There were about 30 audience members in the crowd. 20 of which were high school kids from England and four others who wound up getting into a loud argument with the host… during my set.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxh_VDXiUg
0m24s The audience was yelling “next” when the host was up there for too long
0m41s When the audience is mostly male, I won’t open with my “he should be a model” joke.
0m45s You can hear the argument in the background
0m58s I tried being high energy the whole set because it was getting really awkward with the audience that was going back and forth with the comic
1m31s No clue what I was trying to say there, but it somehow got a laugh, eventually
1m48s Try rephrasing to “Sure that’s mean but I’m a stand up comedian, not a stand up guy”
2m37s Get rid of “it’s all downhill after stand up”
2m57s No need for both “that’s your first date” and “that warrants a second date”
3m30s You can hear more arguing, it was about 5 feet away from me. I was trying to be as loud and focused on the kids as possible as they kept looking over at the argument
4m14s Seriously, if you have a high school crowd for me to do a set in front of, email me
4m58s The emphasis on “huge” was correct, but “tubes” was off
6m45s I should try to work the whole “when I tell older people, they don’t laugh, they just think, shit I wish I knew that twenty years ago” into my regular dog joke
7m47s Slightly longer pause needed after “prostitution”
8m55s Not only do I get a loud argument, but I get a phone going off, I love distractions
9m35s I think telling underage kids to “watch out” was hysterical
Part 2
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBb05sGkw-g
Overall: I’m really proud of the way I was able to have tunnel vision and completely ignore the argument between some of the crowd and the host. If you follow this blog, you may be used to a lot of stuff not getting laughs so this is a good set to see a lot of my jokes actually working.
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