Tonight I got to do a spotlight at the Comedy Forum. Kevin Patterson was hosting and Wayne Moss was also doing a spot before the feature, Danny Browning. The headliner was Don Reese; and halfway through his set I recognized his voice and style of material (and one joke in particular) from MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour. I've blogged before about that show and how it forms a type of foundation to my stand up career; so I won't repeat myself. Needless to say, it was really cool.
My set was really good, I clocked in at 4:57, which is obviously under the 5:00 I was shooting for. During the show, after I was done, I realized that I forgot to do my PANTS joke, and I'm not sure what I should take out to squeeze it in. My set went thusly:
-Justin (New Smoking Joke)
-Celibate by Popular Demand
-Nervous
-Chubby Chaser
-Advice
-Match.com
-Mia Wallace (Married Woman Story)
-Dumped Via Email
-The Scorpion Strategy
-The Motorcycle Joke
I'm thinking of pushing the Email joke to the end of my set to close on it; I've been trying to close on it, but it seems to hit or miss, especially for a closer. Granted, when it hits, it does great, but when it doesn't it's not a great end. The Email joke is kind of in a similar place, because it sometimes gets groaned. If I trimmed the both of them, I could probably punch them up quite a bit and then I could fit the PANTS joke, which would be nice. Looks like I have a strategy for tomorrow.
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