Last night I was slated to go up third at the Funny Bone. I've not been up that early at the Bone in a while; usually I'm around the middle to end of the show. It makes no difference to me, except I had some coworkers coming and I wanted them to catch my set. I took my camera last night and actually had it set up. I didn't recognize the guy who went up before me, and he seemed a little nervous. He blanked and bailed early and Arvin Mitchell went up and did some time between the other guy and me (like a good MC should) to get the crowd back to paying attention. This will probably sound bad or mean, but I love following guys who eat it. I don't know why I think I just love the challenge of getting the crowd back on my side; it's like the check-drop; it's a hard position to be in, and if you do well, that says something. Then again, I'm probably just crazy. I felt like I had a great energy (at least on the inside) last night. I was super excited to go up; and when I got on stage, my holiday jokes did well. I need to tighten up my Christmas Air Hockey joke, it needs a cleaner punch at the end, as does my 12-gauge thanksgiving joke. My Easter/Bachelor party got a great response last night, and I think it was because I accidentally delivered it wrong. Usually I say "table or stage", but last night I said "stage, they call it a table, but we know what's up" or something like that. Anyway, I like that way better. I wanted to close on my new drinking endorsements joke, but I had a little extra time left so I ended did my black-out joke (segue time!). I talked to Janine Brito after my set, and she said she liked my endorsements joke, but that it might work better with a rule of three punch instead of the 1-2 punch. I'm really excited about that joke because I've only done it twice and it seems like it works and it's already growing.
Hush, when the boss is talkin'
Lay down gats and get your weak knees walkin'
You ain't allowed to speak 'cause you've reached your peak
The elite don't get with the weak