You want the knife back?

So did an unexpected set at the Comedy Palace tonight. I went there intending to work the door and they let me do some time. I could have went without going on stage. I didn't do that great. Stumbled over my words a few times, and lost some of the audience. I went up first which is fine, but I wasn't happy with my set. Like I said before when I started I didn't drink at all, but with getting free drinks at the Friday spot I've been using that to loosen me up. I didn't drink at all tonight, and while I don't feel nervous or anything. While I'm up there I feel like I'm talking too fast and my pacing is off. You should never blame it on the audience, but this crowd was kind of dumb, they wanted yelling and didn't want to hear witty stuff. The comic that went up after me did really well. He started at like 19. God I wish I started when I was younger, even if I started when I moved out here who knows where I'd be. I'm so tired of some of my jokes. I'm starting to turn into the comic I dreaded. The dude that does the same jokes every week. It's depressing, esp. considering I don't even know what my solid 10 minutes is. I'm tired of my jokes!

Now to the title of the blog. I used to write with this one comic, but we kind of stopped writing as he wanted to focus more on promoting and working on being better than me...basically. I kind of saw this guy as a friend but he Hollywood's me quite a bit. He's from L.A. and as much as I thought he was better than all that I'm slowly learning he's all about doing what is going to help him. I gave him a really big break next semester because I thought we were friends, but at this point I don't really even feel comfortable shaking his hand. I'm not going to make a brass decision and say he's done, but if I continue to get this weird vibe I'm going to have to.

What prompted the latest thing. I am writing with a new comic who I feel comfortable with and doesn't act like he's better than me. Plus I've been texting with another comic a lot recently. And our texts inspired some joke about soap operas, etc. I then spawned a joke about sesame street and elmo. I have a lot of stuff. But what I was most proud of was this, "why is elmo so excited, he is basically one missing L from being emo." I think that is real clever. I then went into no one buying a tickle me emo doll, and what it would do if you squeezed it. I was really excited about this joke. Other ppl thought it was funny. I tell this dude, he stares at me and says "Are you serious?" Gives me a face like you suck, I'm so much better than you. Sorry sir, I guess I only can write jokes about being a minority and having sex to impress you. I'm bitter that crowds love jokes that are sooooo over done, but something out there like the surgeon general having the easiest job or needle in a haystack being a rediculous phrase get a few chuckles.

I recall telling him I had 45 minutes of material a few months back. He's like "Ya but how much is A material?'' I said all of it. I have no idea what A material is. I had so many jokes that got laughs that I rarely do anymore. I have no clue what A material is. He likes puting people down, I'm not cool with that.

Slow down the drinking boozehound

Did some writing with a comedy buddy during the day yesterday. I got 2 quality jokes out of it that I'm excited about. One about the young and the restless/ seseme street, and the other about feeling bad for the transfat. They are I think different. That's my biggest thing I try to do when writing is try to take an idea that no one has tapped into, kind of goes along with the fact minorities doing all jokes about being a minority. I try to stay away from doing jokes about getting so drunk, so high, etc.

Later in the night we picked up a fellow comic. She hasn't been doing it that much lately but I used to hang out/ perform with her a lot when I first started. She used to constantly remind I was new when I first started whenever I complained about having rough shows or other people doing shows I thought I should be on. That pissed me off a bit but whatever.

We planned to go to the spot I did a few weeks ago that was pretty much an all (looks around to make sure they're not reading) black people crowd. shhhh. That is fine but they were not wanting to laugh. Anyways on our way there one of my buddies said they weren't doing comedy that night. Luckily we didn't drive all the way there. Anyways we then went to the ladies house and milked a delicious 32 oz bud ice. We then went to a pizza spot to spilt a pitcher and get some food. I used to go there basically every Tuesday for a year or more with one of my former best friends. He met a gal, is now engaged, and we no longer speak. People that change in relationships are dumb. Anyways, I drank a couple beers there, ate the large slice of pizza, and we headed out. For some reason I thought it to be a good idea to get one of the energy alcohols before Moondoggies. I'm sure me drinking one of those every day is why I wake up wide awake at 6 am everyday, even if I do drink til 2.

