This is my regular weekday place in Washington, DC. This was the most crowded it’s ever been on a weekday, there was a group of 20 middle aged employees from North Dakota and another 6 or 8 audience members.
0m29s I should’ve stepped to the front of the stage before delivering my first punch line, not after.
0m56s I should’ve turned to the woman who repeated “tennis” when delivering my next line.
1m47s Final evidence that I have to say “I’m looking at you” before the “huge tubes” line.
2m05s I love how the guy kept saying “yup” and I kept echoing him.
2m35s The bigger the group I pick on for this, the bigger the laugh. It seems that big groups in general enjoy being made fun of.
2m41s I’m trying something a pro comic told me about. He said the closer people are, the easier it is to get laughs. So I tried moving 4 girls and a guy that were far back to the front row.
3m18s Two of the four girls followed the guy to the front row for my set, but went back to their seats right after.
3m35s I could definitely smile here without losing anything from my act.
4m40s I should’ve said “I can tell who has kids in here” since all the older people laughed.
5m18s I need to remember the word order right here, as I turned a premise into a punch line by mistake.
5m22s If you can’t hear it, the woman said “That’s not how we do it in North Dakota”
5m45s I’m not sure if “Marry Her” needs to stay part of the joke. Especially if they laugh at the previous line.
6m04s This makes for two times in the past 4 performances that I’ve ended a set by calling out how a joke failed (or didn’t do as well as it usually does). I should save the “I like how you wanna laugh, but you’re like ‘I can’t laugh at this, this is terrible’” line for the many other times this will be applicable.
6m07s Say my name while looking the audience, not while turning to the mic stand.
Overall: I think this was a pretty solid set. I’m glad my backwards relationship joke is coming along (although it still needs some tightening). I was also pleased with being able to get some of the audience members to trust me and move up front.
Awful!