The Story of Some Guy (day 8)

Pat Oates
2 min readApr 25, 2021

The Amazing Gene came up to the stage with a large paper bag that had the words my career written in Sharpie on it. He was wearing a black cape, one of those t-shirts that has a tuxedo front drawn on it, break away wind pants and Magic Johnson Chuck Taylor’s on his feet. Amazing Gene was balding, about 5 foot 4 and easily 250 pounds. This mother fucker was bar magic personified.

He placed the bag down on a stool, walked over to the juke box and put in a dollar. Gene selected 3 songs, then headed back to his bag of tricks. The song Magic by The Cars played as Amazing Gene turned…

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Pat Oates

Author of How Not to Suck at Comedy. Comedian, podcaster, radio personality, pretended his mom was dead on tv once