Month: October 2009

Weeknight show with a small (but English speaking! unlike last night…) crowd, and my eyes are still messed up so I’m in glasses

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QEjUoeaadE

0m20s Good pause to get the laugh

1m05s To this point of the set, I’m moving a very nice, slow pace. I should always go at this speed

3m48s It’d be a good call back to say, “You won’t have to know it anymore, cause once you get engaged, you keep the baby”

4m23s Commit more to my act out of trying to rip the package open

5m12s I think PEZ Character names are hysterical, but the audience doesn’t seem to agree… I hate when my new favorite line doesn’t work

Overall: This is the best tonality, pacing and waiting for the audience to catch up that I’ve done in a while. The morning after pill joke didn’t go over as well as I would’ve liked. I need to find a way to get the audience to relax about a (potentially) controversial topic. Calling them out on getting nervous might do the trick.

The 10:30 show on a Monday, another 10-12 person audience

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFREVILQlI

1m15s Saying something like this is usually the equivalent of throwing in the towel

1m27s But it sorta paid off, as the guy said that they were all foreign, so I changed the joked I was gonna do

2m35s With the changed set list, I actually get a good laugh

3m47s I had fun explaining this one

4m33s First time in months I did the subway joke, I decided this was a more physical joke, and a better chance the foreign audience would get it

5m03s And that idea didn’t work that well

6m17s No idea why I thought that joke would get a laugh when it takes Americans a few seconds to figure it out

7m10s Throw in a “woah” before “mom, they’re not all drunks”

7m27s At least I ended on a laugh

Overall: Doing stand up for people who don’t speak English as a first language will grow some hair on your chest. Once I figured out what was going on (after the first 90 seconds) I had fun with it and it worked out-ish.