Tonight at the Comedy Forum, I did ten minutes (give or take a handful of seconds) and a bunch of it was new material. I did my joke about (the superscripted numbers reflect the newness of the joke (lower number = newer)):
-how I quit smoking, how my friend Justin quit smoking and how I got people to quit bumming cigarettes from me1
-the weekly rates of the worst hotel in America1
-why Emergency Snow Route signs are unnecessary in Quincy, IL (and why local jokes are funny)1
-why being in a seminary might cause you to be an atheist and bad with women2
-why I'm not nervous around attractive girls3
-how to trick girls into taking off their pants by screaming2
-why I LOVE mozzarella sticks but like my girlfriend2
-how the girls on Match.com rejected me 2 (where I proved how local references always work)
-why I think married couples should register for better stuff1
-why you shouldn't name high schools after small town business men1
-why my friend Doug thinks I should start drinking again2
-why girls act like teases and let people buy them drinks3
There may have been more in there, I tried watching my set (but I was distracted by Letterman). Sarah asked me if I get bored writing my blog after every show, and I told her that I wish I was able to be more Doogie Howser-ish. Meaning, I wish I could say what I learned, instead of just saying "tonight I was on stage, it was fun, I did this, that happened" etc.
That being said, I did a crap-ton of new material tonight, which gives a warm, tingly feeling inside or something. Having been in a weird writing slump and having watched all my peers come up with amazing stuff, it feels good to have something new to show.