Goodish shows

Did a few shows the past couple days. First was a somewhat pop in at the Comedy Store. One of the booker's told me he'd put me up the night before. I was somewhat worried when I got there as he wasn't there. Luckily they were running ahead of schedule which is extremely rare, like never happens. There was probably 100 or so people there, which is a good amount for a non promoted night. I wish Winston's could bring in 1/3 of that. Anyways I went up slightly nervous I think. That place is the only place I feel any nerves. I started off a little shakey, stumbled over a few words. I eventually got into my grove, started with some people. I even jumbled my final joke. It was a combo of not doing the joke often, chatting with the crowd, and my brain working ahead of itself. I felt pretty good after getting off stage. It would be so swell if I could do that 3 nights a week. I wouldn't feel pressured to crush everytime and could work on developing other/ newer jokes.

Last night was actually better than expected. There was maybe 12 audience members on top of the comics. One of the features brought zero people. Didn't thank me for the time, and just left. He won't be invited back. Anyways, the crowd was silent but unlike other shows they actually laughed and most of them came to the front. I tried a lot of newer jokes and felt comfortable up there. I did nearly 25 minutes which is cool as there was a lot of jokes I didn't do. I wrote out about half my jokes on a piece of paper and did maybe half of those ones. So thinking I can entertain for at least an hour at this point is pretty cool. The set was a combo of jokes and slight crowd banter. I think those in attendance enjoyed themselves, and got a few compliments. One from a gal who was amazingly beautiful, obv. there with her bf. My friend came. She usually only makes it to miserable shows. Luckily this wasn't terrible, not a great show by any means, but not embarassingly bad. Her friend and a dude were there seeing me for the first time. Not sure they had much fun as they left right after, oh well.