I didn’t have a chance to get on the internet after work last night so I didn’t have a chance to write about Wednesday’s Improv Jam at Laughs on the Landing. Like last week, there were way more improvers than audience members, but we had more improvers so I didn’t have to participate as much. I’m really enjoying the improve, I just don’t want to “hog the stage” and since I’m not as polished as some of the others, I don’t want to annoy people by throwing them off. Mikey Manker showed up a bit of the way through, and during a couple of exercises/games he would pull me on stage; which circumvented the me-hogging-the-stage theory.
Last night I was at Laughs again, for their open mic. I went up about 9th, and the audience wasn’t real pumped up. Mikey and Kevin went before me and had good sets though, so that helped me out considerably, especially since I was trying a bunch of new stuff. The audience was pretty responsive to my set; I opened up talking about the Christmas party at my new job, and how we were allowed to drink on the clock for about five hours. I told the story about how a booker thought I was black (because of my name) and the story about me getting “cigarette-raped”. I really wanted to work on my Disney stuff, so I did my skiing material (and since it was cold, it kind of fit it) to serve as a lead-in. The blind-skier joke got an almost-applause-break. I say almost because it wasn’t during one of my “final” punch lines, it was right after I said “the next thing you know, I’m going down hill, with no one around, yelling out ‘DARIN! THIS ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE”. I just thought of the “this isn’t funny anymore” line on stage last night. I like it and I think I’ll keep it. Sadly I didn’t get the set on video or voice-recorder. I thought about taking my camera, but didn’t want to mess around with it. I wish I would have because I like to know how I did some of the new jokes/bits.
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