It's about 10:43 pm on Tuesday, and normally I would be asleep by now, but tonight was freakin' awesome. Easily one of the best open mics I've been to in a while. Why? People did their time. During the pre-show meeting Scott Avery made it pretty clear that people needed to do their 4 minutes and no more or they wouldn't be getting back on stage very soon. Just before the show started, Keith Cissell asked if I wanted to keep time. Heck yeah I did. Keeping time was pretty funny too, because after Scott's speech, people would see the 3 minute light (signifying the comedian had about a minute left) and would maybe do another 30 seconds. Arvin Mitchell had one of the best reactions to the 'final' light, he was just starting a joke and said something like "Ahh, hell no, I ain't even gonna do that joke, they're giving me the light". My set was a lot of fun, I did almost all my Holiday material, including the new 12 Guage Thanksgiving joke, which didn't hit as well on stage as it does when I tell it in person (I guess I should be a little more conversational (I'm working on it) on stage). I also did my Women/Math joke, and changed it's leadout a bit. Tom Milster says he likes the old way I did it better, but the joke's so new, I really don't know what that way is/was. Anyway, my time on stage was 3:48 and I had to rush and cut part of my first porn joke to get off stage in time (I had my cellphone (which I was using as a stopwatch) on me). Anyway, we got out of the show around 9:30 and I made it home to watch a Tivo'd episode of the Comedians of Comedy (which Tom Milster told me about) and I have to say I love Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt even more now. Something about seeing what I would call living legends discussing getting better, having problems working with the crowd, and having self-esteem issues really makes me have hope that I'm not wasting my time. I've only caught two episodes of the show, and those four already seem so much more human than I thought possible; I'd probably sell my soul to be able to meet them (but only if I would be guaranteed I wouldn't sound like some annoying fanboy). Anyway, you should check out the show, there's some info about the show on Comedy Central's website.
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Then we got nothin' to lose
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It's the music that we choose (Oh Yeah)