Does anything matter?

So I was busy at the Comedy Store this week. Tuesday was another shitty bringer show at the Comedy Store. It was 420 themed, and the "headliner" calls himself the 420 comic. We lit him when we were suppose to and the booker turns off the light, and runs into the showroom yelling, who wants more of the 420 comic. No one, but I guess they did. After him Tommy Chunn went up. He did 5 or so minutes of this over the top annoying, cocky set. He gets on stage and yells bitch in an obnoxious yell, and the crowd eats it up. He's basically everything I hate about comedy. I'm happy to say I did better than him on a show, and say that with pride. There was a comic on this show that did pretty good on this show, by the name of Medicinal Mike, who was also on my show Friday at Winston's. He totally, admittedly ate shit at Winston's. Winston's is as close to comedy justice as there is. After the show, I recorded another episode of the podcast, and it was a good time. Wednesday was the contest. It was the first round, and there was a decent turn out. 10 or so, but that's a crowd nonetheless. Jesse and I played a game where he played game show themes and I tried to guess. That was fun. I enjoy the fact that even on crappy shows, we can have a good time. Thursday I worked and performed at the Store. Once again I went up first. It's so annoying. I guess it's a favor putting me up first rather than later, but I disagree. While I was on stage about 30 or so people filtered into the show. They warmed up by the 3rd or 4th comedian. Then Jay Larson popped in. He did 15 or so minutes and totally drained the energy out of the audience. He had a really solid joke about a phone call, and seemed really nice. He even gave another comedian advice on her set. The guy after him totally sucked all the energy out of the show for reasons I have no idea. I'm not sure if he was nervous about following Jay, but he did this whacky, dry start that just turned the crowd off. It was awful. After that, the comedians were kind of hit or miss. The crowd was laughing at random jokes. Friday was Winston's. It was a 420 weed inspired show. The turnout was slow as expected. About 30 or so paying customers. The show had some high points, no point intended, but many of the comics didn't do that well. I went up, and felt pretty decent about my set. I'm happy I'm continuing to take on the Friday night shows. My buddy, who is a very talented comedian, told me he didn't want to go up in fear he would lose his confidence. I have to take pride in keeping up with the struggle. Saturday was working at the Store. I was actually somewhat excited about the show. I am at least aware of the comics that were on the show. I was somewhat disappointed. The headliner did basically the same set each show, and I thought he was more of a crowd interaction comic. He also ran the light by 20 minutes the first show, and 40 minutes the 2nd show. He was scheduled to do 40 and did 80 MINUTES!! Wtf is wrong with people. He ran the light on the 2nd show, simply because he wanted to do some stupid thing where he gave the crowd a chance to ask a jew a question. This basically entailed the other comics on the show yelling racist crap to him. There was some laughter but for the most parts it was sighs and most of the crowd began filtering out. The feature of the show is actually more talented that the headliner, and more crowd members asked about him. He has his "set," but doesn't stray much from that half hour. I've seen him do 4 shows so far and it has always been the same jokes. Lotta of impressions and race crap. He said he doesn't listen to other comedians and just does his own thing. He said it doesn't matter if comics do the same material topics, as long as they do it better. I agree to a certain degree, but come on how many racial jokes can be done. I don't know if I'll eventually have an "aha" moment and just give in to doing easy jokes. After the show a crowd member basically got in the features face about wearing a Dodgers hat in SD, and the nerve of it. I was standing on the latter changing the letters of the marque at this time. I'm yelling at the comic that's suppose to be watching the latter. I tell him to make sure these drunken idiots don't get too close to the latter. 5 seconds later he's shaking hands with them and letting them walk right under the damn latter. Are you that retarded? Luckily nothing happened, but it's ridiculous. I could be slightly pissed, with all the right, because he's been working at the Store for a month and opened the show. He has already opened a show because he was just hanging in the lobby and the headliner asked if he was a comic, and then he was asked to go up. This time, the feature, who I guess they are buds, requested this comic to go up first. Such BS. I was pretty pissed, but I guess that's out of my control, as L.A. runs the Store. It is unfortunate how little the two managers care for my comedy. The chick is a bitch and I can't stand her. She has no clue on how to handle people. She's as close to the girl from Waiting as it gets. And the other manager I guess never cared for my comedy. Someone parked at Von's and they wanted someone to go on stage and announce the car before it got towed. I was first asked, and I had no desire to do this as I knew it was going to be awkward as fuck. The manager saw my fear and saw nah, let someone else do it. I don't care to be honest. It turned out the feature did it, and it was as awkward as I expected. He said this isn't a joke, which of course got a laugh, and announced it, which also got a laugh. The person never got her car, and it ended up being towed.