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755: F.F.F.F. 2023 - Day Three Report

Friday, April 28th

8:00 Bob Little Open Golf Tournament (see Bruce Trigg to register)

10:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures, shows, and dinner)

10:30 Pat Page Memorial Workshop: Who was Eddie Fechter? (MC: Mike Powers) featuring performers Paul Gertner and Vic Trabucco with Panel Members: Harrison Carroll, Tom Craven, Dick Cook, and Paul Gertner

1:30 4th Show: Magical Moments (MC: Andost) featuring: Rubi Ferez, Satoru Furukawa, Kevin Bethea, Jafo, Daniel Mormina, Matthew Le Mottee, Darong Huang, Martin Braessas, and Francesco Fontanelli

3:30 Lecture #4: Paul Gertner

8:00 5th Show: Friday’s Frolics (MC: Shawn Farquhar) featuriing Marc DeSouza, Michael Ammar, Boris Wild, Andi Gladwin, Rick Wilcox, Will Monroe, Bernardo Sedlacek, and Chris Capehart

10:00 Hospitality Suite opens

12:00 Dealers’ Room closes

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - Marc DeSouza gives “color” as he recaps the Thursday night show with lots of details on who did what.

00:25:53 - Alexandra Duvivier is here as her second 4F convention and tells us why she loves this convention and how it is different from other events.

00:31:58 - Stephen Bargatze will be part of the closing night’s show who, along with Rick Merrill, will wrap up the convention with their topical comedy spoofing events of the weekend.

00:37:10 - Paul Gertner gives a brief recap of his lecture he presented today.

00:44:07 - Howard Hamburg talks about this convention and why he loves it although he attends conventions all over the world.

00:48:14 - This is David Parr’s first 4F convention and fooled Penn & Teller on “Fool Us” and he tells us how he is enjoying this event as a “first timer” plus his experience of being on P&T Fool Us.

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Posted in Convention Report and tagged with FFFF, Obie's 4F Convention, Marc DeSouza, Alexandra Duvivier, Stephen Bargatze, Paul Gertner, David Parr, Howard Hamburg.

April 28, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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