Category: Performance Critiques

This is the feedback mic I go to on Sundays

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELy6YCloiM

0m58s I missed doing an act out of what I sounded like

1m15s Alliteration is when you reuse the same sounds

2m23s I didn’t realize that line got a laugh until I just rewatched it

3m44s Explain “when you get out of it” better

3m54s No need for an act out there

Overall: I tried out some new jokes and some of them worked. They all need to be fixed up, but at least there’s potential. New jokes always take me a few weeks to figure out (sometimes longer).

This is the 10:30 and I’m MCing

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

0m27s I think over the last two days I’ve learned not to open with this joke

2m45s One of these days I’ll be able to make jokes while doing crowd work

4m02s I should reuse “I’m smarter then I look”

5m20s If someone groans my better response is “when someone groans I can’t tell if they’re a child molester or… a child molester”

6m08s I pointed to my hickee

Overall: I warmed up the crowd and got a few good laughs. When the room isn’t packed, that’s the best I hope for as an MC. I also shouldn’t ever open a set with the “ex on the street” joke.

Part 2 – The Check Spot

This is the same show as the previous post, but this is me doing the check spot. When the show is running on or ahead of schedule, the MC will do the check spot (the time when everyone gets their checks and pays the waitresses).

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

1m08s Nobody is really listening, this is why the MC should do the spot, as they’ve already done their normal material

1m52s The previous comic made it a little awkward with that group

2m46s I decided to talk over the conversations because they’re paying their bill

Overall for the Checkspot: I don’t mind doing the check spot when I’m the MC, but it’s not exactly a spot to learn which of your material works.

This is the 8:30 show

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

0m03s I didn’t ask for the intro as I’ve stopped doing it

0m15s But I had to go with it and do the joke

2m05s I had a big hickey on my neck, some girl in the audience commented on it

5m42s I love how the girl up front has ADD and keeps asking “what?”

Overall: Not a pretty set. I started strong and then went nowhere. I think I lost them when I didn’t respond to the “loving tennis” comment from the crowd. If I wasn’t dedicated to uploading and critiquing all of my sets, this would be one that would never see the light of day

This is me on the midnight show

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

0m11s The previous comic took the camera of the girl sitting right up front and left the room with it, it was a really funny closer, but sucked for me because now the front center of the room is worrying about their camera and not fully listening to me

0m50s She was talking a lot so I had to address it

2m43s I love how that gets the big laugh

2m59s I didn’t do the Amazon voice the right way

3m41s No reason to say “over drinks”

4m25s Two big laughs in four and a half minutes… not good

Overall: This set got a couple of big laughs but it was mostly crickets. I think the camera being taken right before me messed up the vibe of the room a bit. This was a rough night of comedy. None of my four sets did particularly well but at least it was stage time…

This is the 10:30 show, a small crowd and I’m MCing

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VkSN4MSUok

0m52s My best laugh of the set

3m21s I’m waiting for someone to answer “anything you want”

3m52s I shouldn’t talk to more than two sets of people before doing a joke

4m55s This crowd is giving me nothing

5m26s That could’ve been delivered with more anger (not that it would’ve mattered with this set)

6m08s At least I acknowledged the situation

6m20s This was going so poorly that I didn’t even bother to close with a joke

Overall: I bombed. Even for an MC when you don’t get many strong laughs, this was bad. The energy of the room was low to begin with and I didn’t do much to bring it up.