Comedy show gives Oklahoma State Fair a Western flair

Instead, sit down and enjoy the silly jokes, gags and enough misfired gunshots to keep you laughing as Hopalong and Leon fight Bad Bob and his baby brother, Bubba Bob, in the cornball comedy shown at different times throughout the day. It's performed for all ages in the Centennial Frontier Experience at State Fair Park and rated "R," for "ridiculous," according to the words of the introductory song.

"You can think the Three Stooges dressed up like cowboys," said one of the actors, Mike Lee, who plays the sheriff's deputy.

For Lee, playing at the Oklahoma State Fair is coming home to where he got started in the entertainment world. He graduated from Putnam City West High School in 1998 and then Oklahoma City University in 2002 with a degree in theater and a minor in mass communication.

Lee, 31, now lives in Winter Haven, Fla., where he is entertainment supervisor for Nickelodeon Suites Resort, which has a full studio for performances at the resort based on the network's shows. There he manages actors and shows centered around characters like "SpongeBob SquarePants" or "Dora the Explorer," both Nick Jr. staples.

But for two weeks during the Oklahoma State Fair, he's under contract again with the company that first hired him during college — West Texas Productions — as part of the Wild West show cast. He helped write the comedy show along with the rest of the cast, and the group has performed it at fairs, parks and even Donald Trump's birthday party, he said.