Hey Comedy Store, nice seeing ya

Slow times at the Comedy Store. Sunday was a weird vibe all around. There was rain throughout the day, so that made for a small crowd. The opener did not show up and there was only about 25 or so people, and 12 were from a birthday party group. As I was seating people a guy gave me what I found out after was $20. Kinda cool and strange. He then sat in the front row and stared at people and tried to be a apart of the show. The first guy was an older Asian comic who has a lot of self deprecating humor. He kinda ate shit. And I was next. I started off with some crowd work that started pretty ok and then trailed off. I tried some jokes and mixed in some more crowd work. I had the strangest heckle ever. I said I don't like karate and someone yelled, "It's the Dane Cook of martial arts.." Excuse me, wtf do I say about that. I was stopped in my tracks. First off in my moron brain, I thought karate and martial arts were basically interchangeable. Welp I'm an idiot. Anyways I didn't have much clue what to do. I ended with my reality tv show show and that got a good response. I would say it was a decent set. A few people said I did well, always nice to hear. It was just a weird night overall. When Erik Westland was on stage a woman in the front row, wife of the guy that gave me the $20, threw a napkin at him. I'm not exactly sure what led to it as I was taking out the trash, but I look up and see a napkin in the air towards the stage. I guess after she apologized and figured, "You'd say something funny about it." Crazy people. The crowd was weird all night, maybe my fault as I opened with crowd work and they assumed they could yell what the wish and be apart of the show.

Monday was the open mic. Smallish crowd and full of comics. My set was what it was. I tried this awkward character. I committed to it for the full 6 or so minutes. I think it doesn't work as well by myself. I would like to work on it with Rene more often. I think it's really funny, and tests the audience to figure out whether or not it's real. It doesn't help that I had to seat people. I guess a gal in the crowd said she felt bad for me, which is the point of the bit. I was happy with it overall.

Tonight I worked again at the Store. They had their graduation showcase for people that took the class. I had no idea what to expect, but I would have to say it wasn't terrible. Some of the comics were better than a lot of the open mic ers that I see. A few of the comics were 13,14,15 respectively. Crazy. I'm so jealous and look back to wish I could have performed when I wanted to. I guess the 13 year old's parents kind of pushed him into it to try to make his acting career. When you're that young and somewhat funny there's likely no chance you're actually writting those jokes. I don't thin that helps a comic grow. But if he did write those jokes that's amazing. Everyone was decent enough, and who knows how bad they were when they started. The crowd was amazing, only about 30 or so, but they were so giving. Erik got to go up at the end and destroyed. Definitely one of the rare shows that I actually wanted to perform on.