Written and Contributed by: C.O. Juvie14
 | During this past weekend two of my buddies and I took the Gf's out to "THE ULTIMATE HOCKEY COMEDY SHOW" at the Roxy in Vancouver. It was one of the many comedy shows going on in Vancouver for the Vancouver Comedy Festival. Since this would be my first comedy show I have ever been to, I didn't know what to expect. As we were sitting at our booth waiting for the show to start, I see a man wearing glasses walk by us and I notice that it's Mr. Brian Burke. I point him out to my buddies and we were all hoping that he was one of the guys tonight. |
Well it turns out that he was the host of the show and let me tell you he knows how to tell a story. The first story he told was back in 1991 when he was the assistant GM for Vancouver. This was during the period of the first gulf war. Our beloved Gino Odjick had just won a fight and was headed to the penalty box, when he saw a sign that said "Not even Saddam Hussein can beat Gino" After serving his 5 mins he came back to the bench and takes a seat beside Trevor Linden and asks him, with complete seriousness, "What team does this Hussein guy play for?"
His next story was when he was GM in 1997 and he got a call from the Chief of the Burnaby fire department. The chief was pissed off saying one of Burke's players wouldn't pull over for the fire truck when they were going to a emergency and when they did pass him he gave them the finger. Burke asked him how do you know it was one of my players? The fire chief replied "There aren't many 6 foot 3, 230 lbs, and bald black man with bushy eyebrows driving Cadillac Escalades around here". Burke said that after practice he called Donald Brashear into his office and asked him if anything interesting happened to him on his way to practice at Burnaby 8 rinks? Donald said no. Burke asked again, "So nothing with a fire truck happened?" And then Donald said "Ya these assholes were riding my ass for blocks with there lights and sirens on, and blowing there horn. They finally passed me in the opposite lane and I gave them the finger." Burke said, "Well Brash what if they had been going to your house?" And Donald said, "Oh no Burkie, I live the other way.†Burke’s joke ended with: "I traded him a week later."  | Another one of the comedians was hockey legend Dennis Hull, brother of Bobby and uncle of Brett. This guy is a great character. He took a few cheap shots at his bro about his 7 wives and then went on to tell a story about golfing with his nephew Brett. Brett picked him up and they were headed to one of the nicest golf courses in Michigan. When they were in the parking lot waiting to pull in a spot and young guy in a Porsche cuts in and takes his spot. The guy gets out and says, "You got to be fast to do that." So Brett backs up about 50 feet and guns it at the Porsche in his SUV crushing the back end of the car and turning it into an accordion. He then gets out and says "You got to be rich to do that". |
This show was really blast. The show ended but me and the boys were finishing off our 4th pitcher so we stuck around for a bit when Brian Burke come walking by again. Now that we had had a few, we flag him down and he comes over and shakes all of our hands and we thanked him for all the good work he did with the Canucks. We told him that he has a career in comedy. He laughed and said thanks and then he went on his way.
This was one of the best Saturday nights I have ever had.
JUVIE14 |
