Wednesday was the contest. It was actually somewhat busy because the judge brought a good amount of people. He was visiting from out of town and asked me to get some stage time. Lucky he did, as he was the only person that brought any of the crowd. It made for an interesting evening, but the comics were lucky to have a crowd. A few of them mentioned him and the crowd seemed to enjoy that. After Winston's I had planned to go to Eleven but was still drained. I ended up having a drink and getting way more wasted than I had intended. I ended up getting into a fight with my gf, and was a dick. I am really making an effort to cut back drinking. I only really drank on Wednesday and Friday this week. That's very good for me. I am working very hard to cut back and this is one of my main things to focus on.
Thursday was the Store and Palace. I went up 2nd at the Store and it was a smallish crowd for a Thursday. I had a meh set, ranted a little bit and that got some laughs. After that was the Palace. Jesse and I arrived a little late, but we both had cleared it with the booker. Who apparently never told the people running the show. So when we arrived we were guilted and asked if we let anyone know we were going to be late. We both showed our texts to prove our point, but this didn't seem to matter. We were originally suppose to get 20 minutes, but ended up only getting 6. Kinda lame but I guess it's nice to get the stage time. I actually felt pretty good about my set, even though it started off pretty rocky. It is one of the few times I felt like I did decent at the Comedy Palace. We even did a tip bucket and I made a few bucks.
Friday was Winston's and a special show. We were suppose to have a dude who used to be apart of OBC. He was planning to be in town so we cleared the date for him. Turns out, he couldn't make it into town. So I decided to put together a roast. I've been wanting to do it for awhile, and I think this was a perfect excuse to put it together. It ended up being a huge success. The big crowd enjoyed it, we were able to donate a good amount of money to charity, and all the comics had an amazing time. It will definitely be something we do again in the future.
Saturday I worked at the Store. After seeing the best headliner I'd seen last week, this was likely the weakest headliner. He was a very nice guy, actually thanking us and chatting it up a little bit, but as far as comedy wise it was not headliner material. He was referring to notes, and just seemed to be stretching a bit. He was very edgy I would say. Lot of bashing of women, midgets, and handicapped folks. There was even a point when a gal yelled, "Stop, you're too mean." She wasn't really doing it maliciously, but he was walking a line on whether or not what he was saying was to extreme. Also the first feature that went up sounded like an opener mic er. Just wasn't great, had way too many made up stories that I had to basically tune out. The 2nd guy sounded exactly like Greg Giraldo, and I was told he stole a joke word for word from someone else. He was nice enough, but who knows with people like that. The crowds were small too, and made barely any money in tips.
I still haven't been asked to open a show on the weekends. Somewhat annoying, but I don't really care. I'd be pissed if I opened a show and ate shit, then had to hang out for another 4 hours. I do think they put way too much emphasis on how long you've been working there. It's basically the same guys opening every weekend, and their both meh comedians.
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