open mic 11

Date: 3 December, 2010
Venue: The Corner bar, Minneapolis

My US re-debut! That, plus I hadn't done stand-up for a couple weeks. Plus, I hadn't done stand-up in this venue in like 6 months. Lotta pluses going on tonight.

The Corner Bar's Comedy Underground is held in a basement under the bar. It's a dedicated room: everyone who's there is there for a reason. The downside is that it's kind of hard to find the room in the first place... it's a little out-of-the-way, and there's not much in the way of signage to get you there. Here, the rules are different. You sign up the night of the event, and you get maybe as little as 3 minutes, maybe as much as seven. It seems to work.

But you really don't care about logistics. You care about the emotional pathos of it all. DID I SUCK?

Nope. I didn't exactly rock it out of the park, but people laughed. I was a bit out of sorts and I didn't have a set list going. All of this made me nervous. Next week, next week. I was really excited because I actually had an audience of supportive person (singular) there to cheer me on. Now that I know that people will laugh at my jokes, things are better. I need to visit more open mics, but I also need to get good tires on my car.

500... here I come.