This is a 4pm open mic, there are five other comedians in the room
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBkpECDEjs
0m32s It was an accidental pause between “dropped out of a phd program in neuroeconomics” and “because it was getting in the way of comedy” but that pause might cause the line to get a laugh
1m32s I didn’t do a big enough smile after the line
3m01s It was a server putting down candles, whoops
4m01s Start the scroll slow, then speed it up, this can be stretched out for dramatic effect
5m35s I’m excited about this joke, but I need to make it a lot shorter
5m57s This is me trying to write a joke on stage, it’s a lot harder to do this at an open mic than with a real audience
6m56s I did a similar version of this joke off the top of my head in improv class two days earlier and it got a huge laugh, but I didn’t write it out and tighten it for stand up yet, and it shows
9m23s Decent improvised reaction
9m33s This isn’t me doing a joke, I’m just working on being conversational on stage
Part 2
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwGn_wgYTh0
Overall: Even at a five person open mic I still learned something (mostly because this was a lot of new material that these comics hadn’t heard before). The Yelp joke needs to be a lot shorter but has potential and the superpower joke will be funny once I figure out how to present it. It was nice to be able to do a set longer than seven minutes, even if it was for other comics.
