Last night a bunch of people from my work came to the FunnyBone. I don't know most of them as they work in a different department than I do. I did recognize a couple people, but I have never met 90% of them. Yesterday at work, some guy came up and was asking about comedy (and I knew it was coming) and wondered if I would be interested in doing his department's picnic. Imagine, children, families, corporate guidelines (uber clean, I guess) and an outdoor "stage" with (I'm guessing) a terrible PA system. He also kept using the word shtick (which http://www.dictionary.com defines as "A characteristic attribute, talent, or trait that is helpful in securing recognition or attention" or "An entertainment routine or gimmick". I hate that word. It just sounds so hokey or lame. Anyway, not only is the idea of eating it in front of "coworkers" not a terribly thrilling idea, but the guy was offering me work without even seeing my set. I mean I talk about porn and drinking a lot. Not exactly family based. I almost got roped into the same situation for the picnic last year, though I was going to be hosting a karaoke show or something. Thankfully, it fell through.
Anyway, last night's show had a decent sized crowd, I mean the VIP section was pretty full, I'd guess we had over a hundred people, but I'm really bad at guessing numbers... Anyway, Derek, one of the door guys saw my midnight spotlight and requested I do my [animal porn] joke. And I don't think I could do just one porn joke, there wouldn't be enough context to not have a knee-jerk reaction and go "porn is wrong". And I really wanted to work on my dog call back, so I had to do my drinking jokes. So I made a list, pocketed it, and waited for my turn. When the list came out, I was number 8, right after Greg Warren. Greg's very funny and has good stage pressence and for a bit I was nervous that my stage pressence and energy would be a stark contrast to his, but I got on stage and was excited and kind of quick. It felt good, though I didn't look at my stop watch and so I got off a little early (about 45 seconds early). But I split on a good laugh, so I would rather do than that do one more joke, fill up more time and get an average responce. I was on Anyway, you can check out my clip on RooftopComedy. After my set, Rob Durham said that I "followed Greg Warren well" which was a pretty nice compliment.
Before the show (man, if you tried to timeline one of my blogs, I bet it'd be hard, I jump around a lot...) I was at Starbucks. I left work early to go through my audio recorder WAV files on my computer and write down all the premises I had on there. I took them to starbucks and wrote them out in paragraph form, and I think I see potential in a couple, which is exciting.
No more typey typey, you typey typey to me.
I am pushing the morning forward the choice is yours & mine