Work was awesome yesterday, simply because the Funny Bone list was
published and I saw that I was going to be on stage. I had a couple new
jokes I wanted to try out, so I was really excited. Before the show,
John Garrison, Matt Wolff and I went to Starbucks (I didn't buy
anything) to do some writing. During the meeting, I saw the list, and I
was scheduled 7th, which I was good with. But due to the high number of
newbies the list got moved around a bunch and I got put at the very end.
Bright side: I was the "headliner", and maybe Matt Behrens wanted to see if I
could close the show.
Down side: Sometimes the crowd is too busy settling their tab to pay
attention.
Greg Warren was at the show and went up third to last, I only bring it
up because he stopped in the middle of his set to tell a couple to shut
up or leave. I've never seen anything like it, but it was hilarious, to
me at least. The guy who followed was new, and did a good job, and then
it was my turn. Tim Heeley, who was MCing, introduced me as a "brother
of the scalp". I opened with a new quip (n. clever, often sarcastic
remark; a gibe. ) about being single. I also did my skiing jokes and my
bachelor party bit. Sadly, I had to look at my cheat-sheet, but when I
did, I realized I was on my final joke for the set I had prepared, and I
hadn't seen the light yet. So I threw in my pharmacy-job joke. Still no
light. FDA drug testing. Nothing. Tetris. Nada. Phone Sex. Zilch. I knew
I was going over, but the crowd was laughing and I was having so much
fun, I figured that maybe they (the funny bone staff) were seeing what I
could do. Eventually I couldn't think of any other bits to do, so I
closed with my Black-Name joke. As soon as I got home, I tried to upload
the video to the media page, but I didn't get it completed, so I'll try
to do it tonight. Look for it here.