I haven't written a blog in a very long time, because I was tired of just saying "I was at the Funny Bone, I did these jokes, I had a good/bad set". There's nothing interesting there. Now, I feel I have something interesting to say.
I'm in Los Angeles, California at a standup comedy bootcamp put on by Kyle Cease at the John Lovitz comedy club in Universal City. This week, we've been focusing on finding our true selves, the things that make us as humans and comic truly unique (for instance, I am unique because I wasn't popular in grade school, so I fled to a seminary where I could feel safe. The seminary left me without much experience dealing with women, so I have a hard time understanding their psychology, which is why the married woman who took my virginity and offered me money to kill her husband didn't scare me away, because either I still wanted a woman to pay attention to me. The seminary often left the exiles (or whatever you want to call ex-seminarians) clinging to the first woman who we found that paid attention to us on the outside world).
Kyle mentioned Saturday that Stephen King writes 2000 words a day, and since, as Kyle said, we're not Stephen King, 1000 words a day should be acceptable. And since then I've written 1000 words a day on various topics that are personal to me that other people may or may not have. I went through some of the pages and highlighted the stuff that I think is more interesting and has potential to be funny. My new goal I think is to start doing a new minute each week about personal stuff.
I'm really looking forward to becoming a much deeper comedian on stage, and with a couple tips and tricks I'm learning, I'm going to get a lot funnier.