Following Bobby? Feb 22

A surprise guest last night. Bob Marley showed up. He's popped in before, and all I could think before was thank God I didn't have to follow him. Well, I had to follow him. It went well actually. In fact it went great. The crowd was pretty decent for a Wednesday, and I had friends in the room. Bobby picked up the tempo of the room, and when I went on, I just went full force. It actually helped me out in a way, I was planning on going in with more energy this week and he kind of made it so I had to. Thanks Bob.

I got to do housekeeping rules last night. Not a big deal, but cool to me. I got to go out at the beginning of the show and ask people to please mind their chatter during the show and silence their cell phones. You know the common sense stuff.

My material was pretty well put together, trying to tie it down for Portland's Funniest. It felt good to be up there. Everyone told me I had a good set, and I know it wasn't an empty compliment last night. Even Bob said it looked like I was having fun. My new material went over well, 2 out of my 7 jokes were new. I plan on running more new stuff next time, as long as it isn't the competition. I don't want to go running new material and have it not work there. All I can say is I felt good for last night, the crowd was awesome, and the comedy cup was full. Last night is the reason I got into stand up comedy. By the by, I got away with another awkward rape joke. I don't know why I feel like slipping those in. Maybe because all the comics say you shouldn't do them, but if I get one more, I'll call it a hat trick.

I'll update the blog when I have my next dates aside from March 16th. Hope to see you out there. And if Mike's still the only person reading this blog, too bad you weren't there last night, you would've been proud of the kid.

Portland's Funniest Date Set

This is just a quick message I'm shooting out to let people know that I am going to be doing Portland's Funniest at the Comedy Connection in March. My date is Thursday March 16th, show starts at 8:00 PM. It'll be the day after my birthday, and the day before St Patty's. It the hat trick of days to make a funny Irish boy like me smile. Hope to see you there. Don't show up to see me on the 17th though, I'll probably be drunk and eating corned beef. Unless you're into that, then just go ahead and enjoy it. Eggs and kegs start at 6AM ;)

Eh......

I guess that's all I can say about last night's show. It was okay, and I had a good set, but the energy wasn't there. Not that anybody really tore it up last night, the feel of the room was just a little deflated. I can't say anyone got up and killed, except for the last joke Karen Morgan told about liking crazy sex. That got a large group of guys stage left hollering and calling her a MILF and what not. She was funny though.

I'm not disappointed, I'll just have to try and focus more next time. I've gotten the better of quieter audiences before, and my energy is just as important to the show as anyone else's. A few people came up to me after the show last night and said I did great, but my opinion of my set was just.... eh....

I know I'm probably being harder on myself than I need to, but I really want to put out a quality product. That's why I nit pick my performances and even if I do well, I can get easily disappointed.

Another 2 weeks until the 22nd back at the Connection. I guess I'll see what I pull out there. It's looking like I'll have more friends at that one, so I'll have to try and bring my "A" game.