Erik Kabik/erikkabik.com
Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 | 4:06 p.m.
The Kats Report Bureau at this writing is what we call The Deck at SBP, or my auxiliary home office at my downtown residence, which I have ironically nicknamed the Swinging Bachelor Pad.
This reference is a nod to The Festrunk Brothers as portrayed by Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin in the early days of “Saturday Night Live.”
As Yortuk (played by Aykroyd) said to Jorge (Martin), “Our swinging bachelor pad is certainly messed around! We must straighten up because soon are the foxes!”
This is the moment we remind that Martin will be joined by Martin (Short) on March 6 at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
The show is titled “An Evening You Will Forget For the Rest of Your Life” and is to be an onstage back-and-forth as Martin and Short recount the highlights of their careers.
The Steep Canyon Rangers, the bluegrass banjo band Martin joined several years ago for intermittent performances, is the musical guest.
In a fascinating development, Martin made a return to standup after a 35-year absence when he opened for Jerry Seinfeld on Thursday at New York’s Beacon Theater. Martin’s last formal standup show was at the Riviera.
He has edged toward comedy in his Steep Canyon Rangers shows (which have played at the Mirage and Reynolds Hall at the Smith Center here), and his onstage-interview appearance with Short in November 2014 at Alex Theater in Glendale, Calif., also was laden with ad-libbed comic commentary.
So line it up: Seinfeld is a Colosseum regular. Martin is at the Colosseum for the first time in March and has just returned to the stage in a purely standup format.
Someone at AEG Live and Caesars Palace has to have already had the idea of booking him there. We’ll be watching the March 6 show with great interest, along with a very tall comic who already does business on the Strip.
Transport yourself to the opulent and excessive Roman Empire at Caesars Palace. But the ever-changing Caesars Palace is far from ancient. The hotel and casino is constantly raising the bar for what visitors can expect in a Vegas resort experience.
Caesars Palace features 3,348 rooms and suites in five towers, including the new luxury boutique Nobu Hotel and Restaurant, which opened Feb. 4, 2013, in the totally remodeled Centurian Tower. Caesars features 129,000 square feet of gaming space, including the Strip’s largest poker room and a 250-seat sports book. Other amenities include about two dozen restaurants, a four-level shopping mall, four pools, a spa, Pure and Poetry nightclubs and Pussycat Dolls.
Dining options include restaurants from world-renown chefs Guy Savoy, Wolfgang Puck, Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay and, on Feb. 4, 2013, Nobu Matsuhisa.
You never know what characters you’ll run into at Caesars with regular performers like Jerry Seinfeld, Bette Midler, Elton John and maybe even the emperor himself.
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