Of the more-than-one-hundred people at the show in Fairview Heights tonight, probably no one in the room was thinking about my set while Jeff Wesselschmidt, Clayton Champagne and Jesse Taylor were on stage; not because I had a bad set, I think I had a pretty good set actually, but because they (as an audience) were watching what was in front of them. I on the other hand, was thinking about my set (but not so much that I didn't notice Jeff, Clayton and Jesse having great sets of their own). Anthony, the manager at the club, never told me how much time to do, so I just went up. I did some jokes, and was in the middle of a joke I knew I couldn't close on when I got the light, so I opted to close on my skiing jokes. I didn't get quite the closing applause for which I had hoped, but I didn't get crickets or a giant hook; so it's all good. I said the word "right" a lot during my set, and will probably listen to it (I recorded myself with my OLD DVR) and count how many times I said it. I'm guessing 26... That's what was on my mind, mainly. I used to say "I don't know" after punch lines, and now I'm saying "right" after setups. I'll probably record myself for the rest of the week and post tallies in the blogs just to keep track... Hopefully I can drop the number down or squash the habit.
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