Saturday's shows at the Comedy Forum couldn't have been more different. The first show was amazing, the crowd was good and I performed my emcee skills at their technical best. I don't mean technical like "Well, technically I didn't cheat on the test", I mean the skills an emcee should use (warming up the crowd, doing announcements, bringing up comics ETCETERA) were on point. At the beginning of the show, I had to alert the audience that we were a waitress short, so their drinks might take a minute or two longer than normal. At that point, some dude in the front drunkenly yelled that he and his table needed a waitress. So I proceeded to remind everyone that they should keep their table-talk to a minimum and turn off their cell phones. I did my set (and it went really well) and brought up Reggie Reg who was doing a guest spot at the request of David Graham. I was a little sad that my time was getting cut in front of such a good audience, but I didn't voice that to anyone because who am I to complain, you know?
The second show was rough. My new six-flags joke didn't work at all (I have a feeling everyone was either drunk or a little slow) and both Jeremy and David had to work to get the audience to go with them. Aside from my six-flags joke, I tried mostly my "'A' material" so it's not like I didn't try to warm up the crowd...
It's weird how two shows in the same night can be so radically different...