Anways we get to Moondoggies and It was packed. There was quite a few people the last few weeks but this was nuts. Basically just a bunch of douches there just to meet hot women that have low self esteem, but not low enough to date someone like me. So I went up second again. I felt somewhere inside that I was going to do good again. Nope couldn't get the crowds attention. I got some laughs and some people came up to me after and said I was funny. I did as good as I could I guess. Can't be too hard on myself all the time. I am welcomed back and that's all I can ask for.

Clean and sober

So I did Lestat's again last night, the place I must not use swear words. My name got drawn....FIRST! Hell ya. That made me feel grrrreat. I wasn't going to go up if I got a late spot. I went up at like 7:30. When I first started I never drank before going up. Now with running Winston's and getting free drinks I often have a few beers before going on. It definately makes me more comfortable and engergenic. I think I am still funny sober, I am just a lot drier. I don't really feel nervous I don't think, the jokes are simply a little more choppy. I paused a few times, and I played it off well. Just little stumbles that I don't make after a few beers. I think I did pretty well. I tried my new Smokey the Bear joke and that had a good response. There's no bigger rush than having a new joke work. Like I've said before this is mostly a music open mic. I did pretty solid, and some dude actually said "Good shit man," as he was leaving. People that arn't comics, or entertainers in general, do not realize how much that means to us. As many of you know from reading the blog I'm an overall negative/ pestimistic person. Any compliments are greatly appreciated.

After the show, I went to the gym, then met up with the girl from the previous evening at the same bar. They have a trivia night and she is a fan. They're trivia night is much more intense than the one at Winston's. At Winston's we announce the question, they give you a sheet of paper with about 25 questions, and there's only 3 rounds as opposed to our 7. It kind of makes things less fun and social. I didn't really get a chance to talk to her at all. It is a little weird because it appears she dates or used to date the host guy. Kinda feel she may still like him a bit. I think I'm already just placed in the friend zone. Oh well. We did talk about going to dinner or something when she returns from her new Year's trip, although she did say "I'm still going to quiz you though." I have no idea what that means. She is amazingly cute. I established last night she kind of looks like a SD female comic and one of my comic buddies gf. Not sure that's weird or not. Anyways, I just kept looking at her and thinking, "Man she's adorable." Is it gay for a late 20's dude tell a gal, "You're cute as a button." Don't worry I didn't, but that phrase kept going through my head. I never really understood what that meant anyways. Button are not cute, and if they are like my buttons they will fall off within a month and I'm so cheap I'll keep wearing the shirt anyways. Well enough girl stuff.

Sunday night I facebook chatted with a fellow comic. He is newer than me, and I like helping people out. I gave him some advice when he first started and not too pat myself on the back but he took the advice and got better. He has been getting better and better but within the past month I noticed a change. He is black and that seems like the only thing he wants to talk about. I really can't stand that stuff. I mean don't get me wrong Chris Rock obviously much funnier than me, but if he was white how famous would he be. Watch his hour specials, take out any joke that talks about being black, and how long of a special do you have. Anyways I told the dude in the nicest way that I noticed he's doing it, and hoped he'd just focus on being funny. He seemed to take it well, but I texted him yesterday and didn't hear back. Hope he's not made, he's a good dude and I think has potential to be a solid comic. Maybe I should stop giving advice as who the hell am I anyways.

2 shows what up

Welp did a couple shows tonight. The first was 3 minutes at the Comedy Store. I had nothing planned and winged it. It was real choppy and prolly sub par. 3 minutes is not comedy. I should try to plan those sets. The crowd did not want to hear sad stories. They sighed a lot, but the laughter was slight. I wonder how long I'll have to do comedy until I make it to the SD best position. There's is this one dude that simply yells a lot and is Sd's best and it's embarassing to me. Comedy is all about time and thats lame.

I then went to a pub that does comedy. It was very tough. I tried more crowd work and did ok. I chatted with a real cute gal b4 my set. She watched me and gave me her info after my set. I was funny, she might like me. Now I have to try to not screw it up. I'm so bad with the play it hard to get, wait 3 days bs. I just want to be myself, but I will try to play the game with this one.

