I'm emceeing out at the Comedy Forum this week with headliner David Graham and Jeremy Nunes (pronounced Newness). Thursday's show was a little light, I think we started with twenty people, but we ended with around 30 as there were a lot of late comers. My set went well, though; I'm opening with the six flags joke and moving right into the story of how Sarah and I met. Both of those jokes are going over pretty well and I'm excited I'll get to do them a total of seven times this week (including open mics).
Friday's first show was great, I really felt like I got the audience warmed up. I didn't prepare a set list, so I kind of stuck to some of the standards (Drinking, Celebate) but I also threw in a joke or two that I didn't do Thursday. After the show some people told me I did a good job. You don't get that too often at open mic (I kind of did Tuesday) but it feels really good to have people treat you like a professional comedian.
The second show last night wasn't too bad, my first three or four jokes were great, and then the audience kind of petered out for a bit, but I did close strong and set the table for Jeremy and David. Some dude kind of yelled a couple of things out during my set (it was like he was trying to tag my jokes for me), and after the first time, I looked at him and said "That wasn't funny at all", and the crowd laughed because it was the most obvious statement I could come up with. I'm not real quick with hecklers, but I've heard you want to say the first thing that comes to mind; we'll see about that, I suppose. Two more shows tonight, which I am excited about, and then my next professional show is on the 25th in Hannibal, MO with Dan O'Sullivan and Joe Lehnig. It's going to be sweet.