Sunday, July 22, 2012

Slow week in comedy and some vegas action

After work on Sunday I headed with my buddy, his gf, and mine. We got in pretty late, around midnight or so. We got bumped up to a suite because all the smoking rooms were taken. Not bad for getting a free room regardless. Gf got a little drunk and was being a little bratty. I wasn't too pleased about it, and showed my anger. She took off at one point and I had to search for her up and down the strip. Pretty shitty start. Next day I woke up and started drinking. I pretty much drank for 13 hours straight. I was slightly annoying but never got too out of control. Ended up losing around $500 playing blackjack and food. 1/4 of that was money I gave to the gf to gamble. Pretty lame, when she lost that money, she took out more, and didn't give me any. We came back Tuesday night and I worked at the Store. It was a pretty busy show. We were staffed for maybe 50 or 60, but there ended up being almost 200 people. The servers were swamped and we had to turn people away because they just couldn't serve people anymore. One of the servers said she once served the entire room by herself. That's nuts. Wednesday was the contest. It turned out pretty busy. Crowd was not easy. One of the comics pretty much tore into them, and I had to say something about him on stage to keep the crowd happy. He didn't like that I did that and confronted me. We talked it out and he realized he was in the wrong. Thursday was my promoted show at the Comedy Store. I had been trying to do a different 15 minutes every two months, but I was not able to do make it 15. I made it close to 12 I believe, but lost the crowd with a joke and couldn't gain momentum with the jokes I was trying. I started off pretty strong, but tried my robert meowney joke and the crowd kinda tuned out. They were the hardest Thursday crowd to crack. Plus a lot of them were talking and no one told them to be quiet. I know the security dude told us that he was not going to shush people to see how we'd handle it, but it was annoying because I was doing a longer set, and was taping it. I think it went ok, just not as strong as the last few shows we've done. Friday was Winston's and dual headlining with Jesse. It was pretty dead. The girl I booked to promote didn't bring many people. My buddies and their gf's came, but no one else I knew came. A lot of the comics stayed and actually moved up to the front to watch and laughed. I think we need to practice it a little more, but in front of a real crowd it could be something popular. Saturday was back to work at the Store. I tried to give up the shift to no avail. First show was sold out. I actually got to open, and then had to host the whole show. I messed up the first girl's name, to which she told me again how to pronounce it. I asked what I had said and she had no idea. I think I somehow got it right when I brought her up, but just said her first name on the outro. I am not too concerned. My opening set was pretty strong, almost every joke got a somewhat applause break. I'll likely get more opening spots from now on. The headliner said I had a good set, although he was just being nice as he needed a favor.

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