Category: Comedy

This is the 10:30 show for the same night as the last set

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZf6EfD-77Y

0m21s I think the look might be more effective if I don’t move my head around so much and just dart my eyes from side to side instead 

1m48s The guy answered “he’s old” 

3m00s No need to say that it’s a great idea

3m11s End the sentence on “they beat me”, or better yet, don’t say this line 

3m25s A good pause after “third time this week” gets a good laugh 

3m42s More emphasis on “unemployment office” 

4m56s Great line “you guys are nice, I don’t like that”, no need to say “I like mean crowds” though 

5m38s Pause after “vicious” as I stopped a laugh 

Overall: I’m working on getting a tight six minute set that’s all laughs in order to submit my video to comedy festivals. (Many have a 6 minute limit on the video submission.) This wasn’t that set. I really need a larger audience

I wound up taking a week off of comedy due to training I had to do for my day job. This is me back in NYC with another small crowd 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzQiV7ugys

0m57s I find the “doesn’t laugh at a joke” opens up the crowd 

1m20s Perfect pause and turn of the head before saying “fallopian tubes” 

3m15s I’m saying “you know” way too much (twice) 

4m59s I needed to make my hand into a shot glass a second sooner 

Overall: Decent set considering I hadn’t been on stage for 8 days, but nothing to write home about

This is the same night as the previous set, but the 10:30 show. I hosted it, another small crowd of 8 or 10.

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

1m05s Not sure why I started my first real joke with this one

2m14s I always call Canada “Canadia”, I find it funny

2m40s If nobody else will compliment you, you gotta do it yourself

3m23s Need more emphasis on “reproductive organs”

3m44s It’s never a good set if “you must love sweaters” doesn’t get a laugh

4m58s I need to end the sentence with “they beat me” without having “in the back”

6m03s No need to give two examples before I do the actual joke 

6m14s The last two words need to be “enslave Tibet”, “sign” should go before those two words 

8m16s I’m glad “huge tubes” got a (relatively) good laugh cause hosting is tough

Overall: I think I did a good job hosting and mixing in crowd work with actual material. As a host, you shouldn’t expect to destroy an audience, so if you warm them up, you’ve done your job

Back in NYC and a small crowd

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ea3jawim0w

0m39s Point to the floor when I say “this” 

1m07s Pause for a second after “that is sexist” 

1m52s Combine this into one question of “what’d you get him for Christmas?” 

2m55s I missed the word “dog’s” between “click a” and “photo” 

5m01s When I do the girl voice, I should have my eyes look up to where I will be standing in five seconds responding to her

Overall: Small crowds are much harder to destroy than large crowds, but it’s a lot less painful if you don’t do well with a small crowd.

There were about 30 audience members in the crowd. 20 of which were high school kids from England and four others who wound up getting into a loud argument with the host… during my set.

 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxh_VDXiUg

0m24s The audience was yelling “next” when the host was up there for too long

0m41s When the audience is mostly male, I won’t open with my “he should be a model” joke.

0m45s You can hear the argument in the background

0m58s I tried being high energy the whole set because it was getting really awkward with the audience that was going back and forth with the comic

1m31s No clue what I was trying to say there, but it somehow got a laugh, eventually

1m48s Try rephrasing to “Sure that’s mean but I’m a stand up comedian, not a stand up guy”

2m37s Get rid of “it’s all downhill after stand up”

2m57s No need for both “that’s your first date” and “that warrants a second date”

3m30s You can hear more arguing, it was about 5 feet away from me. I was trying to be as loud and focused on the kids as possible as they kept looking over at the argument

4m14s Seriously, if you have a high school crowd for me to do a set in front of, email me

4m58s The emphasis on “huge” was correct, but “tubes” was off

6m45s I should try to work the whole “when I tell older people, they don’t laugh, they just think, shit I wish I knew that twenty years ago” into my regular dog joke

7m47s Slightly longer pause needed after “prostitution”

8m55s Not only do I get a loud argument, but I get a phone going off, I love distractions

9m35s I think telling underage kids to “watch out” was hysterical 

Part 2

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBb05sGkw-g

Overall: I’m really proud of the way I was able to have tunnel vision and completely ignore the argument between some of the crowd and the host. If you follow this blog, you may be used to a lot of stuff not getting laughs so this is a good set to see a lot of my jokes actually working.