Recently, we came across a web site that specializes in booking famous musical and comedy acts for college concerts. It was kind of interesting seeing what kind of prices these guys could charge. For instance, ex-Saturday Night Live member Dennis Miller charges $50,000 for a performance. But ex-SNL member Victoria Jackson is a bargain at only $5,000. (Although to be fair, I hear the Dennis Miller performance comes with several hundred pages of reference material, so that you can understand his jokes.)

Anyway, we thought we'd do a little comparison shopping by sizing up these performance fees with some other items on our Christmas list. See if you can figure out which costs more.

To help you out, I'll mention that most of the acts fall into the $2,500 to $75,000 range. I think that's only the band's fee, and doesn't include things like lighting, a sound system, stadium rentals, and, of course, the fog machines.

Okay, ready? Which costs more...

	Orange-haired pop singer Vitamin C		A year's supply (3-a-day) of Orange Berry Blitz smoothies from Jamba Juice?
	--Pick one-- Vitamin C Smoothies

	The comedy-magician duo Penn and Teller		A high end 18-karat-gold Cross pen and an Automatic Teller Machine?
	--Pick one-- Penn and Teller Pen and Teller Machine

	Drops of Jupiter band Train		The largest exhibit available at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum?
	--Pick one-- Train Train exhibit

	Early new-wave band The B-52s		One Desert Storm B-52 anti-tank bomb, The Gator?
	--Pick one-- The B-52s The Gator bomb

	The always-entertaining Bloodhound Gang		Purchasing a gang (20) of Bloodhounds from a professional breeder?
	--Pick one-- Bloodhound Gang 20 Bloodhounds

	Sniglets inventor Rich Hall		The 20-volume set of The Oxford English Dictionary?
	--Pick one-- Rich Hall The OED

	A Merchant-less 10,000 Maniacs		1,000 hours of psychiatric therapy?
	--Pick one-- 10,000 Maniacs Therapy

	Singer and poet Jewel		A 2-karat, ideal-cut, F-color, internally-flawless round diamond?
	--Pick one-- Jewel 2-karat high-quality diamond

	Save Tonight singer Eagle Eye Cherry		Killing a federally-protected Bald Eagle (first time offense)?
	--Pick one-- Eagle Eye Cherry Killing an eagle

	Getting No Doubt, Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Barenaked Ladies to perform in one giant concert every single day for the month of October		Giving a severance package to your company's CFO even though he's under criminal investigation for fraud?
	--Pick one-- Giant mega-concert Severance package