Comedy off the stage

Put in a marathon day yesterday. 8 hours at the depot, hour at the gym, then 8 hours of poker. Anyways I played pretty well. Got unlucky in a few spots, but kept my composure for the most part anyways. Some old dude slow rolled me. Meaning he didnt show the best hand for a really long time. It's a really sleezy thing to do, esp considering he got extremely lucky to beat me. Then another dude played a hand awful and hit a miracle card on the river. I said, "This jackass doesn't know what he's doing." Made myself look like a moron and the guy was huge. I'm a douche sometimes, oh well. Had a few other big hands. I think I made the right plays for the most part.
I had a chance to double up to like 1500$ when I turned a straight with a flush draw. The freakin big stack ended up having a straight to and I didn't make my flush. Oh well. So anyways the comedy part. Two guys were acting like they were buddies. Then one of them guys lucky against the other. Then they play the next hand heads up. There was about 400$ in the pot on the flop. They agree to check it down. Meaning they wont bet anymore money. Anyways they check turn, and then the one guy checks, and the other guy goes all in. It's a real douchebag move. The guy that went all in I guess didn't realize what he did. To be honest I thought he was joking. Then things get crazy. He asks if he can take it back, which he can't. So the guy that checked basically says a few things, then calls him a mother fucker. Then the all in guy goes, "Come on let's go outside." So they do. They both have about 600$ in front of them plus 400 in the pot and they go outside to duke it out. I mean there's two security guards so the chances they actually fight is slim. Everyone at the table is like wtf. Some awful idiot, is like "They left the table the hand is dead we get the money." I'm just shaking my head. I look outside and the mother fucker is trying to lunge at the other guy. After a few minutes the check guy comes back. Then finally the mother fucker returns. They end up giving the pot to the mother fucker. He starts shaking everyones hand apologizing. Then he starts giving people money. It was so weird. I used to play with that guy back when I played a lot. He's actually a pretty nice guy, he was foreign and I guess they don't like being called mother fucker. He used to be really terrible, but he's gotten much better. He lucksacked his way to beating me out of a 1400$ pot probably 2 yrs ago, and I don't forget that. Anyways that's that. 2 shows tonight, hope they go well.

Hello weird drunk crowd...

I was a part of another show at the Comedy Palace last night. The show was entitled "Keeping it Weird." Most of the guys on the show were part of a radio show with the same name. I actually was the board operator for a few of their shows before the station changed formats. The are some interesting characters.
I wasn't a promoter on the show but I was put on the back end. Basically the club adds 3 or 4 comics to every show. The promoters are free to put the comics wherever they like and they put us 3 at the end.
The crowd was decent throughout but they got tired. I was the 2nd back end person to go up and it was about 10 PM when I got up there. It's usually a good idea to keep the shows in the hour and half time. They were pretty drunk and heckling when I got up there. I started off with some jokes then some people starting yelling and I went with that. I tried telling the typewriter and home depot joke with no luck. It was the first time someone admitted to owning a typewriter and then when I started on the home depot joke some mexican started yelling and ripping on me for working at home depot. He said he was an engineer etc. It was fun doing crowd work. I was planning to do 8 minutes but probably did closer to 6:30. I think I did ok considering the crowd I was dealing with.
Work stuff. They are cutting back hours a lot. I only have 16 next week. A customer called me an idiot yesterday and somehow had the restraint to not say anything back. Today I'm cashiering and when I gave someone their change he said, "Arn't you forgetting something?" What? "To say thank you." Ok douche. Then he said something to the effect of he's going to shop at Lowe's and I'll be out of a job. First off loser go shop at Lowe's I could give a shit less. And just because I'm ringing up your shit doesn't mean I need the job. I work at the depot mainly to get rid of boredom, make friends, and get people to come to my shows. Of course I didn't say any of that, but maybe he'll read my blog and realize he's scum.

Hello Palace, thanks for the time

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Pretty People don't like to laugh

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Reality...are you aware of it?

