open mic 30

Date: 15 June, 2011
Venue: The Spot Cafe

The big 3-0. The dirty thirty. The new 20. This isn't a big milestone, but it has a lot of names because the number 30 has a really good PR team. Not good enough to get it a gig on Sesame Street, but better than a lot of other numbers in the past 25 range.

It did not go well. I'm okay with that. I present now some signs that you're going to bomb.

-You're on late during a really long show.
-You're telling brand-spanking-new material without a lot of practice.
-The brand-new material relies heavily on remembering it verbatim.

You can see where I went wrong. I've accidentally bought a car, I got my current job because I applied to it on a whim and I went to my college of choice because I kinda liked a song by the band Fleetwood Mac. I've accidentally stumbled through my life, somehow managing to hit a lot of the major achievement points along the way. I now know what the guy who invented drifting feels like. It really looks like comedy requires effort.

So, I'm gonna put in effort. Not just thinking effort. Saying effort. Performing effort. Writing effort. And because I'm publicly telling people this, I'm gonna look like an idiot if I don't. The next open mic is Friday. I'm gonna be in my top form and I'm going to be super prepared.