This weekend I emceed at Laughs on the Landing. Friday's show had a fair-sized audience. Clayton Champagne was featuring for Billy Rae Bauer and Nikki Glazer did a guest set. My set was alright, but I didn't falter while doing the announcements and that is a major victory in my book. Saturday's show was awesome and I felt like I completely lit the stage on fire. Mike Howington did well during his guest set and Clayton Champagne had a really good set except for a drunk jerk in the front row who had to make a phone call during the show. Clayton stopped his set and started messing with the guy, who didn't really appreciate it. I had to talk to the guy to make sure he didn't repeat the call. Apparently that guy was calling to check on his son. Besides he was helping the show, and if Clayton messes with him, he was going to mess with Clayton, especially since that guy is really funny and none of the performers so far were good anyway. At this point, a very ugly old and fat woman got out of her seat in this guy's row and sat down. She politely told me that if there was a problem, they could get their money back and leave. I was just finishing up with the other dude, so I didn't do much to disagree with her. Aside from that little incident, the show was cool.
Near the end of it, Ray (a bartender at Laughs) and Charles (the owner) asked that I "steamroll" into the Midnight Special (the extended-set show featuring local open mic-ers). I brought up Josh Arnold who hosted and he took the show from there. I ended up closing out the Special, and my set was alright, not the best. But since I'm trying to be more optimistic, I'm chalking it up in the "win" column because I figured out how to re-set my Black-name joke. There were a couple of black guys in the audience, and they really liked the joke, so I'm pretty excited about that. One weird part is there was a blind guy in the audience first show and he loved my blind skier joke. Yay me.