Did a show in the middle of nowhere. It went crappy as expected. I made a few bucks and made a few people laugh so I can't complain. Kinda funny the owner apologized to me right when got off stage. That was a lil different. I think he was also a little scared I was going to get stabbed. Some girl told me not to call her black, and of course 3 minutes into my shitty set I called her black. She and her friends got up and left. I guess she was ready to slap me. I talked to her after and smoothed it over.
Silly silly comics, cockiness is for hacks. Saw some pretty funny comics on a flyer that said "The real" best of san diego. The people on it are pretty funny, but honestly how sad are you to have to put that on your flyer. I know they are taking a shot at another comedy club but grow up. You're pretty much putting down every other comic not on that show.
Another lame thing I saw today was an email from one of the comedy clubs. It was about a change to the way they do their open mic. I didn't read much past where it said it was "the best open mic in town." Ummmmm no it's not, and why the f does everyone feel the need to be so cocky?? I know Winston's isn't the best show on earth but at least I can admit it.
I guess I should explain why I feel he spot isn't the best. I think there are a lot of cliques forming in the comedy circuit. It can be seen the most at that spot. Comics are all spread out and sitting together. The crowd is usually small, and I just don't feel like I really can gauge the strength of my material by doing this spot. When I first started there was a spot that really helped me progress in comedy. The booker was really open and allowed me to do as much time as I wanted. Usually 10 minutes, but I grew so much. I realize this place is much more popular but I think there is no real pay off for being funny. Next week you'll still get 5 minutes. If I could offer them any advice I'd suggest they have 2 or 3 people do longer sets each week. Give them a week's notice so maybe this will entice a comic to bring a few friends along. I know they are still trying to focus on promoting the Wed and Sun shows, but if they could get an additional 10 or 15 audience members I think the show would be much better.

At Winston's if someone is funny I will give them more time. I'm still trying to figure out how to make the best open mic possible. One thing I do know is that I can't be captain nice guy to put on the best show. I think as the summer months approach I want to start the show closer to 630, and limit the number of comics to 20. Some people might only get on every other week, or even once, maybe twice a month. I think people have taken advantage of Winston's, and just expected time. This has led to little promoting, and little respect for me. One of the main reasons I took over Winston's because I thought it would help me get booked on other shows. Clearly that hasn't happened. There was a show put on this week that had basically all comics that I thought I was friends with and was not asked to be a part of it. I really have no clue why I don't get asked to be on shows. I know I'm not a great promoter, but I think I'm somewhat funny. Maybe I'm wrong who knows. But I guess I can't just put people on at Winston's, expecting to get the favor returned. I need to focus on making my show the best I can, and not worry about what everyone else is doing.

Trains going fast..

Well I did another show last night. It was in a small bar, but there were a good amount of people that were there for the show and actually listening. I went up 3rd. Not going to lie I was pretty pissed about the spot I got. I got 10 minutes, and they put me on the show, but I guess I'm never satisfied. There was a couple people on the show that got more time then me, but I need to just be happy. I ended up having a pretty good set. I did one brand new joke, and a joke I hadn't done in probably 6 months. The show ended up going way too long and a lot of the crowd started leaving or paying less attention. I'm glad with the spot I got. I was a little bitter at first but I had a good set and made people laugh that had never seen me before so I'm not going to complain. I need to start being more positive, esp. considering I'm back to playing poker.
Today was a freaking long day. I worked 9-6, went to the gym, then played poker 730-2. I have the show tomorrow in Santa Ynez. I'm not sure how it's going to go but I'm going to hope for the best. Poker was a roller coaster. I was up 300 pretty quickly, then played pretty crappy and dropped all the way down to my last 100$, trippled up and sat around 300$ for awhile. Then ended the day up 350$ I played a little recklous, but made money so I need to be positive considering I made more in 6 hours then I make working 40 hours at the depot.
When I got home I got a message from a guy that is putting on a variety show at the end of the month. He said he had some spy at the show and they liked my set. He asked to book me. I said sure. It's on a Friday so I need to figure out a few more details. It's great when comedy and not politics pay off.

Errr.. I'm back on the train

I tried to take a break but don't think it's gonna happen. First off, wtf is up with some commercials. Just saw a commercial with humans riding a ostrich and they bust in and poke a man. That's awful.
Anyways the show last night was interesting. I had a few people from work that had never seen me, plus the new lady flame there. I hosted and then did a set. I planned all these new jokes to try but felt the pressure to be funny. I did different jokes, but nothing new. I did a pretty racist joke, that got basically all sighs and no laughs. I think it's funny, but it's prolly time to retire it. Anyways I had a decent set. The coworker first said I was funny then said I did alright. He was kind of drunk so I don't know what he really thought. I talked to him today he basically said the same thing. People don't realize how much their words effect a comedian. Anyways, I have some big shows this week, hopefully people think I'm funny.