This is an open mic I go to often and this time one of the comics brought 8 or 10 of his friends. So I ditched most of the new jokes I wanted to try and decided to do more of my good material.
0m54s I decided to try to shorten my dog joke because I wanted to win them over but leave enough time to try other material.
2m55s Explain the Saw movies without a pause
3m25s Remove the part about kids. I removed half of it since the last time I tried this joke, but I feel it will be best without it.
4m14s I just realized how funny this accidental transition was.
4m28s I should have said “and you ARE surprised, then they WERE normal”
Overall: I was very pleased with how well the backwards dating joke did. I need to work out that last joke about the definition of normal.
Hey Ben,
I’m assuming you’re a big fan of Seinfeld (who isn’t) so I thought you might like this video, if you haven’t seen it already:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2957800637110804770
I love the quote he has about 25 minutes in.
Charlie “A young comedian comes to you and says, you know, tell me what I need to know to be a comedian, what do you tell him?”
Seinfeld “Just work.”