into the mild

Sunday's audience sucked. They couldn't get warmed up and I ended up having a terrible set. Not many of the comics had a good set, though a couple did. Bozeman headlined, obviously he did well. The worst part is I've been absent from Fairview since March 30th, so I was hoping to return and have a good set with my new material. Instead, I looked terrible in front of my girlfriend and a friend of ours from work.

Sadly, I was not the "Party Star"

Tuesday's show at the Funny Bone was outstanding. The majority of the performers did very well and the crowd was really responsive. After getting such a negative response Monday, I was worried that I am telling my Dairy Queen joke all wrong. I kind of consider it my "go to" joke (mainly because it's my favorite new joke) and because when civilians are like "Your a comic, tell me a joke" that's the one I pull out. But after doing that I became worried that I was telling it like a "street comic" (see: street magician) instead of a stage comic. My set went really well, and in particular my Weekly Rates joke got one (just one) lady to laugh really loudly at the final punch. That made my day.

Why I hate the white trash

Last night at the Forum, I let Patrick Brandmeyer host the pro/am open mic, and he did a really good job. The show went around an hour fifty, and a bunch of people went over their time, but the audience (for the most part) was stellar. I say for the most part, because after the-third-to-last-comic and the-second-to-last-comic we lost over half of the members to the outside bar. My set wasn't great, which sucks. I opened up with my Dairy Queen joke and apparently it hit a little too close to home for some audience members, who knows. Anyway, I tried a couple changes to my Boathouse jokes and even threw out a new line about turtles, but as a whole the audience really didn't seem to like me (not that I'll be loosing any sleep over it).

busy busy busy

I keep forgetting to blog after shows; so it looks like I have some catching up to do.

Saturday was the drunk show at the Blue Agave, Joe Lancy, Joel Thornton, Landon Meyer, Steve Poggi, Brian Dowell, Kevin Bunetic, Patrick Brandmeyer and I performed. I was emceeing the show, and everyone from Joel to Kevin were competing for their own charities. The rules were that they had to be twice the legal limit (.16 BAC) before performing and they had to do twelve minutes to qualify. Officer Cathy Effing and her breathalyser proved to be too accurate so I had to fudge the numbers a bit, but that doesn't mean the guys weren't wasted. Kevin and Steve were super belligerent and Brian ended up throwing up in the back of the "showroom". The audience ended up voting for Joel Thornton, so I think some Animal charity got the money from the door.

Monday at the Forum, I kind of gave up on stage. I think the small audience (and the fact that a bunch of my friends went up and didn't get the results they deserved) had something to do with it. My DQ joke and my smoking joke did go over well, though.

Tuesday, last night, was a similar situation. The audience wasn't bad, and I was only third on the list so it's not like I could claim they were slow or terrible only e minutes into the show. Anyway, I did my DQ joke and it worked well, my restaurant material didn't ALL work, I need something better for the dreams part and I need a good punch at the end of my smoking joke. Hopefully I'll come up with something by next week.

I blame it on the crowd

The crowd at the Bone Tuesday was decent, but not great. My set didn't go as well as I had hoped, but I think I should have not-opened with my boathouse material. Maybe the Dairy Queen stuff should be the opening bit of the three I am working on currently. Short blog, I have to shave my head and beard not. Viva la mustace!

It's not dead until we say it's dead

I hate crowds that don't try. With the exception of spending some money on tickets and drinks, they do NOTHING for comics or clubs. Last night at the Forum, the crowd was extremely weak and wouldn't give a positive response to hardly any of the comics.
So I did what I normally do, tried to go up and win them over, got agitated and went blue. Eventually, I think that got them, after some terrible abortion joke that I've been sitting on and some other vulgarity-laced material.

What did I learn last night? My abortion joke is funny, and pretty much nothing else. But I did eat some cheese sticks. That makes it a good night.

New Haven, New Room

Last night I hit the road with Joe Lehnig and Dan O'Sullivan, destination: New Haven, MO. Four years ago this Augist I did my first professional show at the Boondocker with Joe and Dano, and Andy Faasen. It's good to see I've come so far in four years. Kidding. Every other time I've been at the Boondocker in New Haven we've done the show in the dance hall and the acoustics and seating were less than accommodating. Last night we did the show in the smaller bar-room. To quote Dano, the lights were "hideous". I taped the show, and took a look at the tape and it's terrible. The audio isn't too bad, the PA system was alright, though there wasn't a microphone stand, which Dano found annoying. Over-all my set was good, I did around twenty minutes, but forgot to do a couple (maybe five) jokes/bits. I did a good job and warmed up the crowd. The ride home was a trip, Dano and I took 94 through wine country and I'm still surprised that we didn't hit any deer. The roads were windy and dark; but I play a lot of video games, so it wasn't too difficult.