The House Was Packed..... Not Really.

Last night was funny, but not really so much for the show itself. Club Gemini in Bangor is the room I liked doing before and last night was my last one there as I’m winding down. There were only 9 people in the audience and the comics. The employees of the club sat down and watched, I’m presuming so that it would look like people were there.

I went up second after Tuck Tucker, who had just got done working the room over about as well as was going to happen last night. I think I had a good set and felt good about it. I even got laughs throughout, even though as Luke pointed out all of my jokes were “crotchular”. Upon review only about 70% of them were, but it was an alarming amount, but that doesn’t change the fact that Luke’s a “Dowsch-bag!”. I ran a few new jokes and did probably about 17 minutes. It went pretty well except my closer ended of deaf ears. What are you going to do when there’s only single digit audience? Dustin went up next, and had a rough go of it, and then Sean Carr, and closed out by Luke. I think we were all disappointed that it was such a small and quiet crowd, but all-in-all it didn’t much matter.

The road trip up was pretty funny. The jokes and barbs were flying. Somehow we got on the kick of doing impressions of other local comics, and it all exploded when we started doing our Tuck Tucker impersonation. He seemed to be oblivious to the fact that he has a very distinct Indiana accent that sounds like a calmed down Shaggy from Scooby Doo. We laughed pretty much the whole time up and back and this morning my voice is horse due to lack of sleep and all the chuckles. On the way back however, Luke needed something to eat so we stopped at a 24 hour convenience store. There was a young girl working all by herself and it was just about midnight. Tuck kept asking her questions that were really sketchy. I’m not going to go into specifics on what he said, because it may or may not be incriminating, but he did ask her when he was at the check-out if she’d ever been robbed. It was exactly the wrong thing to say at the wrong time, but if I were in that girl’s shoes, I would’ve been a bit freaked out. I apologized for him and we went on our way without any police intervention.

The funniest part of the whole night for me was the moment when Tuck was onstage doing his set, and he started telling the joke we were doing on the ride up while we poked fun at him. “A Taco and a Neyap!”. It’s out of context right now, but when he was doing it onstage he was starting to crack up, which had the other comics rolling because we were in on it. The crowd was laughing pretty hard too, but it was obvious that they didn’t really know why. It was classic.

Two more scheduled shows coming up at the Portland Comedy Connection. Feb 1st, and I found out that Dustin’s on the bill that night too, as well as Feb 11th. Other than that, I’m still waiting to hear back on what date I get to do Portland’s Funniest, and then it will be done. Once again, thanks to all my regular blog readers, I hope it’s been fun to read up until now, there’s only a few more left.