FestivALL Charleston and the gazz just made a pretty foolish booking.

The citywide arts and cultural event, held June 23 to 25 in venues across Charleston, has added Drew the Dramatic Fool to a growing lineup of performers and events. But the Dramatic Fool will also make a special appearance at a 'Gazz Gathering & FestivALL Sampler,' from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, June 22, on the historic Scottish Rite Temple stage at 406 Capitol St.

He'll perform his one-man play, "Help! Help! I Know This Title is Long, But Somebody's Trying to Kill Me!" in which Drew is the only member of a vaudevillian stage show left un-deceased. In true "show-must-go-on" fashion, he tries to avoid the same fate by picking up the slack left by all his dearly departed counterparts. The Dramatic Fool (otherwise known as Drew Richardson) draws from the storied tradition of great clowns, fools and funnymen and women, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, to the Three Stooges and Lucille Ball (in her famous candy factory TV episode).

The Gazz/FestivALL evening will begin with a cash bar in the Scottish Rite ballroom, followed by a short opening comedy act by Dave Stacy. A Charleston insurance salesman by day, Stacy was recently filmed as part of the Travel Channel show "This Job's a Trip," in which an average person is thrust into the trials and tribulations of a completely different job. Stacy was given a five-minute comedy set this past February on a sold-out Saturday night at the famed Los Angeles comedy club The Improv, where Drew Carey, Jay Leno, Daman Wayans and manyotre top comedy names perform. The program will screen later that night on the cable channel. Gazz editor Douglas Imbrogno will briefly interview Stacy about an experience Stacy describes as alternately terrifying and exhilarating.

(You may recall that Stacy was featured last year on "Super Size Me" filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" FX cable program, in which he lived for a month in one of the largest and densest Muslim communities in America.)

Tickets to the Gazz Gathering and FestivALL Sampler cost $10 and are available by calling 348-3017 and at the door. There'll be an after-gathering at Vandalia Lounge, 212 Hale St., where audience members can get foolish themselves.

P.S. Last year's pre-Festivall gazz event was also a launch party for the gazz, which was born June 23, 2005. The event featured Charleston native Ann Magnuson, in an offbeat musical performance piece. Take a look at the gazz Snapshow of that event and you'll also get a taste of the funky (good funky) environs of the Scottish Rite building.