I didn't make it into the second round of the comedy competition at the Funny Bone tonight. Which is sad, unless you're one of the 10 guys who did (Congratz all, by the way). The show was really good and about everyone was at the top of their game, so it's only a little frustrating to not be among the "winners" or whatever. I enjoyed my set except for a couple things. One, I banged my knee really hard on the rail while Jimmy Rice was MCing. It still kind of hurts. Two, I was really nervous. My leg was shaking a bit while I was on stage. And Three, I could have slowed down. I only planned on doing about 2 minutes (we were given 3) or so (my set list consisted of Jeeves, iPorn, Animal on Animal, Celebate, Email, Scorpion and Motorcycle). I didn't go abnormally fast or anything, but and I would like to have had more control over my rate of speech. My set was good, I got laughs at the appropriate places and other laughs at some of my setups.
Actually you can check out my set on RooftopComedy.com and vote for me to get back back into the contest. You only have a couple of days, so watch the set, and vote if you get 3 minutes.
I tried a couple new things tonight, not bits, but bit-placement. I closed on my motorcycle joke, which has a series of tags at the end, and I opened with my Ask Jeeves joke, which doesn't have much of a setup (I was trying to get an early laugh so I could get the audience's attention right away). I'm happy with my decision, because I think that both jokes are good enough to set at the end/beginning respectively. You can judge for yourself, by going to RooftopComedy.com and voting.