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.
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