Yesterday afternoon, I drove to Cincinnati to Go Bananas Comedy Club for their Pro-Am Open Mic. Since I am having such a hard time finding a job, I really want to try getting to more clubs and making more connections, and now seems like a perfectly reasonable time to do that, unless you mention that traveling costs money or something based on fact. Anyway, my drive started out terribly because I kept forgetting stuff and home, and had to air-up my front tires of my Taurus, and I literally was in the car and turning-around-and-getting-stuff and leaving-my-place again for about a half an hour before I actually got away. I was super afraid that such a bad beginning would make the rest of my trip suck, but much to my amazement, it did not. I found the club easily, they had an abundant supply of coffee and they had a HUGE crowd for a Pro-Am show. While there I bumped into Chris Wagel, whom I had met in St Louis couple of months ago, and so I hung out with him which was cool because I was a little worried I wouldn't know anyone at the club, but everyone was VERY friendly to me. During the pre-show meeting, I learned that they were going to do the show "piggy-back" style or like a relay race where each comic brings up the next comic. I'd never seen a club actually do that, but it was really cool to watch, because some of the transitions from FINAL JOKE to INTRO were a little hard to spot, but some of them were flawless. After the show, I gave Jeff my promo package and we talked a bit about booking, and then I apologized for leaving right after the show and he said it was cool. And then I got in my car and drove back to St. Louis, I left at about 10:00pm EST (or 9:00 CST) and got home around 2:30. And then I went IMMEDIATELY to bed, because I was tired.
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