Last night, as I was riding the MetroLink to the Landing, 2 things happened.
1) I came up with a premise about riding the Metro
2) I got stopped by Metro security because I didn’t Validate my ticket stub.
Here's how it went down; when I parked at the N. Hanley lot, I had a little trouble getting my ticket and the train pulled up, so I rushed over. I passed a security guard and I indicated that I couldn't validate my ticket and still catch the train. He gave me a "go ahead" gesture and so I boarded the train. I explained this, politely I should add, to the fat security guards who were grilling me at the Central West End stop. They ended up writing me a warning, but I had to catch the next train to the Landing.
Anyway, when I got to LL, I ran my Metro premise by Mikey Manker. Originally I planned the bit to use the rule of three, where the examples are progressively crazier and crazier. Like Lvl 1 Crazy, Lvl 2 Crazy, Lvl 3 Crazy. Mikey's suggestion, however was like Lvl 9 Crazy, but it was too funny (to me) to pass up. I actually did the joke last night (and it worked fairly well) but I only had two examples, which were like Lvl 1 then BOOM LVL 9!!! I did some of my roommate jokes because I need to practice them and my roomie is moving out this month. Mikey also asked me to record and email him his set, which I did.
When we started, the crowd was all comics (about 6 or 8 of us) and two female audience members. During my set, some people came in, but I kept to a 4-5 minute set and got off. Everyone who performed while I was there kept it brief, (it's really hard to do extended sets in front of a single-digit sized audience). My ride back was uneventful and I ended up getting a #11 from McDonald's before I uploaded my audio and Mikey's audio from the show and went to bed.