Catalina redux

I topped off Friday with a trip to Playboy’s Night Calls. In my 200-mile trek back and forth to places around Porn Valley (only Lexington Steele’s place was actually in the Valley) I ate at McDonald’s not once but twice. I hate myself (but not enough to appear in a pegging video).

Having won SugarDVD’s second Night Calls contest, an enbooted women from (Michigan) named Catalina disrobed for co-hosts Jesse Jane and Kirsten Price.

Like shows taped live on the other side of the hill, Night Calls, which is on the same lot as Spanish-language SiTV, employs a comedian to warm up the audience. This particular comedian, named Chris Pleasant, has a tougher job than his Hollywood counterparts.

First, he has to entertain two sets of people. The onstage audience, which appears on the show when the camera pans around and from whom volunteers are sometimes scooped, and the studio audience, where people like me sit. Both audiences are on the same floor level so Pleasant moved back and forth between us. Elsewhere, there is only one audience on a set of risers. It is much easier that way because there are fewer places for the audience to divert its attention.

Second, though Jane and Price are often very funny, Pleasant was warming up an audience that did not come for comedy.

Pleasant had to move between the two sets of people and often told the same jokes twice. This was bad because he was always within earshot of both groups. When he would return to one set of us, we now recognized his banter as being rehearsed.

Pressed to make us respond, he would comment on how we weren’t responding. That is always really effective. Then he said that we weren’t interacting because we were (mostly) white and we were scared that he would rob us, you know, because he was black.

Somebody behind me said, “I’m sorry we’re so white and you’re so not funny.”

But he was funny; he was just stuck in a bad situation.

Night Calls is kind of a wild show. I’m amazed at what goes on there for the benefit of the live and televised audiences. A man from the onstage audience was de-pantsed and ushered to the stage at the end of the show, where he was ground upon by several strippers, Jane, and Price. At that point the studio audience was ushered out. In addition, we got snacks.

How we white people love our free snacks!

Catalina from (Michigan) is not the same Catalina that was a Max Hardcore staple for a few years, pictured here with Kami Andrews.

Previously: Suddenly suplexing Seka
See also: Playboy, SugarDVD