Open mic 14

Venue: Silverlake Lounge
Date: 11 March, 2011

What took me so long? A combination of fear, laziness and rain. After being snubbed by a campus comedy group, I was afraid that maybe I'd lost my edge. I was also a little lazy in getting over there because driving in LA is just annoying enough that I don't want to do it unless I have to. I'm the same way about laundry, grocery shopping and flossing. And rain because rain makes every LA driver an idiot.

The room:
Well, it's dark. It appears that it's mostly comedians, who have their own sense of humor, by which I mean they perform their piece and then vamoose. The rest of them kind of chill in the back. A lot of it is comics playing to comics, so there's in-jokes that I don't really get.

I did pretty good. I started off a bit slow, but got good near the end. I think the stuff that's true is better than the stuff that's funny. Maybe the stuff that's 'me being me' is the funniest stuff.

The lessons learned here are kind of useful.
1) Learn how to work my voice recorder. It will serve me well.
2) go up in the top 10. People bounced after the first 10, so I'm playing to the largest audience possible.
3) That wasn't so bad. It's comics, so nobody's going to laugh anyways. Go out there and get yourself heard, Nick.