Last night at the Funny Bone I tried a culmination of almost all the new jokes I've written in the past three months; I did Halloween, Tease, Ferrari/Carolla, Internet Friend, Porn1 and closed on Porn2 (I'm putting those there for my benefit, incase you don't know what they mean). I went up about 11th, which is the latest I've been up in quite some time, and I am very happy because I didn't have to use the cheat sheet I took up on stage. However, I did go over time a bit, (4:25 according to the DVR) which I don't think has happened in a while. I tried the new porno joke (called Porn2 above) which I actually posted yesterday. I think I rushed it because I knew I was going over; I really like it, and since it's not graphic, I think I can get away with it and still be considered a clean (PG13) comic. I realize pornography is not exactly a "clean" subject, but I like seeing what I can get away with, and I've already got clean porn, bestiality and cock-fighting jokes. I would really like to be a dirtier "clean" comic and try to push the envelope, but at this stage of the game, I'm not sure if anyone would realistically notice. After me was a guy from New York who said I looked like the Yellow Guy from Sin City. He wasn't the first to say that; which is kind of depressing. Other comics have said I look like Gollum from Lord of the Rings. I just can't get a break, I guess... being compared to two of the ugliest movie characters since that guy, Vigo, from Ghost Busters II.
A note off topic for a sec, I mentioned the other day how I read Essig and Warren's blogs; I was on Andi Smith's website and reading her short stories, which she describes as bits that never made it on stage, which is where I got the gumption to try blogging the porn joke below. I really wish I would write text funny, where the words of a joke or story are chosen so well that you the humor isn't lost. Maybe adding a bits every once in a while will help with that. That's the same reason I started the Bucket of Fishcomic, to try to learn how to write in a three-cell format. We'll see how I do.
And if words were wisdom I'd be talking Even more