Why do we do this to ourselves?

Wow awful show tonight. Went to a spot I did once before. People are not there to hear comedy at all. When I do rooms like this I wonder how big time comics like Seinfeld or Leno would do. I mean would people listen to them. My set was zero jokes, basically zero crowd work. I had the mic off the stage while the band was setting up. I tried to talk to people but they had no interest. Tried to get a girl to hug me, her ugly ass didn't want to get off her chair. I'm just bitter with people that don't take the opportunity to be silly. Get over yourself, try something different. This spot also played music in the backround while comics were attempting to do jokes. I was proud of the other comics for sticking it through and continuing to try jokes. It was a tough experience, but I adjusted well.

On that note, no matter how tough a room is a comic can always get something out of it. I hate how comics think they are better than open mics. If you have day job, and pay your bills from money recieved from services other than comedy, you are not better than open mics. You need to build a fan base, your crowd work is lacking, your jokes arn't good enough, you haven't put enough time in.

This spot talked to one of the comics about doing a night of open mic comedy. This spot is not right for that at all. First of all the stage is to the right of the bar. It's not natural to have more the half the crowd to the right of the stage. Secondly, 0.0 percent of the people were there for comedy. I understand more might come on a comedy night, but it's more of a divey, alcoholics spot. I'd probably do time, but it will never really be popular.

Speaking of unnattractive bitches, I am still on Plenty of Fish to meet gals, and not only do most girls ignore my messages some actually block me. Really what the f word is wrong with ppl? I'm not even interested in you.

I wanted to rip on more people but I forgot, prolly luckily.

Im funny again

Hearing people laugh is an awesome feeling. I hosted a trivia night this evening. I said I will kiss someone on the mouth if they tip the bartender 5$. Some gal did. She was cute and I kissed her. I got her name and think I added her on facebook.

While were at it, me and the lady ended things. It was a mutual thing.

I told some jokes at the same spot I did last Tuesday. It was again a tought crowd but they were easier and let me do material this week. I told some jokes and did some crowd work. People told me I was funny after. The feature dude who is a SD big time comic said I did well a few times. That was cool to hear. I'm gonna eat food.

I still suck

Did a show 2night. Some ppl laughed but I didn't feel like I did that well. There was a girl out front that was basically asleep and that was all I could see. I went up after a dude that did a lot more time than anyone else. He was funny but it was not ez following him. It was a long day. I went into work an hour late, went to the gym during my lunch break, showered after work, went to the party, then the show, then back to the xmas party. I'm not feeling good about my jokes so it was sad I didn't do that well. Things ended with the lady. It's cool, it was mutual. She has her stuf 2gether and I obviously don't. I'm trying to book more Maine shows but it seems there r only 2 places that do comedy. I booked at one place, and the others will come. I like a gal at work and I think its time I try to take her out. She's real pretty. I would brag about her. Dare me to ask her out.... I will.

Jokes: Facebook, spell check, google, typewriters, 100% american, old vadge, home depot, cigarettes, intervention, etc

Welp I suck again

Did an interview before the show yesterday for a dude's documentary on open mic comedy. It was cool to talk about things and the struggle of comedy. I had worked since 7 am, and didn't drink the 3 nights prior which means no sleep. During my lunch break I took a nap but I was still kind of tired. The interview was interesting, I don't think I got into as much as I wanted but it was cool to be on camera again. I kind of miss the production side of all that stuff.

Anyways comedy. Looking back I probably drank too much, or it hit me harder because I was so tried. Either way I wasn't that excited or that funny for that matter. The lady brought some friends which is great and all but it puts additional pressure on me. I will not be funny at every show. One of her friends came up to me after and said "I heard good things about you, sorry it wasn't great tonight." Awesome my first impression is I suck. Never ever tell a comic they didn't do well. I probably need to take a break, as I really thought about quitting last night. I know I won't because ppl keep putting me on their shows. That's awesome and all, but that means more pressure to promote. It's hard enough to promote when you feel confident is your abilities but when you feel like crap it doesn't make things very easy.

