Thursday night I got to go to Columbia, MO and do a spot light with Dan Cummins and Louis Ramey. Louis is one of my comedic heroes, you can read why here. Dan is an impressive comedian too, he's one of the more creative writers I've met. Matt at the Vu let me do about five and I did well, despite distractions;
-I wasn't on stage Tuesday or Wednesday, so I didn't feel 'fresh'
-I had college friends in the audience.
My set went well, but I closed on my pharmacy-job joke, which isn't all that strong of a closer. I just didn't want to close on Tetris, I think Columbia's seen that one a few times. I looked, but couldn't find any audio from the last time I was there. Come to think of it, I can't find my audio recorder right now I should look for that...
Anyway, Thursday was awesome, I got to share the stage with Louis, I got on stage (in Columbia, which is always a big deal to me) and I had a good set.
Last night I was at the Funny Bone with Janine but the first show was super-packed and so we hung out at Starbucks a bit and then I stayed for the second show, which was also packed. I did get a seat by some people who wouldn't stop talking, but I was able to hear Stewart Huff's set. The midnight show was really good too; but I may be biased since I did a guest set. I watched Chad Huff (who was emceeing) and he seemed really laid back on stage, and I knew Stewart works with a very calm demeaner, so I tried my hand at it. And I really liked it. I thought of the show at the Landing that I emceed, where I just wanted to relate to the audience; I kind of like it. Ricky Gutierrez reminds me a lot of John Morgan; by that I mean the audience loves him. Both Morgan and Gutierrez can go from poop jokes and blue-humor to talking about family and never miss a beat. I would like that ability to relate to the audience. I really want to be able to do that. I mean anyone can talk about relationships, but it has to be hard to expose yourself (not like that!) and really get people to laugh (both with you and at you) and understand who you. Maybe that's why Ricky and John are so popular with crowds and successful. I was looking at the ClustrMap of my blog and I saw that I have new views from Africa and Asia. I'd kind of like someone in Greenland or Iceland to check out the blog, or maybe Irkutst. So if you know anyone, email them a link and say, "Hey, just click on it".