This is my open mic set from Jan 25. One of my friends and favorite comics showed up to this mic for the first time in a while and I’d previously told him I was going to parody his delivery one of these days. I decided to surprise him with it.
0m44s After Thursday’s showcase, I went drinking with another comic and a couple of his friends. One of the girl’s was asked if her boyfriend was hot and she said “not by traditional standards”. This was my first attempt at making a joke about that on stage.
0m55s The guy who says “yeahhh” in the background is who I was imitating.
1m30s Imitating Chris’s delivery was the most fun I’ve ever had on stage. Half the comics in the room were new and had no idea who Chris was and why I kept changing delivery like that.
1m59s I’m terrible at staying in character and not laughing.
2m36s Today was throw out ideas I wrote down in my joke book and see if they stick day. Some guy at a bar at 3 in the morning last night told me how his friend paid a Columbian girl to give him a hand yank after seeing she had 6 fingers. I found this hysterical enough at the time to write it down.
3m28s The boom box sound while I strip might be funny after the whole “I used to be a male stripper… for blind people” joke I actually do. I could also use this as a callback at some point later in the set.
3m45s “Are you wearing tear away pants?” is the person I was impersonating.
4m07s This is a great question to ask a girl in a bar after you’ve been talking to her for 20 minutes. Not a great question to riff off of on stage.
Overall: That was the most fun I’ve ever had on stage. I need to find a way to have this much fun when I’m doing my regular jokes. Don’t get me wrong, I still like it. But this was the first time I couldn’t stop cracking up at myself.