I tried a joke about siamese cats that I fussed with for about 2 weeks. I think it was quite but it didn't go over that well. I did some other jokes that go some ha ha's but nothing that good. The headliner was some dude that has some tv credits. I could see him in the back of the bar just staring at me like "Get off the stage the people are here to see me" We were pretty short for time so when I saw that I basically packed it in and got off the stage. Give it a D. 3 people actually came up after and said I was funny. Who knows maybe I did ok, I didn't feel that way tho.

I did a lot of things wrong yesterday. First I'm too nice. I let way too many people on our lightening round and lost the audience. I didn't plan my set at all. I drank too much. I had no energy. Doing a bad set sucks, sucks even more when people came to see you. The shitty feeling of having a bad set sticks with you way longer than the joys of having a good set. I feel a little nervous/ stress about the show tomorrow. I wasn't able to promote that much because it's also the night of my x mas party, and work ppl r the majority of ppl I can get to my shows. I feel like telling them to just take me off. It's not like it will affect the show, hell I'm not even on the poster. Kinda funny I talked to the dude that mad ethe poster and he didn't even realize it. He's a nice guy and know he didn't do it on purpose, but to not even know I wasn't on there is kinda funny (probably not the word).

Anyways, just got booked for shows Jan 3 and 17. Both shows I have to promote, and will be hated for if I don't. One is for the dude that put me up first on the last show. I probably should just not do it, but I have to push myself. The other one is for a gal who is really nice. Says, she wants me on just for my humor, but everyone wants you to bring ppl. The thing about this one is the line up of people. One dude sings an entire song about basically raping women. When I started comedy that was the one subject I said I would never cover. You could talk about murdering someone and theyre wont be a dead person in the crowd. With a rape joke there could always be someone in the crowd. Rape in my mind is just as bad or maybe worse than killing someone. Do I really want to tell my friends to come watch a show with a comic like that?

Finally the lady. Well leave it at that.

Jokes: Siamese cats, old vadge, hand jobs, other bad jokes

Ahh the roller coaster that is comedy

Did 2 shows in one night for only the 2nd time tonight. I was about to say first time but I remember now that I did do 2 rooms one Friday a while back. That was actually the same night I was asked to help out with OBC. Anyways the first room was god awful. I mean people were talking and the people that were actually watching the show didn't want to laugh nor even be involved in the show. There was a meet up group there that didn't even want to laugh. It wasn't just me, all the comics did bad. I hate doing bad, but here felt particularly more soul crushing because it was my first time doing the room, and I will prolly never go back.

While I was there one of the Comedy Store regulars who also runs a bar in Pacific Beach asked another comic to come down and do the show tonight. I was standing next to him, so he asked me to. I've never really talked to the guy, so whether he was just being nice or actually wanted me to go, I'll take the invite either way. He was actually the comic from the Comedy store the other night that asked if the door guy was a fan of me. He's told me before I was funny so maybe he does think I have some potential.

Anways I get to the place and of course it's a bar. He tells me this is the hardest room in San Diego. I'm like "Harder than the place we were just at?" He says yes. I'm like awesome. I went up first which is never easy. I get up there and go with the Mclovin stuff and the crowd loves it. I proceed to do crowd work for the rest of the time. I try to tell jokes but get interupted and talk to them. Actually had a few girls get up with me on stage and take pictures. This was one of the nights I wish I had business cards. I could have added all those people and brought them to other shows. So I walk off stage knowing I killed. Thats such a good feeling to do well, esp. in front of people that don't wanna hear comedy. Had some people tell me I was funny, even the door man called me Mclovin. The girls that were chatting with me said I did well and wished I was up there longer.

I brought the lady with me and she enjoyed it. When I was trying to locate her I noticed her at the bar. Some dude was trying to hit on me, and saying I was funny. I stroll up she says she knows me he proceeds to buy me a beer. We then go over and hang out with them for awhile. Before I left I talked to the dude that is in charge of the show. He's been on comedy central and stuff. He said I did really well and could come back any time I'd like. That was cool, he said I was likable, I was like "I didn't even tell any jokes." He says ya these ppl don't wanna hear jokes, even though you told that one corny joke, they loved it cuz they were with you. I guess I'll take the compliment. I love when ppl say mean things and don't even realize it. But I was happy and I'll probably try to do the room again. I'll give that set an A-, I really should give it an A, but it was only 5 minutes, and I didn't get paid. I think A's should be on tv, or at least a standing ovstion.

