My 50th post!
I've only been to Fairview Heights a handful of times, and the majority of the times were not too great... The first time I went on a Monday, and they had cancelled the show due to lack of audience. The second time was for the Club Pick portion of the Las Vegas Comedy Compitition; that was a fun night. On the next day, I drove out to compete in the Las Vegas Comedy Compitition and I was the first performer on stage that morning (that's not exactly pleasant). The last time I was at the Fairview Heights Funny Bone, I did a spot light while Kevin Patterson was MC-ing. Frankly I was WAY TOO nervous and I wasn't too good; also my spotlight was on a wednedsay, notoriously the worst day of the week for comedy. Now, having set the stage for what to expect for my Wednesday show at Fairviwe last night, I was blown away when I walked in the door. There were AT LEAST 1 hundred people there an hour before the show. And MORE kept coming in. I started chugging the coffee and getting ready, and if I do say so myself, I did well. I didn't screw up the announcements (guys from Westport stressed this) and I was on stage for about 10 minutes up front (including an announcement or two) so I guess I have about 10 minutes of material. Anyway, last night was awesome. Karith Foster featured, and Ron Morey headlined, and both were super nice and I am sure I'll enjoy working with them for the rest of the week.
Real Quick, I want to mention some advice I got this week; Chad Huff said it was the best advice he'd ever gotten, and I'd have to aggree. Simply what he told me about comedy was "don't look at it like a job".