Comedy at a Cat Cafe
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Your above average intelligence brought you here. It deserves above average absurdity. This is The Last Show with David Cooper. Imagine doing stand-up comedy for cats, full stop. Okay, maybe not full stop, but imagine going to a comedy showcase at a cat cafe with little critters running around while the comics are trying to make jokes. That is exactly what my friend Marty Cunney does. He puts on a show at a cat cafe here in New York. Marty, welcome to the show. How's it going? It is going well. Before we start, what is a cat cafe? And side note, how can they serve coffee? How does the health board even license this place? Well, let's start with the fact that calling it a cafe is a bit of a stretch. It's really just an adoption center.
It's a shelter that has, during its regular hours, people pay to go hang out with cats for half-hour increments at a time. And then there's other activities they do. I know they do a cat yoga there. They'll have the occasional music night. I think they had a Peyton sip, that kind of thing. But we're a monthly, bi-monthly event doing comedy there. And so, yeah, there's like... The cafe itself at any time has at least 100 cats. But they're in separate wings of the cafe itself. So the portion that we're in is probably about 40 cats running around at any given time. So... And it's not like the pound where they're all in cages. Like they are literally running around, running amok, getting into fights. These are free range cats.
They are... They own the space. I mean, if you know cats... It doesn't matter how many of them are fighting for an area. They're all just kind of like, this is my spot. A stand-up comedy show in that environment.
What is a cat cafe and how does it operate?
How much of that show is about the comics and their material? And how much of that show is just about observing the cats, commenting on the cats, the cats getting into a fight, humping each other, doing things like this while you're trying to do your act? Let's say 80-20. So 80%. I mean, the show was good. The show was great. I mean, because the comics on it are really strong. They're really funny people. but the cats provide just enough distraction, you know? And like, I feel like every comic has ADHD. So like they can't not talk about the cat that's like walking in front of them. I mean, I do my best to pick up every cat and talk to them. I had one time, two cats fighting behind me during my set. And it's like, well,
We're done with jokes now. We're going to talk about the cats fighting behind me. Was it like a play fight or was it like a full-on like two tomcats with the rear and things like this? Oh, I mean, there was some noises for sure. They were... I couldn't have gone around that. I mean, it takes very little to distract people with cats, right? And so... If even if it wasn't a full on fight, it would have been pretty distracting. But this was a pretty full on fight. And they were like on like a ledge, too. So it was it was high stakes. It felt like a movie. Do you get to know the kiddies that you're performing with like week in, week out? Or do they get adopted? I do because because I run the show on there like every month and every so twice a month usually.
And so I see a lot of repeats. So I get an idea of who's like a real trouble starter and who would be fun to bring on stage because they're not going to scratch me. Which I, and even, you know, sometimes I'm wrong. Sometimes they'll scratch me anyways. They don't care. Cats. How about them? You and I are both secretly cat daddies. Well, me not so secretly. I've, there's no secret. Yeah. Do you like dogs at all? Because I feel like dogs teach you about unconditional love, but cats teach you about boundaries. I've heard that you should only date men who know cats because they'll be good respecting your boundaries. Yeah, or well, that's I feel like that can't be true because I do not respect my cat's boundaries, but they also do not respect mine.
So, you know, there's a little give and take there. I see where people come up with that statement, but that is assuming you have a prototypical cat.
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