I guess the root of my bitterness is that I feel like I am trying hard; but I also feel like I don't have time to try hardER. With a roommate, a job, a new condo, and a severe addiction to video games and cartoons, sometimes I just don't feel like I have anymore time. There are shows other times during the week, so say other comics I talk with, maybe I should just make some sacrafices and take the advice Chad Huff gave me. He said it was the best advice he had ever heard, "Don't think of comedy as a job".
Back to the Forum, last night Monray Griffen showed up, and while on stage he depantsed and did 80% or more of his time with his pants around his ankles. With this act he showed the crowd that he was going to be presenting some "shocking" or different ideas. So the rest of his set, people weren't as surprised when he would say something graphic or bizarre. Because they weren't so shocked, I think they were more prone to laugh. Then again, they may have just been laughing at the fact that he was in his boxers on stage. Just a side note, the girls in the front row faced the floor and the back of the club for the rest of his set.
The Red Sea was normal this week; small crowd, I ended up doing my set to one dude in the front row. I got to work on the wording of some of my jokes, but I didn't get the honest reaction I wanted, because of the small crowd theory. I was up until midnight, but surprisingly I am not that tired today.