text: What The FuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucknnI was stonecold sober last night I SWEAR I went to see George Wallace expecting a middleoftheroad Vegas standup show Some laffs some audience participation whatever What do you expect for free tickets ya knownnWhat I got was about minutes of a cherubic relic in a pimp suit mumbling slurring and stumbling through a bunch of dusty oneliners nsometimes his delivery was so bad I could not understand what he was saying There were a few jokes in really bad taste though about which he was totally unapologeticso I did laugh at thosennBut then the show got WEIRD AS FUCKnnAs one of the other reviewers mentioned the audience is mostly middleaged black people Now I have seen Madea and Coming to America and all those movies that end with church scenes featuring gospel singers clapping and throwing up their hands and singing O Happy Day and shit like that I thought it was some bullshit racist Hollywood stereotypennBut I am here to tell you at end of his show on a Wednesday night in Vegas George Wallace asked all the ministers in the house to stand up astonishingly there were or of them in there that night so they all got up and passed the mic around saying their names where they were from and what church they preached atThe First African Episcopalian Tabernacle Church of God in Christ stuff like that WTF nnNow George Wallace cued some s gospel music and handed the mic around again This one guy down front started belting away in a majestic baritone somehow knowing all the words without a problem Was he a plant Or do all ministers just know these songs and happen to frequent the George Wallace show other reviewers here describe this same thing going down nnNext he invited another one of the ministers this big spikyhaired woman onstage He told her if she could sing this next track and really kill it he would match all the money people in the audience threw at her WTF He did not say anything about it going to her church I guess she just got to keep the cashn nSo he cued up another obscure gospel track and she took the mic and started DOMINATING that song I thought for sure she must be a plant she would been sitting in a booth with a bunch of much younger guys who had raised their hands earlier when Wallace asked if anyone was from Detroit but she said she was from Hendersonplus they did not react like friends would when she was pulled up onstage Definitely seemed plantynnBut if that is the case then what a scam Because after she belted a verse or two people in the audience started getting up and throwing cash at her They came from all over the theater the back sides front and even my friend went up and gave her so I know the money was not all fake People were standing up in the aisles waving their hands in the air like on those creepy megachurch broadcasts singing along and praising Jesus Did I mention this was a Wednesday night in Vegas and most of them were drinking Mai Tais and shit WTFnnIf this lady was really a plant she has a pretty sweet gig going there she probably made about for her impromptu performance which I assume she repeated the following nightand the following night George Wallace said he would match the money after the show he said Come see me and I will give you Hmmm nnNow that I think about itthe theater was only about a third full and as mentioned my friends and I had gotten free tickets so who knows how many other comps were in there He is probably not making much money since he spent a good portion of the show hawking his merch he told people over and over to be sure and buy one of his signature I Be Thinkin hats after the show which were normally but this night only just for us he was marking them down to He also pimped his package which included CDs DVDs tshirts and keychains nnIt came off as kind of swapmeetish and pretty desperateso that makes me wonder is he splitting the take with this planted gospel singernnEither way even if she was for real that is pretty fucking weird too I mean these people were throwing money at her like it was the Spearmint Rhino nnWEIRD show I would recommend scoring free tix somewhere then eating mushrooms min before it startsnnAnd if you do be sure to let me know if the same lady gets up and sings She looked like a fat Fantasia Barrino with short spiky hair and a toothy smile