Clean jokes please

Well I went back to Lestat's, the place that I got picked dead last and questioned all of life the last time I was there, and actually got picked. It's a music and comedy open mic. It's messed up cuz they only give comics 5 minutes, and all the musicians get 10. I ended up going up kinda early. I was prolly the 2nd maybe 3rd comic. The guy that went b4 didnt even sing songs, he played instrumentals. Nothing like doing comedy after a dude that put the audience to sleep.

I got up there and told some clean jokes. It's sad I can't even recall how many clean jokes I have. The crowd was a fan of me, and I think I got an applause break. That means I did really well. The host, who prolly hates comics, told me he likes my stuff and to come back next week. That felt kinda cool. Ppl in the crowd said I did well, I even got some high fives.

I stopped a few times, cuz i forgot my many clean jokes. It's so crazy how I started being totally clean and now I cant even do more than 5 minutes of clean material.

Jokes: Intervention, nintendo, pretzels, 100% american, etc

3 minutes won't make you famous

I did the Comedy Store again tonight. It is a great room to perform at. The laughs are so much louder and the attention is all on you. It is also weird to look out in the crowd and see people basically just staring at you, thinking "Make me laugh monkey." You paid zero dollars to get in, why the f are you here if you're not even gonna try to let me make you laugh.

I didn't have a guarenteed spot, but I was hanging out with the lady near the comedy club after so I went down to try to get on the alternate list. I texted one of my comedy buds I knew was gonna be there to ask about the alt list, he said there was 2 ppl on it. I figured with the bad weather (so lame I say mid 50's temp and a lil rain is bad temp to me now) that a lot of people wouldn't show up. Yay, I was right. A bunch didn't show up, I was alt 7 or so. But the host adjusted the schedule and put ppl where he wanted. He called some sub par comic his favorite new talent. I know he didn't mean it but well I hope he didn't anyways cuz that dude, eh, lame. My buddy closed the new talent section, the host basically said he wasn't new talent when he introduced him. Well then stop being a closed fraterity and let other ppl into youre comedy club line up. Comedy is so full of politics.

My set. It was the first time I went on stage and wasn't completely sure of what I was gonna do. I had some ideas, but nothing set. I started off kinda choppy but I did some funny stuff i think. 3 minutes is not comedy. I feel like once I even catch my breath I already get the light. The host was talking to one to a dude that used to run OBC and now is a Comedy Store lacky asking if he was a "Jeff Bilodeau fan" WTF that was about I have no idea. I do feel like ppl knw who I am at the Comedy Store now which is nice, but how many more open mics do I hve to do to be a more than 3 minutes kind of comic. As I was there they announced the features for the night. I don't recall both names, but one was this f word terrible comic. I mean uncomfortable awkward comedy. i had to leave when the lady saw him last week. he has jokes about a letter from a crack baby and a lot of hitler stuff. it's not funny and it scares many ppl.

Good luck... I realized I've had some good luck. I have basically been lying to my insurance company for 4 yrs saying I still lived in Maine. I never got into an accident or had anyone hit me. I say it's good luck, but I still control it, as I'm a great driver. But, I guess I need to switch it over and pay 3 times as much. Whatever all my posts are about how unlucky I am, I figured I didn't get unlucky with this yet. Let's jinx it, yay!

jokes: intervention, lies to ladies, 100% american, home depot

Shhh there's a comic on stage

So, I did Winston's last night. Weird weird night. It was rainy, and there was a good amount of people there. Sad thing is they were not there for the comedy, they were neither there for the band. They pretty much talked the entire show. Everyone had a rough time winning the crowd over. I got up there and basically said nothing for a few seconds. This brought the entire crowds attention to me. I kept them pretty quiet and got some laughs as well. I felt it was one of my better shows, simply because I won over a really tough crowd. Some girl came to watch me. I always feel pressure to impress ppl that come watch me for the first time. I warned her before I went up it probably won't be too great, but she said she enjoyed it I'll give my set an A-.

