Last night was the end of the week for me, Andy, and the Fryman at the Comedy Forum. Both had asked me to tape their sets in hopes of getting something good on a DVD. So I showed up with all my video supplies and tried to find the best place to record the show. It took a while, and I tried a couple different ideas and positions for my tri-pod (the problems were: 1-I needed a power source, as my camera would not survive a two hour show on my battery and 2-I had to switch tapes after Andy.
Eventually Al set up a high-top table in the back near the audio equipment. We used a milk-crate, a trash bag and some Duct Tape and I was in business. Before the show, I write down three jokes I wanted to do during my set, the DQ joke, the Charity show the one about the Adult Video Store. I didn't remember to do the Charity show one, but Andy gave me a great idea for the Video Store joke.
Andy told me what joke he wanted to close on, and then he was going to pitch his T-shirt so that I could get a tape in for the Fryman. I got one in and everything went great until the end of the show. I started getting nervous then because the Fryman hit fifty minutes (on my camera; I had to start it RIGHT before I went on, so it had all my announcements and everything (about three minutes worth of stuff) and I was afraid he would still be on stage when the tape ended.
I couldn't stop looking at my iPhone at that point, because he and I had already talked about using this set on his new DVD (which I would get to "engineer") using a couple special features from his current one. Anyway, he ended up getting of in time and when I got off stage I stopped the camera at 1:00:00. Tomorrow I get to check out all the sets I did this past week and work on Fryman and Andy's movies; then it's back to the Forum for open mic.