Back into the groove

I had my first long set in a few weeks last weekend.  It was nice except the emcee said hello, introduced me to the owner, then said, “Well, let’s get this started!”  Nice to start a car in 25 degree weather and then mash the gas.  So, in a comedy first, the show started 30 minutes early.

My experience with comedy is that a lay off is no problem with me on material, it’s the ancillary stuff, like segues and set ups.  I mushmouthed a few set ups, overexplaining things like I was talking to a new immigrant crowd taking the citizenship test.  After about 10 minutes, I was good to go mentally.  I hate walking in and doing a set cold almost as much as a lady I read about that spells her name in all lower case letters.  It doesn’t make you special, dipshit, it makes you weird.

I must have done well enough, because I sold a DVD – as in I would have sold a DVD, but my computer sucks and can’t burn DVD’s and I didn’t have any more left.  Add that to the to do list.  I also sold a shirt and was tipped $5, but that was for doing the hamburger in the men’s room.  Just kidding, I did that for free.