The end of another week

Last night's shows in Little Rock were very different from each other. The first show was great, the audience really seemed to get the subtle stuff. My set wasn't the best in the world, but I had a good time because the crowd was laughing at stuff the rest of the audiences didn't like/get. The third show of the night was like pulling teeth, that audience had really low energy and it made for a less enjoyable time on stage.
Somewhere throughout the week I realized something about myself. I'm hardly ever happy with a set, even when I get compliments from audience members and other comics. I guess I'm only happy with the kind of sets that make for good demo tapes. Maybe I'm a perfectionist or maybe I'm just looking for a new demo...

Life in the Little Rock

Wednesday's open mic show went pretty well, there were only five Little Rock comedians there for the show, but we had a decent sized crowd and I had a good set. After the show, Matt Singer (a local comic I know) and I went out to some bars and hung out. Yesterday was Thanksgiving so we didn't have a show. Steve the club's manager invited the out of town comics over to his place for Thanksgiving where James Johann and I ate well and then I played Wii video games with Steve's family. We have two shows tonight and three tomorrow, so I'm hoping to get a good, longer set on tape for some agencies from whom I'm trying to get work.

all out of gum

Tonight's show at the Comedy Forum was sparsely attended. Thankfully Landon agreed to emcee since he had some people there. I was determined to have a good set despite the low numbers, unlike last week where I gave up on the audience before I even got on stage. Riding the wave I (feel like I ) am on, I did a similar to the one last Tuesday and used it as a chance to work on my Pro Bono Pimp joke. Hopefully I'll have a good set tomorrow and run with some nice confidence for Little Rock.

Wrapping up my weekend

This weekend was outstanding. Not because crazy things happened, not because I got a decent amount of sleep, and certainly not because I threw up (A LOT) last night and got picked up a nice bout of diarrhea (thanks to some Arby's I think). This weekend was awesome because I had two shows, both one nighters (which usually have the opportunity to be rough (to say the least)) and both went better than I could have hoped.
Friday morning, I woke up super early to drive to North Platte, NE with David Graham for a show at a bar called Touch Downers (I think). The show was great, though I had to use a cheat sheet on my Iphone to remember a new order I'm working on. I ended up doing 33 minutes and got a lot of nice compliments after the show. David had really nice things to say, and so now I'm not nearly as anxious of featuring as I was.
Last night Joe Lehnig, Dan O'Sullivan and I performed at an Elk's lodge in Washington, MO. We weren't allowed to use the F-word (which wasn't an issue for me) and the sound mic cord was really dodgy, but other than that the show went extremely well. I opened up and did about 13 minutes. Joe did really well, and Dano only slipped up twice with the F-word (he played it off well, and no one got upset). After the show, everyone was very happy with the show, and on the way home Dano had some nice things to say about my comedic talents. I've always believed I'd make it as a professional comedy, but now I'm starting to know I will. It's a great feeling.

lazy lazy lazy

I've gotten pretty lazy with this blog. Things have gotten kind of slow, I suppose. At least that's the way it seems. Most of my shows go pretty much the same, either I do well and am satisfied with the results, or I encounter some problem (be it me, the delivery of one particular joke, or a rough audience). Since most of my sets seem to continuously fall into those one of those categories, I feel that my blogs have become categorized as well.
The week with Leo and Kevin ended well, Beth was very complimentary to me and invited me back. Her calendar's full through January, so hopefully I'll get back down there around February or March. Hopefully February.
Tonight at the Comedy Forum I emceed for a small crowd. Mike Howington was in town and brought people, so we had a show (and he gets a mention in the blog). My set consisted of me explaining the open mic rules (not as charismatically as I would have liked) and doing a couple of new jokes which poorly segued into other established jokes. I worked pretty blue most of the night and even told a couple book jokes between comics to keep myself amused. I kind of wish I would have taken the audience more seriously because the two new jokes I tried could have worked WAY better had I actually believed the audience would like them. I'll have to wait for another small crowd sometime and hope that I don't give up before I get on stage then also.

Good start to the week

Last night was the open mic at the Tulsa Loony Bin. So I got to host the show for 7 open mic-ers, Ken Kramis the feature and Leo DeFour the headliner and a good sized crowd. I started the open mic telling people they'd see pros and amateurs, funny comics and un funny comics. I told them to laugh at the funny ones but not to encourage the bad ones. I didn't do any time up top, so I tried to have funny things to say between the comics, so that when I finally got to do my time, I would hopefully already have a reputation with the crowd of being funny. I called some guy Gomer Pile from Full Metal Jacket and they quoted the movie, but got it wrong a bit.
My set went alright, I played around on stage and talked to the audience a bit. Nothing real substantial or hilarious ensued, but I had a good set, and felt really good about just winging it more and taking the chance of being spontaneously funny.

Not a lot to say

Last night at the Forum, we had literally five audience members and we did a show. Because I knew no one would want to emcee, we just did a relay race where each comic brought up the guy after him. I tried talking out a couple of things on stage, but since I went up first (and there were only five audience members) I can't say I got any actual experience from the set; I realize now that kind of sucks to say/write.
No show tonight at the Bone because they're doing a debate thing. So I won't be getting onstage until I hit the Oklahoma City Loony Bin tomorrow night.