Last night i had twenty-two or twenty-three people on the list; during the meeting I explained that I absolutely hate 2 hour shows and would be adjusting the times everyone got accordingly (so I gave everyone four minutes). I sat in the back the entire show and kept time, and it's amazing how some people don't know the difference between three and four minutes on stage. I mean; they'd see the first light and sometimes do another fifteen seconds and bail; that's fine with me, I'll never complain about someone going under their time at an open mic/pro-am; but being able to know how much time you've-done / are-doing / are-expected-to-do is a key foundation to being a successful comic. It's one of the things that hardly gets brought up; but it's vital nonetheless.
As for my set, I went a couple shades of blue I'd rather not discuss and rushed some punchlines and generally did not have a good set. Sometimes it's you the comedian; sometimes it's the jokes, sometimes it's the audience. Last night it was the audience (at first) and then it became me. I did try one new joke out last night; it's short but I need to shorten it up and slide it in between some similarly topiced jokes then it will probably work much better.