Not on the menu

The Funnybone had it’s Christmas/Holiday staff party last night; so there wasn’t an open mic. So Nikki, Gabe, Clayton, Janine and I went to Novak’s, a gay bar on Manchester a little east of Kingshighway. Clayton got there first, then myself, then Nikki and Gave and finally Janine. Novak’s was doing a music open mic, which are notoriously hard for comedy as people aren’t in “pay attention” mode. Before Janine showed up, we were discussing order; none of us wanted to go up first, so we wrote numbers on paper and picked. Gabe got number one, I got four. I forget what Clayton and Nikki got. Anyway, eventually I decided to go first and then we’d just relay-race style bring people up; only not tell who was next until we called their name. That’s just fun to me, plus I was going first, so I wanted to “get back” at the others…

My set was alright, afterwards one guy said I was expletively funny. I did say sh-- twice on stage. Gabe went up after me, and some drunk lady was heckling him. I felt bad because in that situation, he really couldn’t win; if he chose not to respond with counter-heckling (which he did), people would be like “you’re a comedian, be funny” (which they did). On the other hand, if he came back with something clever and insulting; he’d just be a jerk. During Claton’s set, the audience really paid attention. It was pretty cool to watch; I just I wish they would have done that for me. Nikki disappointed the audience when she told them she was straight, and did some stuff I hadn’t heard before. One of the bartenders recognized her from the Bone, and said she was really funny. He even said that before she went on stage, so that was pretty cool. The funniest (I’m a jerk)/worst (but a sympathetic jerk) part came when Janine was on stage, and some dude kept punching/interrupting her jokes with words like Spamburgers and Fartburgers. The dude was either drunk or English wasn’t his first language. Possibly both.

Anyway, the lady running the open mic, Celia, was glad we came to the show, and called us Funny Boners. That was worth the trip, in my opinion. It was a pretty cool deviation from the norm, though I’m looking forward to having a “comedy club audience” next Tuesday.

 

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