Overheard Backstage peers behind the curtain (or brick wall) into the offstage area where comics gossip, bicker, and make each other laugh.
My friend Andrew was talking on the phone with a comedy club owner, the latter trying to book Andrew to perform at a particularly unappealing show. During the phone call, one of those odd moments happened where everyone in the room was suddenly, spontaneously quiet, and into this silence we heard Andrew sort of feebly protesting:
“I’m just not sure that the pain of doing a nursing home show is worth the $25 or whatever.”
Everyone in the room cracked up. But Andrew’s a pro, so he agreed to do the show in the end…
Glamour is right. lmao.
I forgot about this. I taped the show. It turned out ok. I would’ve done it for free, just because it’s good experience. But I wasn’t all that excited for it.
I’ll post the video sometime when I get back for everyone to laugh at.
I think I blogged a little about it. I kept getting in my own head. “I’m really complaining about the gym, when half my audience is in wheelchairs. This joke sucks. I should move on.”
It’s fantastic. Glamourous.
Andrew J Rivers
December 23rd, 2009