Couple pieces of advice for new comics. Don't bad mouth clubs to other people who will in turn tell the club promoters, that's going to get you off shows pretty quickly. Also, don't pass out tickets to other shows after performing at a club. Very disrespectful.

I wrote about 7 minutes of new jokes yesterday. I haven't had one of those days in a really long time. I think I was in a life rutt, and meeting the girl has got me out of the funk. I did a few of them last night and they went pretty well. I have been drinking a few adult beverages the last few weeks before my Winston's shows. Nothing too crazy, but I should probably cut back a bit. Also, I have an opportunity to take over another room on Thursday nights. It's just a bar, and won't be anything big, but I would like a no pressure room to dick around and hang out with some comics. I will be calling the owner tomorrow, if he makes it worth my time, I'll probably take it over.

Jokes: 100% American, needle in a haystack, nintendo, getting older, dmv, cialis

Jesus honestly?

So let's start by ranting about unlucky life other than comedy. Fuck poker, seriously, I just need to stop playing. Luck is involved in being good, and I'm not lucky at all, enough is enough already. Other shitty stuff, even though some fucking mexican standing outside my work store my year sticker, the city gave me a fucking ticket for that. I appealed it, and the jackass state of Cali kept the ticket intact. Now I have to wait 2 hours at the god damn DMV 2morow, because Arnold wants to close the fucking place down every Friday. LEt's save money. Hey jackass do you realize how much were paying ppl in unemployemnt. Give the miserable fuckers jobs at the DMV and let's get me out of there before a new shitty Terminator movie is released. God I hate stupid ppl. Then I get home and see a nice note from the IRS. I guess since I took my money out of mutual funds I have to pay taxes on that, so not only did I lose 5 grand in 2 months, now i have to pay the fuckers in Washington another 1k. Awesome thanks. And to show how unlucky I am, I didn't follow the progress of my mutual funds since I put it in when I was 18. I put money in in August of 2001, when I guess the market was at a real low. Welp Sept 11 happened and my 10k dropped to 5k. Because I'm a pussy I didn't invest more money then. Well the 5k made it's way to 13k. Then my mom said I could check out my stocks online. You know when this was. October 2008, when the market stARTEd tanking. Am I saying I am completely at fault for the market crashing, of course not, but it is kind of fucked up. My 13k dropped to 9k. I did some research and knew the market was going to go down big, so I pulled my money out. Well because I'm such a moron I guess I still had to take the loss on that day. Which the market lost me another 600$. Awesome thank you. Now I have to pay another 1k. WTF. How I still have money to my name is amazing.

Well comedy. Had a show tonight. Got some pressure to promote and bring people from the guy that runs the show. Basically saying if you don't bring people comedy isn't important to you. Really? If you do the same jokes every week, comedy obviously isn't that important to you. I end up going up basically first and most of the ppl that came to see me didn't get to see me. Not real happy about A. going first, B. not having ppl see me. Anyways, I will no longer do favors for ppl. I see why ppl get jaded. Gotta look out for yourself I guess. I was pissed b4 I got on stage, went into autopilot and did pretty well while I was up there, and took about a half hour to cool down after my set. Talked to the lady who calmed me down. I really think she's great and hope it works. She even invited ppl to come and they actaully came. I had no idea they were there, but one of them hugged me and said they got to see the end of my set. Oh well. Made a few bucks, had a few strangers say I was funny, guess it's an ok night.

Jokes: Facebook, spell check, google, typewriters, baby can read, give 2 shits, needle in a haystack, home depot, not a slut, intervention, can i be honest, how you doing, directions

New England College show booked!!!

Welp something good happened to me, the show at New England college was approved last night. I'm really excited. I was told they pitched our video and 20 out of 20 of the secret ballot voters said yes to our show. That makes me proud. I will know work on booking some other shows that weekend. The other guys seem pretty happy as well and I'm glad I could do that for them.

