John Cantu was buried in San Francisco’s only
remaining cemetery, Friday, 5/16/03. He was honored
by many in the speaking and comedy community as well
as his family.

I learned a lot from John. How to write comedy, how
to perform comedy and how to produce comedy. I used
that last skill to throw a ‘final open-mike’ for John.


As Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer, said in
his front page article Saturday, “Eulogists got
exactly 2 ˝ minutes to tell mourners what a great
fellow John Cantu was, before a man with a flashlight
began shining it in their eyes. That's the way Cantu,
the stopwatch-toting impresario of open-mike stand-up
comedy in San Francisco, would have wanted it.”

And so he would.

If you want to read the review of the funeral (only
John would wind up with a review of his funeral.)

<a href="
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/17/MN1\
87590.DTL#sections
"> SF Chronicle article.

For those who missed the service, didn't get a
souvenir or wish to make a donation to Cantu, then
HumorMall.com is offering the same item as featured in
the SF Chronicle front page article

<a href=" http://www.HumorMall.com#souvenir “> John
Cantu Memorial/Funeral commemorative photo and SF
Chronicle obituary

Sorry if you get multiple emails. I went through
John's Yahoo Groups list and sent this to all of them.

Susan C.


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