Last night was a different kind of night at the Comedy Forum; for starters, I couldn't find my "lucky" comedy t-shirt. Yeah, I have one; I also have lucky comedy shoes. But I wore those last night. Another oddity of the evening came when Al Canal told me we'd be using an "announcer". I'm familiar with the concept; a person who does little-to-no material and just does announcements (hence...). A lady named Evelyn was there who wanted to try it as she had experience in another city. So my set was weird because I didn't go up to a "cold" crowd. OK, I did, but I had someone bring me up. While looking for ideas for credits or whatever, Andy Woodhull (who was featuring) said I write one of the most renowned comedy blogs in the Midwest. So she said that. That was cool. My set went alright, even though we had exactly eleven audience members. I'm working on a couple new jokes (which I'll likely do the rest of the week) and I'm also trying to get all my jokes on tape, so I can start arranging them into a longer feature set. I won't be using the tape for demo, since it'll be from different angles and I'll be in different clothes in front of different audiences, but it will give me a more approximate estimation of how much material I have, and where I think each joke should go. I want to have the right segues so that my feature set is as fluid as possible (when i need it).
Today, my video camera started acting up, and I had to go to Best Buy to get a 25 dollar head-cleaner. Weak. Since I can't find my 6-4 pin Firewire cable (which lets me hook up to my lappy), I looked for one of those. Too bad they didn't have one. Of course if they did, it would have been 6 ft long and thirty bucks. That's overkill and over-priced. I bought a 3 ft one of ebay for a penny when I got home and it's retractable and shipping is only 2.99. Looks like that was the better buy. (I know the store is called BestBuy, but better IS the appropriate word to use there, since were only comparing 2 options. Better is the "comparative" form of the word "good" and "best" (the superlative form) should only be used when comparing 3 or more things.
I guess I have the most renowned comedy blog in the Midwest for a reason.