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Performance Critique 19: Jan 30A

This is me back at the place in NYC where I freeze my balls off in Times Square for 3 hours in exchange for time. I was extra cold tonight and still warming up when I got onstage.

 

0m04s The emcee  is supposed to pretend to be everyone’s best friend, or at least that they’re funny. He’s not supposed to put doubt about the comic’s ability into the audience’s mind. 

0m14s It’s supposed to be “He’s adorable… and then he opens his mouth.” Not “until he…” 

0m52s It’s time to bury the management consultant joke. 

1m06s It’s time to bury the executive assistant joke. 

1m14s I should try writing more about food servers turned waiters, or using it somewhere else. 

3m31s Good save when nobody laughed at the “assume they’re death.” 

3m46s I think I can rework the premise of this joke to be shorter, “People say getting on stage takes balls. Nobody ever says, that takes tits.” 

4m15s I need to come up with a better example of “Huge Tubes”, or figure out what kind of audiences I can do this joke with. This joke gets the most inconsistent laughs. 

5m22s I’m slowly learning that longer pauses cause a second round of laughter. 

5m33s After keep it going for your host, I should’ve said “I don’t know if he’s funny. I hope he’s not sucking.”

Overall: I got big laughs in 3 or 4 places but had too many dead spots. I ended strong though.

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