Vince Morris was emceeing last night at the Fairview Heights Funny Bone; he brought everybody on stage with really weird intros; I knew what he was doing (trying to get people to react to an unexpected bump) but I still was unable to do anything to respond to his intro saying that being on the list was my make-a-wish.
I was trying to time out my set for my showcase at Zanies. Sadly, my set was not very helpful. The crowd was really tight all night, I went a little blue and I berated the audience. Paul Harris was on stage a couple of comics before me and when he got off stage, he said "you guys have been great" or something like that. Vince went on stage and told Paul not to lie to the audience; if they were a terrible audience, tell them that. So when I got on stage, i told them that. Not immediately. I was a couple jokes in and not getting many laughs, one guy at stage right was laughing out loud. I did my shampoo joke and almost no one laughed at stage left, and I said "If you're not laughing at that you're either blind or retarded". The only redeemable part of the night was when I got good laughs (from a vast majority of the audience) on my Gay-Bar story.
I'm thinking about opening with that joke tonight, and closing with my Phone Sex joke, I've been told that I tell that joke the best; and I think that if I switch up the topics my set will seem more well-rounded.