{"id":3932,"date":"2010-07-01T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2010-07-01T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:49:15","slug":"meltdown-at-hooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/meltdown-at-hooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown at Hooters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Too many Las Vegas<\/strong> shows are afflicted with a lack of spontaneity (the Celine Dion<\/strong>\/Franco Dragone<\/strong> snoozer A New Day<\/em> was the worst offender in my experience). No such worries where Hooters Casino Hotel<\/strong> headliner Todd Paul<\/a><\/strong> is concerned. Last night, Paul cut his set short after 45 minutes. Frustrated with a small, unresponsive crowd and with gags that didn’t “play,” Paul made no effort to hide his vexation and basically walked off in mid-show when an audience member refused to join him onstage.<\/p>\n

Wow. You don’t see that every night on the Strip. Hooters has renovated a second-story ballroom into an “Iowa” showroom. Although the discreet entrance could easily be mistaken for a broom closet, it’s a much nicer venue than Dixie’s Dam Bar<\/strong>. Seating is well-organized and orderly, quite a contrast to Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club<\/strong><\/a>. There, the seating policy was evidently dictated by King Louis XV<\/strong>: “After me, chaos.”<\/p>\n

The Hooters casino floor is quite likeable and player-friendly (lots of participation games, unlike Harrah’s Entertainment<\/strong> casinos). What a shame that it’s shackled to a ramshackle hotel and an unsafe-looking parking garage. If ever there were a case for waiving the 200-room-hotel requirement enshrined in Nevada Revised Statutes<\/strong>, Hooters would be it. If you kept the casino, restaurant and entertainment but scrapped everything else, it would not only be a much more appealing property (Son of Slots-A-Fun<\/strong>, if you will) but probably a more commercially viable one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too many Las Vegas shows are afflicted with a lack of spontaneity (the Celine Dion\/Franco Dragone snoozer A New Day was the worst offender in my experience). No such worries where Hooters Casino Hotel headliner Todd Paul is concerned. Last … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,4,7,11,25,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}