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Saturday, June 14, 2008-2:40 A.M.

I guess I'm not the only one hurting over the Comix Cafe closing it's doors.  Among other entries from other comedians and responses from folks who read my blog, J.J., the owner of the Cafe, sent me this love letter:

I really appreciate your fictional writing skills as well my attorney, who will soon have copy of your slanderous blog.

 

I hope you have alot of leaves. First of all  get the truth straight, you left Ed's club in total chaos. Just ask him.

 

You were a bad manager. you wanted to be a great comic but the truth is your peers are much better and that bother you..>>>.just ask them. Ralph get out of comedy. Go back too asian noodle as a bartender. You frist have too except your limitations. Slandering me will not help you become a better comic or change your character.

 

My IRS returns show different then what you stated. See you in count you can take that to the leave pile .

 

Will see you at comic cafe .....>>>soon right???

 

Well, I hate to just ignore such a heartfelt missive, so I responded:

 

Thanks JJ.  I went back and read what I wrote, and everything I wrote was either truth that I can document, get others to witness to, or is my opinion and stated as such.

 

I feel perfectly comfortable with you wanting to sue me for slander as I'm sure you have no case.  If you want to go through the legal somersaults, I'll be happy to go along.

 

In the meantime, this piece of fiction you just sent me is worthwhile to be reproduced, don't you think?

 

Ralph

 

p.s.  How could you misspell the name of your own club "comic cafe" at the very end?

 

Some clarifications: "asian noodle" is a restaurant called Aja Noodle Company that I bartended lunches at early on in my road comedy career.  I left there after a year or two, after I had established myself with enough booking agents to fill my schedule.

 

"I left Ed's club in total chaos, just ask him."  My conversations with Ed within the last six months revealed otherwise, unless he was just being nice to me, in which case, shame on you, Ed.

 

I'm a bad comic, but I've had all of two weeks off since my daughter was born, four years ago?  I stand by my statement that J.J. doesn't know anything about comedy.

 

And finally, if spelling is any indication, then I think those IRS returns were filled out in crayon.

 

Oh, and before I forget....you want your lawyer to sue me for slander?  Doesn't that poor guy have enough to do?

 

Ralph Tetta

Rochester, NY