Wednesday, August 31, 2005

I have an alibi

Last night I made the list, which shocked me because I was just on a couple weeks ago, but I'm not going to complain… Moments before the show started, Scott Avery asked me to keep time until he closed down the box office. I sat down at the back table and tried to compose a set list (I wanted to end on my 'new' porn joke, and staring at a cheat sheet helps me remember stuff like that). I wasn't able to study a whole lot or prep myself for the stage (I was on 11th) because when Scott showed up, I ended up sitting with a friend who met me at the show, I didn't want to study in front of them, so I paid attention to the show. My set went pretty well; I went up with confidence and led off with the Ferrari joke adding the phrase "what the crap" which punched my disgust up a bit (later, someone commented on how it was an odd yet effective phrase (my words, not theirs, they were D-runk). I skipped my Lotto tickets joke and Sports and Sex Comparison (which was intended to lead into my porn joke). Instead I asked the crowd if they were drinking, being the 11th comic they had time to drink so they indicated they were quite loudly. I did my I quit drinking joke, which is really 2 or three lines. I'm not sure when they lit me, but I went straight to my "I like porn" joke and when I stepped off stage, my DVR said 4:05 or so. After the show, my friend and I went over and judged the karaoke contest at the BackStreet Jazz and Blues club. Scott Avery, who did Rat's Round and Round won by a landslide thanks to his drunken jump kicks and a considerable amount of vodka.