Friday night some lady (who's seen me more than a couple times) told me to write more material. "I'm working on it."
Saturday, Al suggested a lackluster set first show was because my setups are too long and I don't have any 1-2 punch lines big hitting jokes. "I'm working on it."
Last night I tried to talk out a couple stories on stage at the Forum open mic. Few if any got laughs, and only because I was talking blue.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to only do new material at open mic; I think I lasted 1 week. The problem is I don't know what to write about; since I try to base most of my bits on my life; I'm limited to what happens (or has happened) to me. And since I work clean, I guess I'm not able to use certain words or take certain positions on subjects... The problem with writing material at this point for me is; I don't know how I write jokes. I'm still really confused about who I am on stage, am I happy or bitter, self-confident or not; I really don't think an audience could take both happy and sad me, and then see me go from no self confidence to some or a bunch. Even though I do that in real life; sometimes I feel untouchable, sometimes not. Maybe the audiences would be able to follow along... I'm pretty sure though, someone will say it's confusing. It probably will be at first.