The crowd was Mini, but it felt Mighty.

I’m very pleased with last night’s set. It was a great time for me. Someone cancelled, which gave me an extra minute of stage time, but then while I was onstage I mentioned going over that time anyhow, and I heard Al Doucharme(sp?) say I was fine. That was cool. I just told jokes and didn’t think about time.

The crowd felt really good. It wasn’t even a quarter full, but the crowd laughed like it was at least half to three quarters full. I had some friends there, (Big ups to Spud, Lesley, Eric, and Angela. The support felt nice) and even parents of friends showed up. I was a little nervous about that because I figured my potty mouth might offend them, but they seemed cool with it. As always my fiance Heidi was there, and I sure appreciate her coming to all my shows. I tried more new stuff and even made a couple things up on the spot. It was great. Even a joke that I’ve been told by my fiancé and other comics not to do went over well. I couldn’t help it, I liked the joke, and my old drummer, Eric, was there so I figured he and I have pretty much the same sense of humor and at least he’d laugh. Come to find out most of the crowd had a touch of sick humor in them last night and it worked great. “Welcome to the set awkward rape joke”.

After the show, the headliner pulled me aside and said I had really great and funny material. Tom Ryan told me I had a great set too, which felt nice because he’s one of my favorite local comics. Erin Cyr closed out the show, and if you haven’t seen her set, catch it. I’m not going to blow her material for her, but she closes the set in the best fashion.

One other thing was funny to me about last night too. It was one of those “Take the pebble from my hand grasshopper,” type of moments. There was a young woman came up to me after the show and told me I was funny and my material is well written. I knew she had to be a comic of some sort, so I asked. She’s in Tim’s class currently. That’s one of those statements you usually only hear from comics. People will tell you you’re funny etc, but when they comment on the crafting of your jokes, they usually look for those kinds of things because they’re writing and appreciate how you put it together. It was really funny to me, because I talked to her about how fun the class is and how much I got out of it. I also told her to enjoy the graduation show, because it’s one of the best crowds you’ll get. I heard it all myself a few months ago. It was kind of surreal. Not that I’ve made it or anything, I’m just trying to encourage other people to do it if they’re interested. It’s been fun up to this point.

Next show scheduled is on Feb 8th at the Portland Comedy Connection at 8:30 again. If anything else pops up in the meantime, I’ll update the blog.

2 shows for the moral price of 1?

Last night’s show was great. Great crowd, I had a great set, and it vindicated the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I’m not into to make money, and if you think you can just start out and make money you’re fooling yourself. I think I’m up to a total of $40 so far for earnings, but lets keep that on the hush. I’d hate to have to claim that on my taxes.

The main reason I started was to make people laugh. It feels like a struggle sometimes to get on stage with the anxiety and everything, but when it works, it feels great. It was supposed to be the Karen Morgan show last night, but I guess she was doing a funniest moms thing and couldn’t make it. We had George Hamm as our host last night, and he did a great job. He can really keep the crowd going, and he keeps the mood light in between sets. Great host. The club was probably about three quarters full, and I’d say at least a third of those folks came to see Nick Gill. He was in my workshop too. He had a good set too, I’d say better than his graduation show.

My set was a lot of newer material. I went commando as far as not having a set list, but I think I’ll reel that in for next week and be a little more focused. It still went well and I even told a joke I hadn’t written down or thought out or anything. I know that isn’t a good thing to do because my set could go sour. It was kind of fun though, it felt a bit more risky, but I felt like I could read the crowd a little better and go with jokes that seemed to be working alright.

Now for the other show mentioned. I would’ve mentioned this one before, but I hadn’t had a chance to update the blog until today. I had a set this past Saturday at Spectator’s in Sanford again, but that was also the night of the Patriots game. There were 6 comics that were booked, but nobody showed up for the show. I’m not entirely sure if it was the weather, there was so much fog it was kind of dangerous to drive, or if it was that people wanted to stay home and watch the game. The club owner asked around to see if anyone wanted to go to the comedy show, but only 2 people said yes, but only if all the comics were done by the 3rd quarter. The show was called due to lack of an audience. Those are the breaks.

I do have another show next week on the 26th in Portland, and I’m hoping it goes even half as well as last night.