Comedian piles on the insults for his shows at Hooters

By Jerry Fink (contact)

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | 2 a.m.

Saber-tongued comedian Bobby Slayton hasn’t mellowed in the year he has headlined at Hooters’ Night Owl Showroom.

He still rants and raves and paces. He still spits out a machine-gun staccato so fast he’s able to cram two hours of material into an hour.

Check your politically correct sensibilities at the door because Slayton takes no prisoners in his tirades against young and old, Jews (he’s Jewish), blacks, East Indians, Chinese, Muslims.

“Muslims — you don’t smoke, you don’t drink, you don’t (have sex), you don’t gamble,” he fumes. “What are you doing in Las Vegas?”

Slayton is a heat-seeking missile whose radar targets members of the audience and then blows them away with his caustic wit. Take the man in Vegas celebrating his 21st birthday with his girlfriend.

“What do you do for foreplay, homework?”

Then he wastes the entire front row — most of them members of the Colorado family helping the 21-year-old celebrate. Mother, father, sister, brother. All gunned down.

Slayton begins his routine with riffs on his own wife and daughter — one suffering from menopause, the other from her menstrual cycle.

“One you can’t live with five days out of the month, the other you can only live with five days out of the month,” he says in his raspy voice. “I can’t help. I just pay for stuff.”

There is no linear direction to Slayton’s routine. His takes an ADD approach to comedy. His tangents go off on tangents.

After he has the room rocking with laughter for 30 minutes, he says he’s going to get into his act — but then someone in the audience catches his attention and he’s off in another direction.

Slayton’s warm-up, Robert DeShaine, moves in extreme slow motion compared with Slayton but lays the proper foundation for the star of the show.

“I’m bitter. I’m angry,” DeShaine says. “I didn’t expect to live this long.”

He takes on noisy neighbors, serial killers, divorce and differences between the sexes.

“Women, on average, use 7,000 words a day,” he says. “Men, an average of 2,000 — and most of those are ‘uh-huh.’ ”

Details: 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays; Hooters’ Night Owl Showroom; $36.95; 739-9000

New “Show in the Sky”

The Rio’s free “Masquerade Show in the Sky” has been revitalized, becoming edgier and more stylish, after being closed several months for revamping.

Now known as “Show in the Sky,” the production is a Brazilian-themed show with performers dancing on sky-high fantasy floats.

Doug Johnson is the show’s creator and producer. His new version, which includes three shows, has a bedroom scene and a bath/spa scene. The bedroom performance features a 17-foot-long bed with high-energy “performers of seduction.”

The new music is as edgy as the performances, with songs such as “Please Don’t Stop the Music” by Rihanna, “Sexy Back” by Justin Timberlake and “Buttons” by Pussycat Dolls.

Details: 7 p.m. to midnight, Thursdays through Sundays; Rio’s Masquerade Village; free.

Around town

Novelist Jackie Collins will be busy in Las Vegas this weekend, autographing her new book and playing poker. Collins will sign copies of “Married Lovers” at 1 p.m. Saturday at Le Cabaret at Paris Las Vegas. She’ll join actresses Mimi Rogers, Teri Hatcher and others in a women-only event at the World Series of Poker Sunday at the Rio ... Blues singer and guitarist Peach will perform next weekend at Louis’ Fish Camp in the Town Square shopping center. She’ll be accompanied by guitarist Miles Joseph and Las Vegas musicians Ronnie Mack on bass, Harvey Hughes on drums and Rick Ulsky on keyboards. (8 p.m. to midnight, June 13-14; Louis’ Fish Camp, Town Square, 6605 S. Las Vegas Blvd.; no cover charge; 463-3000)