Bumped!

The Wednesday Dec 14th show never actually happened this week. There was a private party that conflicted with the time slot, so the Karen Morgan Wednesday show got bumped. I got another show in January though to make up for it. Upcoming shows are all at the Comedy Connection, Portland: January 18, 26th, February 8th and finally the 22nd of Feb. I’m getting excited to try some more new stuff and another style change. If you’ve caught my act already, it couldn’t hurt to check it out again. I like to mix it up. I reworked a couple of my bits and I’m pretty jazzed to give them the treatment. Until then, bye.

Saturday Dec 10th 2005

The Place- Spectator’s Comedy Barn in Sanford Maine. The mood- awkward. It was a weird night. Here’s the thing. I had a decent set. In fact it was pretty positive. I tried a couple new jokes that went over well. And as far as I know the rest of my set went fairly decent too. Here’s the rub. There were less audience members than comedians. There were perhaps 4 paying audience members, 3 guys that left halfway through the show, and the owner and 2 of his friends. This was a new experience.

I can see where this place would be great on a regular night, but it was just so quiet in there it felt like a tough room. It was really strange. Everyone seemed to have a good set, but it was like that question about a tree falling in the woods and nobody is around to hear it. It was more like, if you have a great punch line and nobody is around to hear it. It’s another life lesson in the comedy world, but honestly, I’m not sure how many nights like that I can take. Even if you do well, you can’t help but feel like you failed at the end of it.
The next night is on Wednesday back in Portland. We’ll see what happens then. I have a funny feeling it’ll be another quiet night, but I guess that’s the business.

December 8th, Comedy Connection Portland

It feels good to be back at the place where I had my workshop. It feels comfortable. The crowd was great tonight. The club was a little under half full, but it seemed the crowd was pretty positive. Half the crowd pulled up in a stretch Hummer.After the Lewiston show I was having some doubts about doing more sets, but I’m glad I plodded through. I had a great set. Steve Couette (sp?) emceed tonight, and he did a great job warming up the crowd.

I tried something new. I wasn’t feeling super comfortable from before. I was running a specific set that I had to memorize. It felt forced. I did my set without a set list tonight. I just went up and had some new and old stuff and played more with the crowd. It felt more spontaneous. I’m fully aware of how risky it was, it could’ve gone horribly wrong, but I think this way I got to get into a better rhythm with the crowd. Good stuff. I did about 50/50 new and previously performed bits. I even did a bit that Tim told me wasn’t working for me, and it went over great. I think I mixed in a decent mix of thought provoking and poopie humor at the same time.

There were three big surprises for the night. First off, I got paid for the Confetti’s gig. That caught me off guard; I thought I was working free for a while. Then Bob Marley showed up too. I was nervous that he’d be going on before me, but thank the lord he didn’t. He was en fuego last night. It would’ve been tough to follow him. There was one last comic to follow him, and she was good. I liked her set a lot, but the best part was her closer. She takes 2 plastic recorder flutes and puts one in each nostril, and proceeds to play a Christmas Carol with her nose. Brilliant!
There’s another show on Saturday in Sanford at Spectators. Looking more forward to it now. Will update after that show too.