Today Show visits Mottley's Comedy Club in Boston, almost gets facts right while reporter gets stage time

Mottley's Comedy Club, friends of the site located just steps from Boston's Quincy Market, got some TV show love from the Today show, albeit at a cost. First, reporter Mike Taibbi identifies stand-up Ira Proctor as Sean Sullivan (Sullivan does appear in a brief shot at the end of the report). Then, Taibbi includes a clip of himself getting onstage and telling a corny joke about a snail. I suppose if an NBC News reporter wants to go onstage and do a short set, and you're going to get national TV exposure out of it, that's just a deal you're going to make, right. Anyhow: Also saw Chris Coxen in character, Dave Russo, and Mottley's co-owner Jon Lincoln -- as well as Mottley's Tim McIntire taking tickets at the door. Boston, you're not my home, but Boston, you're my home.

Wednesday nights are "bailout night" at the club -- bring in your pink slip and/or unemployment check stub and you and a friend get in free. That there's your news peg.

Roll the clip!

Comments

[Justin Timberlake]

DING DONG. That's Mike Taibbi, not Matt Taibbi.

[Sean]

Can't you just let me have my little inside jokey jokes?

[Brett]

ummm i believe Ira Proctor was identified appropriately.

[Sean]

Actually, Brett, they fixed this in what I'm now dubbing post-post, because when it aired originally and even was uploaded originally, the bit with Ira was given a voice-over as "comics like Sean Sullivan," and actually actually, the transcript still says "comics like Shawn Sullivan." So that's a double-no-no-no-no. But give them props for fixing the voiceover part. I've been known to make a typo or two myself, and at least the Internet does give you the chance to fix that, which newsprint does not.