This past weekend marked an exciting milestone for me, as it was my first weekend hosting at a comedy club. It wasn’t my very first time hosting on a weekend — that happened last month — but it was my first time hosting all four weekend shows. The venue was Giggles, and the headliner was [...]
When I finally got home last night, I was crankier than the average bear. I was completely, thoroughly waterlogged after the final leg of my journey home — an eight mile bike ride in the pouring rain. I had just returned from two different open mics. Standing in my garage, dripping wet and miserable, all [...]
I’m still on a bit of an adrenaline jag from last night, because I did a set with about 80% new material and almost all of it did well. Woo-hoo! The rule of thumb is to try a joke three times before deciding whether it works or not. I’ve heard this repeated so many times [...]
Another day, another revealing conversation with a relative newcomer on the topic of getting the light. This was at an open mic without a host, where each comic introduces the next one on the list. I told the guy before me I’d give him the light when he had 30 seconds to go, and he [...]
You know that feeling of regret, when you come up with the perfect comeback twenty minutes after the conversation is over?1 Multiply that frustration by a hundred, and that’s a comic’s agony when we’re interacting with the audience and come up with a comeback later, off stage. Last night I was practicing my crowd work, [...]
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