3 strikes and 3 minutes.

Whil writing yesterday, I wondered what would happen if I combined all of my paths for my sword bit into one giant sword spectacular. I wrote them all down in order and ran them by Janine. She was right when she said jumped everywhere and I'd probably loose people. I wasn't on the list initially last night, but I got on as I had a couple friends show up. My set was alright, not having been on since last Tuesday I felt rusty, plus I was working the new Dragon/Costume bit and I was infront of people who came to see me. That's three strikes right there. The night was good, and the show was fun, though.

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Now no one's talkin' 'bout those
Crazy days gone by

she doesn't have to buy it...

Tonight was the first time I was on stage in over a week, which is probably the longest I've gone without performing (comedy) in maybe a year or more. I've been working on new setups for my motorcycle and scorpion jokes; they seemed to similar to me, which kind of felt like lazy writing. Also, I debuted a joke (which I RARELY do at the Funnybone) about my working at the costume shop. I had to check my cheat sheet because I honestly forgot it was next in my set. After one of the punchlines, a lady groaned or expressed disgust, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why (on stage). I figured it out later while waiting to sing karaoke, she probably didn't like that my hypothetical date got killed by a dragon. Serisouly? Either way, I had fun and teh show overall was really good. Later, I had adventures which I can only disclose in my MySpace blog. Now you have to read it...

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One more indecent accident

Homer's yearbook quote.

I got a text from Landon Meyer saying that the Cocktail Hour would be starting at ten instead of the semi-usual nine o'clock. He invited me down to do some writing, so headed down to the landing. While sitting around and not-writing some dudes came up and said we could go on before the headliner. We all agreed, and as usual I got thrown to the perverbial wolves and had to go up first. I forget the name of the emcee, but I've worked with him before, but it was no real surprise when he brought me up as "Marc". Just Marc, no last name, no note to help him out. Marc.
Awesome.
Anyway, I was planning on opening with my Black-name bit. (here's some advice for anyone reading this, always open with a bit that you haven't done in a really long while, especially if you're going basically first).

Sarcasm.

So I ate it, and I mean A-T-E it for almost six minutes. Afterwards, I hung out a little bit, but had to leave. I wasn't keen on the idea of starting a show at 10:00 and hanging around for whenever I go to go up, so I headed home. No need to eat it twice in one night, you know? I'll save that for a special occassion.

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swine and their pearls

Tonight we had a small-ish crowd at the ol' Funny Bone. I went up lucky numerb 13 (technically 15 if you count Keith Cissel who emceed and John Doelling who got added in the middle of the show). I am reworking my motorcycle joke in hopes that the setup isn't too similar to my scorpion joke, and am playing with some stuff on Gotcha!, the costume shop I worked at in college. All in all, I had a decent set, though I kind of forgot to try to be more natural or conversational on stage. I also forgot to blink and breathe. How awkward was that?
Anyway, no show tomorrow, which means I'll likely be at home reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Seriously.
As for now, I have to go to bed, which means Guitar Hero II is calling my name.

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Smiling about suicide

Going up second to last at Laughs tonight was not that bad. Some of the crowd stuck around, and I got to really play around with my set. It probably didn't look too playful, though, as I tried to be pretty monotone/depressed and stare off into nowhere. It kind of worked since I was doing all of my suicide material, although Craog Mayhem said it was depressing. I got laughs in the right places, though, so I'm pleased with the set. I'm not sure I want to make a habit of performing that way. Brian Dowell said I'm creepy off stage, so I should be creepy on stage. I don't think I'm creepy, i'm leaning more towards adorable.

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All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.

I still had fun.

Man, did I work blue tonight. I went up third to last around 10:30 at the Comedy Forum and easily half of the audience had already left. I followed Brian Dowell who works fairly blue himself, and I decided to ride the wave, I guess. I tried out my suicide material and my Mia Wallace joke, with curse words thrown in there an the appropriate points. If there are appropriate points, I guess. Anyway, the crowd was weird, because they didn't get the comics that I love, like Mike Strantz, Janine Brito and Josh Arnold. Not that those guys had bad sets, I just mean the crowd didn't fall out of their seats laughing. And they should have. I think my favorite line tonight was my closer, where I said "The funniest thing I've done tonight is hit record on my iPod".

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Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame

Uno de Mayo

Tonight I got to lead off the show at the Funny Bone. I did some of my suicide material, which I like, but probably needs to be delivered differently, and I finally found the sentence I've been looking for in the Mia Wallace joke; and I said all of the words in the correct order, it just wasn't timed perfectly. Next time. The show was good, and I got my set on my iPod. I'm still working on the whole laughing at my own jokes thing, and kind of wonder if I am thinking about it too much. I think once I find how I want to present myself on stage (this commonly known as one's "Voice"), I'll know the answer to the "do I laugh after my own jokes" question.

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