This is a set from an open mic on January 23rd. I was planning on taking the night off after feeling shitty about how my set went the day before, but when I got home (slightly trashed) at 2 AM, I decided I had to get on stage again. Comedy has become like crack rock to me. And if I don’t stop doing open mics soon, it’ll be just as expensive! The strangest thing was I didn’t even want to tell jokes (although I did eventually), I just wanted to get back on stage and work on what I thought was most lacking the night before.
0m08s The host introduced me something like “I know him and he’s hysterical” so I felt the need to reply to that.
0m54s “Shit!” needs to be more in the moment. Like I just realized the insult this instant. Instead of “he was insulting me” maybe try “he got me good!”
1m00s No need to say “Yesterday I got what I thought was a compliment someone told me that…” I can shorten that to “Yesterday someone told me that my jokes were well written.” And give an incredulous look right after.
1m38s Now you see where that “I can’t sing, dance or rap” joke came from. The next Notorious B.I.G. I am not.
2m21s The word “long” should drag out and needs to have a tone that implies “how ridiculous”.
3m15s Don’t mumble real words. If they laugh, I can then call back to this anytime I want to make the audience laugh by doing more crazy mumbling.
3m49s Sometimes people will stop laughing for a second, you’ll start telling a joke, and they’ll start laughing at the previous joke again. I like to pause and let them get it out but I wish they wouldn’t stop laughing in the first place.
4m00s This mic gives out a “prime time spot” during the following week to the funniest performer who didn’t use notes. The shows tend to run 3 hours. Which is about 70 minutes more than the best audience’s attention span.
4m34s There’s nothing quite like giving the host a good back handed compliment.
4m46s The host was giving me the light and said “I don’t want to but I have to.” I’m glad she was having fun.
5m53s Sassi (the host) likes to play off of the comics sets and always wants them to give her a “yes and…” escalation to her suggestion. I have yet to actually kick a girl out for getting to fat. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against doing so. I just tell my girlfriends about “I’ll dump you if you get fat” while we’re dating and they miraculously don’t get fat. That’s what we call “managing expectations”.
Overall: I had fun just being back on stage and I’m well on my way to developing an obsession with standup.
Why’d you post a 6-minute video of a crackhead on stage? You’re clearly an addict.
Seriously though, I like that unemployment joke. Nice.