Venue: Corner Bar
Date: 17 December, 2010
I saw the Dez.
Here's the backstory: In my senior year of high school (the prehistory of this blog and my standup "career"), I performed at a venue called Cosmics. One of the comics who also performed at Cosmics was a guy called The Dez.
Cut to 4 years later. We're performing in a better room. However, I'm using a lot of the same jokes, albeit with some reworking of the premises. The Dez is also doing a little of the same material, but it feels different. Has much really changed these last 4 years?
Maybe. I'm able to go out and see more things now. I have 4 more years of experience under my belt. I've seen most of college and a place in Australia.
I think there's something interesting about looking at my comedy moment to moment, seeing where it takes me and how I feel about it in that moment. But if after 4 years, I'm still doing a couple of the same jokes, then I'm probably not changing things up that much. I should look at it year by year.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
open mic 12
Venue: Corner Bar Comedy Underground
Date: 10 December, 2010
There is a problem... I've hit a sort of plateau. Not some sort of awesome high plateau where I cannot come down from that. More like a 'decent' level where there's not too much to complain about, but also not too much to get excited about. But I'm gonna try and give lessons out of this. That's right, this blog is gonna be advice from a guy who's not qualified to give advice.
Three minutes per week isn't that much. I need to do more open mics and I need to get one of them voice recorders. That way, I'll be able to actually get more experience about which jokes I can cut.
I think I'm gonna have to cut the 'Martin Bryant' joke, if only because I apparently look a lot more like Jeremy Davies. And that's a good thing.
Date: 10 December, 2010
There is a problem... I've hit a sort of plateau. Not some sort of awesome high plateau where I cannot come down from that. More like a 'decent' level where there's not too much to complain about, but also not too much to get excited about. But I'm gonna try and give lessons out of this. That's right, this blog is gonna be advice from a guy who's not qualified to give advice.
Three minutes per week isn't that much. I need to do more open mics and I need to get one of them voice recorders. That way, I'll be able to actually get more experience about which jokes I can cut.
I think I'm gonna have to cut the 'Martin Bryant' joke, if only because I apparently look a lot more like Jeremy Davies. And that's a good thing.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
The 500 Open Mics christmas list
Hey nobody in particular!
It's that time of year, and I'm a greedy capitalist at heart. But this is the list of stuff I should get for my comedy career, to get me out there better.
- A professional headshot
- A voice recorder
- Business cards
- An update of my website that has all kinds of material about me on it.
I probably should get video of me doing stand-up on youtube at some point. That's a near-future goal.
It's that time of year, and I'm a greedy capitalist at heart. But this is the list of stuff I should get for my comedy career, to get me out there better.
- A professional headshot
- A voice recorder
- Business cards
- An update of my website that has all kinds of material about me on it.
I probably should get video of me doing stand-up on youtube at some point. That's a near-future goal.
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.
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.
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