Tonight, Janine Brito called and wanted to know if I was going to the Funny Bone. I had considered it, but was watching Men of Honor and am going to the Bone tomorrow to catch Gabe Kea emceeing, so probably wouldn't have gone without the invite. I'm glad I did go though, because Matt needed an MC and I was at the bar so they let me do it. As far as I'm concerned getting stuff by default is pretty cool (I was my Highschool Salutatorian with a C-average because there were only 2 guys in my class). I had little to no prep time, but went up sans cheat sheet and did my thing. I ended on my PhoneSex joke, which didn't have the kick I really wanted, but I got the intros for Andi, Jeremy and Brett and I got the announcements right. Near the end of the show, Matt asked me to do the Kilo tickets. If you're not familiar it goes like this; The Kilo-Diabetes Foundation was founded to benefit children with Diabetes. The Funny Bone takes donations of a dollar or more as people leave. For every buck you donate you get a ticket to come see a show. 1 dollar=1 ticket. 2 dollars=2 tickets. And so on. I've done the Kilo announcement at Fairview before, and Joey all-but-yelled at me because I wasn't good at it. To be honest I was probably horrible, (but that was a long time ago). Anyway, I was nervous to do it tonight, but got it right and Matt said I did alright. Anyway, that's three nights of emceeing in the past eight days, I think I'm getting better thanks to advice from Jeremy and Matt. One thing I regret is having neither my audio recorder nor my watch with me. I felt kind of naked without them...
The next two weeks are busy with an open mic and a showcase at the Forum, a competition at both the Westport and Springfield Funnybones and the Battle for Independance on July 4th at Laughs. If you have time, come on out to one, a couple or all of the shows.
fact: It says "Marcus" four different places on my business card, weird eh?