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.