Lacking Laughs

Last night Dan Chopin hosted the open mic at Westport in the guise of Deacon Dan O'Flarity. The show was pretty weird, and the audience was pretty poor, they just didn't get some of the jokes throughout the night. Since it was a "themed" night, I tried to do all my seminarian jokes; but I only had about 2 minutes worth, and I didn't want to get off stage that early, so I did some of my other new-ish material. That material seems to have definite potential, as it got some laughs after two minutes of silence. My presentation last night seemed to really lack confidence. I think I should start to limit how much new material I do, because I'm not achieving the desired results. I've been trying to show that I'm writing more, but I think that even if I was able to produce four new minutes a week that got no response; the point would be moot if the four new minutes were not funny. On the bright side, my stopwatch showed 4:00 even when I got off stage. Bow to the master.