Comedian Dave "Gruber" Allen knows a good database when he sees one.

Allen opened the Nickel Creek show at Roanoke's Jefferson Center last night with his stand-up act. At one point, my fellow Roanoke Times staffer Christina Rogers reports, he mentioned that Tuesday is election day, and gave a shout out to our voting database.

This teriffic little tool allows you to enter your address to find out where your polling place is, and also tells you exactly what's on the ballot for you. It was put together by RT web producer Meg Martin and Luda Nichols and Dana Rose Bailey in our online IT department. Very handy stuff.

And apparently fully-appreciated by Allen. Yeah, but who's he?

From Tad Dickens' review of the show in Tuesday's Roanoke Times:

He played guidance counselor Jeff Rosso on the lamented "Freaks and Geeks," and is the Naked Trucker on "The Naked Trucker and T-Bones" show. Here, he played another character: Todd Carlin, who will soon be seen in the movie "Largo," according to imdb.com. That movie, inspired by a favorite Nickel Creek haunt, the Los Angeles dinner, music and comedy club Largo, will also feature the band.

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