This is me doing another comedy contest, this time in Orange County. (There are five open mic sets that are audio only between my last critique and this one.) Before I came on stage, the mic was having issues, so they stopped the show to fix it. This is important to keep in mind as you watch this hilarious disaster
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMS3fnErAPU
0m09s I always get confused with what to do while music plays
0m18s Wireless mic starts going haywire right away
0m25s Great flow stopper
0m31s Good job rewinding to the start and keeping my cool
0m33s And then I go into the wrong opening joke
0m35s That jesus Christ was mostly about me forgetting how I wanted to start, but the mic also went out
0m42s Quitting on the mic seemed like the only reasonable thing to do at this point
0m51s You can see my priceless look of “oh shit, what’s my first joke again?”
1m07s And the cord is stuck
1m20s This concludes my most awkward minute on stage, ever.
2m33s Weird tonality on “fallopian tubes”
3m39s Interesting that “maybe” didn’t get a laugh
4m41s Asking the audience took too long
6m07s It was a big guy
8m30s Not sure I how lost them on three punch lines in a row
8m34s I need to smile at the end of this line
8m37s This is my usual closer but I hadn’t gotten the one minute light, so I kept going with whatever joke came into my head
Overall: The first minute and a half of this tape is worth watching just for the hysterical awkwardness of mic malfunctions. I was definitely thrown off by the super malfunction of the mic (during which I forgot my opening joke at one point) and the tape looks better than I actually felt after getting off stage. (I didn’t place in the top four, and I didn’t expect that I would given my set.) However, this was good practice for reacting to everything going wrong at future shows.
