Last night I was on stage for the first time in about two weeks. I skipped last week's show on the landing to watch Mike Birbiglia at the Westport Bone. My show with Tom Milster at Bel Air Bowl was canceled, and Maggie O'Briens started too late for me to participate. No one told me the bowling alley show was canceled, probably because no one knew. When I arrived at Bel Air Bowl, I walked to the lounge where I saw some sort of Rotary thing going on. Not wanting to disturb the group, I went back to my car to take a nap. At one point, I called the bowling alley and asked if they had any comedy going on tonight. They said "no", hmm, thanks for the update. Eventually Tom showed up and we hung out in the bowling alley waiting in case anyone showed up (like Stevie P or Brandan from the last one) so we could tell them it was canceled. No one did. Afterwards I went over to Maggie O'Briens and hung out for a bit. The group there wanted to wait for the ball game to end, but I wanted to go to bed, so I split. I kind of have issues with performing in front of a crowd. It's one thing if people COME to see a comedy show, like an open mic or an actual show. But to hole-up in someone's bar and all-but-force them to watch/listen to comedy can be annoying. Especially if that someone is already drunk, coming from a baseball game, and just wanting to drink more.
As for last night, I had three friends show up, Tim Brown and Dorinda (Nordeen) Staton. Tim was my RA in college, and Dori and I were RAs together. Dori also brought her husband, Jeremy. I had a cheat sheet ready to go on the stool because I wanted to try a couple new dating jokes, but I never used it (nice!). I also feel that I was WAY more conversational with my tone and related well to the audience.