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What are you, a comedian?
If you think you might be Bonkerz Comedy Club will hold a comedy school in Palace Station. The six-week class begins March 12 and meets from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays.
Bonkerz Comedy School is $250 per student and includes two complimentary tickets to each Thursday show at Bonkerz Comedy Club during the course. To register for the class, please call (866) 414-2665 or e-mail [email protected].
The classes will let each comic focus on his or her own stand-up material and teach techniques to help with timing, delivery and working the crowd.
The course’s main instructor, Mick Lazinski, will offer the students insight from his real-life experiences as a comedian. Lazinski has headlined at comedy clubs all over the country and opened for acts such as Joan Rivers, Craig Ferguson and the legendary George Carlin. His television appearances include “Comic Strip Live” on Fox, “Comedy on the Road” on Showtime and “Caroline’s Comedy Club” on A&E, among others. In addition to Lazinski, the comedy school plans to bring in celebrity comics as guest instructors.
On April 5 and 19, comedy school students will have the opportunity to enter a two-part contest in which the winner will perform in a professional show at Bonkerz. For the contest, the students will perform during the Sunday Comedy Jam at 9 p.m. on April 5 and 19. Their performances will be judged by Lazinski as well as the evening’s audience members. Tickets for the Comedy Jam are $9.95 plus tax and fees.
Palace Station, located just off Interstate 15 on West Sahara, offers comfort, luxury and affordability.
Originally called the Bingo Palace, the casino changed its name to Palace Station in 1984. Palace Station has more than 100,000 square feet of gaming space, including one of the biggest varieties of Baccarat and Pai Gow tile games off the Strip. The casino also offers more than 1,600 slot/video poker machines, 45 table games including blackjack, Pai Gow poker, Pai Gow tiles, Ultimate Texas Hold'Em, craps, roulette and baccarat.
Asian Table Games Area includes Pai-Gow Tiles and Mini and Midi Baccarat with no-commission EZ baccarat, along with Dragon 7 and Panda 8 side bets, plus Dragon Bonus for Midi Baccarat games.
The casino also features a 24-hour, nine-table, non-smoking poker room, a 307-seat bingo hall open 7 days a week with sessions running every other hour from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., a 230-seat race & sports book featuring 44 screens, and a 20-seat keno lounge.
Dining options include Cabo, which specializes in Mexican food, steaks and seafood at The Broiler and Italian from Pasta Cucina.
Entertainment includes Louie Anderson and other stand-up comedians.
(If you're interested in history, the Palace Station was also the site of some international news in 2007 and 2008 — it was where NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson led a raid on a hotel room to try recover some of his sports memorabilia and was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping after a highly publicized trial.)
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