open mic 10

Venue: Newmarket Hotel, Brisbane
Date: 22 November, 2010

This was my last night in Australia. What a night it was. I'm not going to pretend like I was on fire or anything, but it felt good and people laughed a lot. It went well, so there's nothing really significant to say about that.

I am going to pick up on something that happened after the show. One of the comics, a semi-pro working out of Sydney, mentioned that my writing and style might have been a bit too smart for the audience. This makes sense. I'm performing in bars, mostly. It's not exactly the most intellectual of places, but it's not the least either. I can't exactly bring in hundreds and thousands of people who like my material, so I have to play to the audience I'm given.

There are lots of comics out there I don't find funny. These same comics are hilarious to millions of people. It seems that just about anyone who performs could find maybe 10,000 people worldwide who think that they're funny. Its just the question of how do you find those people who think you're funny: by doing open mics over and over again, and getting more people exposed to your brand of humor.

So maybe I'm a bit too smart for the average open mic crowd. I'm not gonna change it. I'm not gonna dumb it down. I'm gonna do 490 more of these, and maybe then I'll find the 10,000 people who think I'm funny.