Tonight I went to Brentwood to the Double D Lounge for Nick Cusamano's open mic. I arrived, and Mark Morfey was there and a bit later Clayton Champagne showed up. I don't remember what time we started, Nick did 5 to 7, I ended up doing (accoring to my DVR) 18 minutes. It wasn't all "prepared" material, I bantered a bit with the audience a bit, but I felt comfortable the whole time, which was really cool, because that's probably the longest I've been on stage on purpose. The audience consisted of 5 to 10 people (some people drifted in and out of the room) but they paid attention the whole time, which was cool. Two guys kept trying to give their input (it wasn't necessarily heckling, because they wanted to help or something) and I learned something very cool (to me). Talk over them. I would deliver a punch line, and these guys would try to tag my joke, but allowing them to do that would throw the timing for my tag, so I just talked over them. And it worked. I had a total blast on stage and it's 10:30ish and I'm going to see if Tivo grabbed My Name is Earl and the Office, maybe watch them and then sleep. Woot!
Oh yeah, Clayton asked me to run the Bistro Monday, which is extremely flattering and I'm pretty excited. You should come out and watch/do some time. It'll be neat.
Faster than the speeding light she's flying,
Trying to remember where it all began
I'm not going to be at the Double D next week as I'm going to Springfield, MO, and the week after that I'm going to Colorado to relive my skiing jokes.
Just email me, already.