Matt came up to me today before the show and asked me to run the meeting because he was busy. I said ok, and he said I might as well just emcee while I was at it. He said i was running the show, which kind of made me nervous. So I ran the meeting and tried not to forget the little rules and reminders... What I DID forget was to mark who wasn't there for the meeting, so while I was emceeing, I didn't always know if the person's name I called (there were a lot of new people, a LOT) was actually there. So we skipped on guy and the next time, I said playing the part of so-and-so is Rob Durham, since I had told Rob I was going to throw him up. My set went alright, though I forgot to do my Justin (quits smoking) joke. So i did it between two of the comics when I thought the crowd could use a boost. It apparently worked because it was short enough and got laughs at the right places. Emceeing an open mic is kind of a weird task, because there are so many stops and starts throughout the night; I always appreciate when the emcee has a quick and or clever remark about the guy who just got off stage, and I was happy that I had two tonight. It's not really something to brag about, but I kind of thought if I didn't have something on the fly, people would doubt my emceeing prowess. The show was around 2 hours long, which is a bit much, but we had four professionals show up, so it wasn't bad and the audience was alright.
I listed to a 20 minute set I have recorded from a while back to prepare for the show in Quincy on Saturday and realized that about four minutes of that set are all jokes I don't do anymore. I made a list of the jokes not on that set and hopefully I should have enough to break 20 and get close to 25, since that's what Landon is wanting me to do... If push comes to shove, I might just talk to the crowd, but I expect that that won't end well...
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