Adam let me go on first tonight, which was really cool. He checked out the Westport Tuesday and said he liked it, and in a spirit of moving the show along, he didn't do much time at the front of the show. So I got to go up in front of a "cold" or semi cold audience. Which I love. Honestly I love being one of the first ones up; I guess I'm a masochist or something, but the challenge of seeing if I can make people laugh is very, I don't know, good. Fun. Something. My set was composed of my [iporn] [endorsements] [april fools wedding] [nervous] [math] [racism 2k6] and [the joke] jokes. John Garrison followed me and did his (I don't know how he refers to it) 'bicycle closer'. I hadn't done my math joke in a while and I wanted to make sure I wasn't getting too close to his joke with mine. He said it was close and when I offered to work on re-wording my bit, he was cool and appreciative. Anyway, on the drive home I think I got the new wording, but it'll take a couple runs to make sure (it's hard to relearn how to tell a joke).
One thing I'm learning about "the joke" is that I shouldn't just drop the n-word and run off stage. Even though I feel I qualify/legitimize my use of the word, it kind of needs some further explanation. I like it when comics have the "I told that joke a while back" addition to a joke. Like; "I told that joke at a clown convention" because the comic is basically saying, "look, I've probably made people angrier at that joke than you are now" and then they make a joke out of it. I do that sometimes with my [one legged skier] bit, but the addition turns me into an even bigger jerk (because then I make fun of a second one-legged person). Anyway, it's super late and I need to sleep; one thing I finally got the logo for the webring that I mentioned a while back up and a page designed around it. It'd be cool if people wanted in, all I ask if you have a website or a blog and you put the logo (and link) on your front page (not on some links page buried in your site). Special thanks to Katie where I work for designing the logo. That's all I got. Night-night.
And all these guys I think they wanna fight me
And all these girls I know that they don't like me
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