Wednesday! Woo! Yeah. Man am I tired. I was up until midnight last night, which is far to late for an old man like me. Before I talk about last night, let's start at the begining of the week, or rather the end of last week.
Saturday:
John Garrison and I went over to the Fairview Heights Funny Bone Saturday night to check out the club picks for the Las Vegas Comedy Festival contest. Jimmy Rice competed against a bunch of non St. Louis comedians. He did extremely well, however, Jim Short ended up winning the coveted free trip to Vegas. The rest of the show was good, and I ate the first fast food I've had in almost a month. Mmmm Chilitos (that's a chili cheese burrito for you non Taco Bell freaks).
Sunday:
I woke up at 6:30am to go BACK to Fairview Heights for the 'amateur' portion of the Vegas competition. I was the first comic to get on stage, which sucks, but what can you do? I talked to Brett, who's the asst. manager at the Fairview Bone and he liked my set and said if I call up I can probably get a SpotLight on a slower night (Thursday or Sunday). That's awesome. I ate at McD's with Paul Harris and took a four hour nap at home.
Tuesday:
Was at the Funny Bone, Westport-style, and Kevin Patterson told me I look like Gollum from the Lord of the Rings movies. I said I need to acknowledge that on stage within my first 10 second on stage or so, he said it would be a good "throw away line". I worked for the rest of the show to find a way to use it, and came up with a decent idea that utalizes my resemblance to Moby and slides into my set about my nephew (Pokémon and Air Hockey).
Wednesday:
At the Forum, we had a sparce crowd (less than 30 or so) and only 11 comics. Jim Stout announced some new rules that will serve as incintives for comics to bring people. Since I don't know any non-comics, I'm probably going to have to pay to work at the Forum. Hey, if it's good enough for the California Guitar Trio, it's good enough for me.
At the Red Sea, Jeremy Essig, Matt Wolff and Chad Huff were waiting to go on, and Gabriel Kea had already gotten on stage when I showed up. I did pretty much the same set as the Forum, which included my new Gollum stuff, some jokes about my college spanish class with Señora Pringle at CC, some drinking jokes and I think I threw in Phone Sex somewhere in there. I took notes up this time, because I wanted to make sure I worked on the new stuff.