theme park Frontier City. It was their first visit to the theme park, and they rode the river rapids ride until they were soaked.
After, they ate at Golden Corral, stayed the night in a hotel and drove back to Tulsa the next day on Route 66, with a stop along the way in Arcadia at POPS soda emporium/diner/convenience store.
“This is how hillbilly we are,” he cracked. “We went on a big vacation and it was a hour and a half from where we live. But we had a ball, because it’s all about being together.”
Carrington co-wrote and co-starred with fellow Oklahoman Toby Keith in the action-comedy “Beer for My Horses.” The movie got a limited release earlier this summer and is expanding to more theaters in the next couple of weeks.
He said his writing experiences on his TV sitcom ”Rodney,” which ran on ABC from 2004-06, were invaluable to working on the screenplay with the country music star.
He added that working on the movie was fun, even if it was a lot of work and craft services served up way too many burritos. (“Everything was in a flour tortilla,” he cracked, abruptly going off on a funny tangent. “You’d get Cap’n Crunch in a flour tortilla. I thought that was odd.”)
But fans shouldn’t expect to see him starring in another TV show – ever.
“No. Never. Never again. Never. You can write that down in big, bold, black letters.”
He elaborated: “It’s 100 hours a week for $4 an hour. … And you’re working for somebody else who’s telling you what to do creatively when they don’t have any business being in the position that they’re in. That’s what television was to me. You dealt with a lot of people that would tell you creatively what you needed to know and what you needed to do when the whole reason they came to me in the beginning was because they liked what it is that I did and they liked the success.”
Right now, taking his rowdy observational humor and ribald songs on the road as a stand-up comedian is fun for him.
“I enjoy going out and doing my show and making people laugh. And that’s my objective in my life is to make people laugh and hopefully take away a little bit of their problems for the hour and a half that they come spend time at my show,” he said.
In addition, he and Keith wrote a couple of comedy songs together for Carrington’s new album of uproarious ditties. Keith also produced the new album, which is due out early next year.
For people who go to his upcoming shows – he’ll be back in Shawnee in December if you can’t make it up to Miami this weekend – he has a lot of new material and songs to share.
“Anyone that saw the special I put out last year on Comedy Central, it’s a lot different than that. A lot of it’s changed,” he said. “It’s just a continuation of what I’ve been doing for 20 years.”
-BAM
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