I did some major trimming last night during the announcements and it threw me a little off my game. I also tried doing a different set than Thursday, so that might have been a little to blame as well. I forgot an entire sentence or two in my skiing joke, and only realized it about half-way through the last part of the joke. I felt really dumb, but I think the audience just thought that they missed something; because when I got to the one-legged guy part they were back on board. After my set, Duke came up to me and told me he was watching me for Eric to see if I could handle the opening position. He asked how much time I had, and I told him, and he said he might trust me with about ten minutes if I was a little bit more animated. I told him to watch the second show and then see what he thought and he said he would. Hopefully whatever report he gives to Eric will be beneficial to me; as I'd really like to come back and have a chance to do more material.
The second show started and I made a couple more changes to the announcements (not mentioning the other comics on the bill) and when I did the cell phone/table conversations bit some lady asked if it was ok to dance on the tables. I shut her up in a couple of sentences, but she turned out to be kind of a pain throughout the whole show. Not a major pain, just an annoyance.