Tonight was a light show at the Comedy Forum, we only had 14 comedians show up, and we started with an audience in the single digits. About two or three comics in, eight more people showed up, so that literally doubled the size of the audience. I hosted the show and did about eight minutes up front, I began by talking to a group of Communications Students from St. Charles Community College (they were there as a class for an assignment about communicating). I can't say that my bantering was amazing, but it made the other comics aware of why they were there and it allowed me to explain to them what an Open Mic is. My set was alright, I tried not to make eye contact with the students too much, because I didn't want to make them feel nervous or awkward, so for a while I would just stare at the back of the room and talk. They were fairly responsive, which was great, but I could tell that they lost some steam by the end of the night. Two or three times between the other comics, I did a couple more minutes of material, and got some laughs there too, so that felt really good. I got a couple of good comments in between the other comics too, so I was happy about that. Tomorrow I'm in Columbia and Friday and Saturday I'm in Mason City. I'm really looking forward to both of those.
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