Mike Shawky called me and reminded me that Dan Walsh heard about an open mic at the ShowMe's in O'Fallon, MO tonight. Dan got called to duty for the Marines so he's busy tonight and was unable to make it, so Mike and I went. I got there first, and signed the two of us up while three old guys played guitars and sang old OLD cover songs. The band had "groupies" or some kind of following; anyway these people had tambourines, maracas and other noise making toys/instruments to accompany the "singing cowboy" songs, Elvis tunes and other blue-hair favorites. I went up first, and have no idea how much time I did, but focused on making eye contact with the few people that were close and paying attention. I got some laughs; had to deal with quite a bit of microphone feedback and there was some dude who kept saying "Ehh" throughout my set. I'm not sure if he did it every time I said "Right?" or asked a question, but it was annoying.
Anyway, I did my set and got off "stage" and went back to where Shakwy, Addler and I were sitting. Then the band did some more time and Shawky went up. I split out after he got off stage. We may be trying it again next week, with less (no) music and more comedians. I will be in Mason City, though, so I'll have to live vicariously through the others.