I'm almost a week late on this blog, because on last Monday (February 2nd) we did a show at Lloyd and Harry's that wasn't great. It seemed like the audience wasn't in to it, and Steve Poggi said that few of the other comics actually wanted to do the show. I didn't know that, but in hindsight I can kind of see it. Anyway, the show wasn't great and so I was nervous going into the Funny Bone open mic as the host.
I was hoping to make a good impression last week because James Johann is coming to Westport this week and I worked with him in Little Rock in November. I asked Matt if I could host that week and he said he'd like to watch me host the open mic. Long story short, the audience was rough last week and I didn't get the big laughs I wanted. HOWEVER, I didn't crack or show that the audience was tough, I went on with my material (and may have gone long by about 2 minutes, which REALLY bugs me). Anyway, Matt wasn't able to see my set. Something happened, I don't know what. So I think I dodged a bullet there maybe. It's too bad I didn't ask to host a week earlier...