Last night I was at the Laughs on the Landing Improv Jam; the show started at 8:00 instead of 9:00 and I (and a few others) was (were) hoping it would still run until about midnight. We got done at about twenty after eleven, but the show was really good and I had a ton of fun. One of my "characters" wasn't as "good" as i had hoped; I started a scene where coffee (I think) was the theme and tried to appear jittery and jonesing for caffeine. I had some other good scenes, but you always concentrate on the ones that didn't go as well as planned.
Today, Janine and I drove to Milwaukee to work the week at JD's Comedy Cafe. The drive in was alright, and only took about six hours. We got to the condo and met Hector Rezzano who was going to headline tonight since Joey Kola wouldn't be in until tomorrow, and was going to feature the rest of the week. We got settled in, grabbed some groceries and headed over to the club. Somehow I though we were going over at 6:40 (more than an hour before the show) but we ended up there at 5:40. Eventually, we were briefed on what was going on and how much time we were supposed to do. It was Janine, myself, a Milwaukee native, James Berry, whom I've performed with here before. Jeff LeFleur and Tony Miller were co-featuring. Janine did really well with the announcements (there were a ton of them) and did five minutes (which was good as well). James went up and then I went up to do 15 minutes. I had some trouble getting my stop watch started, and I blanked once or twice on stage (but it was in the middle of a chuck so I had time to plan out my next bit or bits. I had to look at my cheat sheet once, which bugs me, because I didn't need it in Mason City. Admittedly, I was really nervous tonight. After my set, JD asked that I clean up my set a bit (The "bloody mess" line that I closed on got a pretty big groan) for the holidays. I think he was talking about that, as the pornographic material I did was pretty well received.
After the show, JD took us out to Pitches, a restaurant that stays open for him on Thursdays. He fed all the comics (steak and shrimp) and the food was amazing. I didn't finish my steak (I was unable to last time here also) but I got a doggie bag and it will make for a great lunch tomorrow. It's 12:45am and I'm going to bed. I will cut and paste this in tomorrow.Check out my MySpace blog for jokes on which I'm working.
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