Two shows, lame sauce

So I worked a couple hours Sunday morning and headed home for a little more sleep. After I woke up headed out to meet some of my friends at a bar to watch football and drink adult beverages. It was fun talking comedy and drinking beers. I had a little issue due to the blog once again. The reason I never use people's names is I rarely think differently about people even though I discuss it on here. Confusing I know but I don't write the blog to gossip, I write it because I think there's a lot of crap in comedy. I've had discussions with people about how they felt insulted by things I wrote about them. I wrestle with whether I shuld just make it private. I don't want to censor it, but don't want to lose friendships or shows because of it either. Who knows.

After drinking all day we went to the comedy store. I worked on a character I had been developing called minority comic that does hackey stereotypical jokes. i think it's funny, and I think comics like it, but it probably won't ever really work in front of a crowd. People just don't get or respect a good smart joke. They just want to sit there, drunk their beer, and laugh.

Last night I had a show in Spring Valley. Driving there I'm thinking why the f do I do shows like this. I knew it was going to be rough, but it wasn't terrible. Just at a hick bar in the middle of no wear across from a liquor store and a mexican restaurant. They didn't accept credit cards and had random microwaved foods for $3. I took the opportunity to work on old jokes that I haven't done in awhile. I think I did as good as I could. Kinda weird the host, who I've never met put me up first. I have no problem going first as I wanted to get out of there. I had spoke to the guy once about doing his show in Oceanside. He said I could come up but he couldn't guarentee me anytime. I basically said I'm not going to drive all that way for no time. Doubt he remembers talking with me. The weird part about going first is that I was on the poster and suppose to be a feature. I'm not at all angry, but some people just have no clue how to run a show. We show up and he says we can 15-20. I took it as a challenge, and wanted to do at least 12. Well as I'm up there for a bit I see he lights me? After our initial conversation about 10 more "comics" showed up, so he was probably stretched for time. We were suppose to start at 9, and maybe started at 930. He lit me after 5 minutes... Not one to care, but really sir, 10-15 minutes less than you said. I should teach a "How to run a show 101" course. So many people are doing shows, and they are all so poorly run. Not claiming I run the greatest show, I'm always learning, but have some structure please people.