6:20 PM
The drive to Wichita was a pretty easy one; I stopped in Columbia to grab a quick lunch with Leroy, but his regional manager kept him looking for some holy grail of shipping records; so that took a while. Nothing real eventful happened on the ride up, I listened to old episodes of The Bill and Dan Show. I also thought about how the next two weeks are going to go. I'm not worried about my sets, I've done these rooms before; I'm going to be working with the same feature and same headliner for the next two weeks. The week could go badly if I don't get along with the guys or if they get along way too well and I end up being the third-wheel. I did meet John Burton (the feature act) and he seemed cool. I'll type more after the show.
12:52 AM
The Loony Bins do open mic on Wednesday; but their open mic show is followed by the regular show. Before the show, I was talking to the manager and he told me how they quadruple-booked the emcee spot for this week. Luckily the other three either couldn't make it. I've heard of double-bookings; but wow...
Tonight, I brought up four open micers (who were allotted 10 minutes each!). I didn't do any material before them, I just explained the open mic "rules". I did my set the open mic guys (and gal) and did well. The crowd was a little weird, but I think I got some good laughs. After the show, Claude (the headliner) and I talked about how all three of us didn't think they'd get the clever stuff. But they got my shampoo-dog joke, which is really just a joke for other comics. However, they didn't like my Abraham Lincoln reference so I was forced to do my Lincoln impression.
After the show I gave away my new marketing cards, I'm hoping people will want to be friends on Myspace or join my new email-list.