They really mean it

I went to the Jack's Iron Horse Bar & Grill tonight to do Cutthroat Comedy with Steve Poggi, Joel Thornton and John Sokolich. We had about 4 audience members sitting in the front row, and maybe 2 or 3 more non-comics sitting back with Steve and Joel and John. The bar, which was easily 40 or more feet away was surrounded by 10 to 20 people having conversations and not paying attention to us. Since I knew my material wouldn't be rocking the house so I focused on timing myself. I figured if I did every joke I consider in my "current" set (since there are jokes I don't do anymore) and get zero jokes, that's the amount I can assume I can do during a worst-case-scenario feature set. Sadly I didn't start my stop-watch so I know I did about 18 minutes and I didn' do every joke I wanted. My intentions were good; but I started goofing off at one point, and so my only reward for the set last night was another weird open-mic experience.