Joel Thornton invited some guys down to Sulard to Trueman's Bar and Grill on Monday where he's hoping to get a weekly open mic started. Myself, Gabe Kea, Andrew Topping and Cory Rayburn all showed up. We didn't start until around ten, and we only had an audience of four to eight (including on waitress), and we went relay-race style where each comic would bring up the next comic without ever discussing an order. That's a fun game I like to play simply because it makes you be ready or go up and wing-it. I wung-it. For some reason, I decided to work on some of my suicide material, and I also talked about my mom and the stuff my old coworkers and I did to make fun of each other. Since there wasn't an audience per se my manner of speech and presentation was very different. Gabe said I looked comfortable, which I take as a compliment. Anyway I tried a very similar thing Tuesday at the bone and just came off as depressed. I think I really made the audience uncomfortable, but usually talking about suicide can do that, so it's not like I'm shocked. I believe there's a right way to present it, or there's a funny way to look at it, but I just haven't figured it out yet, so I guess I have to keep brain-storming.
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