Well San Diego comedy. I have a show tomorrow evening at the Comedy Palace. I have to promote, which I hate. I don't like putting people in a position of feeling like they will dissapoint me if they don't show up. My room mate is really supportive and makes it to all the shows I have asked him to go to. That means a lot. Around 40 people said they might come, but if 15 come I'd be shocked. The guy booking the show said he is bringing 109 people, and that he's only gonna book ppl that take comedy seriously. Not sure what that means, he said when he booked me he would be happy if i could bring at least 10. I do not have the ability to bring 100 people. Esp. when I'm making zero dollars for doing the show. I mean stage time is limited, so I need to try to make a good impression every show, but bringing more than 20 people when most of my friends are comics or live 3000 miles away, isn't that easy. Welp I hope the people come, and I'm funny.

Comedy Store with a lady

Actually got picked for the Comedy Store open mic. First time in awhile. They say it's a random drawing, who knows to be honest. They put me on, and I appreciate it. I went up 2nd. Every time I've done that place I've gone up first or second. I think once I went up 6th, but it's rare.

Anyways, my lady friend joined me. It was a little hard as when I got there there was 4 ppl in the crowd. There were a few more ppl when I went up. I did a pretty much clean set. I was slightly nervous before I went up because the gal thinks I'm funny and I didn't want to disappoint. I got up there and did my dry delivery and did pretty good. I felt good up there. I told another comic, the laughs at a comedy club are so much stronger than doing a bar. When I headlined there were 60 ppl there to see me, and while I was on stage I didn't think I was doing that great. There were maybe 13 ppl in the crowd when I went up and I could hear all the laughter. But for some reason all I can see up there is the one or two ppl not laughing. The other night at Winstons there was a lady in the front row that was yawning while I was on stage. She was there for the headliner, and I watched her and while the headliner was on stage she didn't laugh at all. Wtf is wrong with people. If you're not gonna laugh get the f out the front row. I give the set a solid B. Only cool thing was that the host, who is kinda mean to all the open micers, after I got off stage he said "That was funny right, it's great when the comics are actaully funny i don't have to say anything in between." He only said that about one other dude that night.

Life stuff. Should find out this week if I'm gonna get booked at my sister's college. I really really hope it happens. And about the girl, I like her, I think she likes me, maybe it will turn out well.

Winston's Dec 4 boom!

Another week, another single show. It's so weird doing only one show. There was some weeks I was going up as many as 6 days, and now only 1. The only good thing is that I'm starting to get some joke ideas. That hadn't happened in a little while.

Last night was another weirdish show. We had some bigger named SD comics that were suppose to show and didn't end up coming. Plus one of the guys that started OBC didn't show up. Also probably 5 of the open mic ppl didn't show. So I had to rework the schedule and give ppl more time. That is never usually a problem, as comics love more time. At the end we ended up going over time anyways.

The crowd was pretty full, and were there to laugh so that is always good. I did pretty ok, tried out some new jokes and reworked stuff that I didn't use for my headline show. I have another bigger, I have to promote show, this Wednesday. I'm trying to have 8 minutes of material that I didn't do for my headlining show. I probably have 4 or so, we'll see.

I did some crowd work, which I wanna try doing more of. I think I'm naturally a funny person, and Improv is what I think is my real calling. Although I've auditioned for a few SD improv groups and they don't feel the same way. Anyways later in the night while I was hanging out one of the comics told me that I shouldn't do crowd work, as in you are not good at it. You should never put down another comic, maybe give him ideas to improve, but I would never say that joke was bad. And not to toot my horn probably 5 ppl told me I did really well, and honestly the dude has had a few good sets lately, but for someone that has been doing it for 4 years + I am light years ahead of him. I take comedy pretty serious and try to work my jokes all the time, trying new things and the such, don't come at me with criticism if you're going to do the same 8 minutes every week. /rant

As I write this I'm listening to Lady Gaga Bad Romance, I really think she is good. Just quite different. Anyways, the girl that picked me up from my show is still in the picture. It's going good I think. She stopped by before my show, and brought the kids she babysits. I think it's kinda pathetic I'm almost as excited to see the kids as her. I really like kids and am excited to have some in the future. Being a dad is probably the only thing I'll be able to do better than making people laugh. Welp time for gym then moving Christmas trees for stuck up SD women. Peace homies.