Last night, Scott gave me 7 minutes at the open mic, I only used 5:50, but I was able to try out a couple jokes new to the Bone. I wrote this thing on Dominoes Brownies, which you can read on my myspaceblog, and I tried out my Work is like Prison comparison. My lightening joke worked out alright, though I think a little different setup is needed to really get the joke rolling. You can watch last night's clip on RooftopComedy, the audience was pretty small (I'd say 20 or less), but I had fun with it, and even had a 'conversation' with a guy in the audience during a joke. After each sentence he would reply, for example;
me: I like money.
dude: me too.
me: but money's hard to come by.
dude: yeah it is.
me: that's why I have a job.
dude: I have a job
...and so on.
Again, you can watch the entire exchange on RooftopComedy. Pete Lytle gave me a heads up last night saying that Southbend is in a different time zone, so I should probably leave an hour earlier than I expected. My boss is going to love that news, I'm sure. Probably as much as he loves my blogging on the clock. I got confirmation and some instructions yesterday about Milwaukee, turns out I'm doing the announcements, so I won't have much of a chance to spread the funny to the masses, but it should be a good chance to get that kind of experience. Optimism.
Anyway, I should probably get to work (and by that I mean go to the break room and get some coffee).
He gon' make it into a Benz out of that Datson
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