Category: Comedy

This is the main room at Broadway Comedy club with an actual 100 person audience

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkiM3sDo5c

1m35s I love how I have one person applauding

2m09s This joke needs to move to the start of my set as it’s gets the best reaction

2m50s The laugh was all in the pause

3m04s Nice reaction

4m42s I think the “shelter” line is going too mean in most instances

Overall: Good set but not amazing — it felt a lot better in person. I learned that I should move the “Igor likes this joke” to the beginning of my set and that I should put my camera in the middle of the room, not to the side.

Small weekday crowd

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuxuESEFm3w

1m29s So far this feels like I’m at an open mic

2m46s I said “fallopian tubes” instead of “tubes” because I didn’t do the regular “huge tubes” joke earlier in the set

4m02s I need to stop the thesaurus line, seriously

4m59s I need to commit to the character more

5m47s Great question “are you her dad or a Woody Allen type?”

Overall: I bombed while working out mostly new jokes but at least I came up with a funny question.

Doing a check spot

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9vavpWVO4

0m04s I don’t like when an MC says “he’s new on the scene”

1m22s The first two tubes lines didn’t have a pause at the end

2m11s I need to change my voice tonality for “Igor likes this”

2m44s It would work better to say “I can see you guys got a little uncomfortable… because that usually gets an applause break”

2m58s Instead of “you might know” I should say “you look like you know”

3m56s Instead of asking “was that too far” I should admit “you’re right, that was too far”

4m32s True story, the girl it happened with knows I do this joke

5m04s More emphasis on the word “whole”

6m07s This improv-ed line is a keeper “there’s nervous laughter back there, like, ‘shit I should cancel my account’”

7m33s I thought I had stopped doing the thesaurus line three weeks ago, it needs to stop

Overall: Not terrible for a check spot and I came up with an off-the-cuff line that I’ll re-use. Also, the PEZ characters line is new and needs work, and the thesaurus joke should’ve been dropped long ago.

At the writer’s mic.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWIQ1JjSd4

1m15s Instead of “you might know” I should say “you look like you know”

2m08s I like the PEZ container line too

3m13s Get rid of “help me please”

Overall: I worked out two newer jokes and my newest punch line about PEZ containers worked.

I’m the final comic on the Midnight Show

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCt2f30tuM

1m17s I’ve never heard someone say “my ass fell asleep” that definitely warrants going off on a tangent

4m47s It makes more sense if I talk about trying online dating first before talking about the different websites

7m08s Great improv line

8m01s Good job playing on previous concepts

8m43s Always smart to ruin the flow of my last joke to figure out if an audience member is a guy

Overall: I was able to take something that occurred with the audience in the beginning of the set “my ass fell asleep” and play off of it during later parts of the set with “did your mouth fall asleep?” and “sorry, my ears fell asleep”. This is the first time I was able to do callbacks to an unplanned joke and I think is one of the keys to good crowd work. (The set itself was good but nothing amazing.)