Summer is pretty rough for comics at my level. A lot of the one-nighters dry up due to summer breaks and vacations. As a comedian looking for work, you hang on every opportunity. I picked up a show in Ohio on a Thursday and it was a nice add to a rather bone dry schedule. Then, three days before it, I got a call for a college show that paid more. Shit. Not being a scumbag, I had to turn it down.
The very next day I applied for a comedy festival that is hard to get into. The day after that, I got offered a week in Alabama. I took it, because I’m not an idiot (in that category, I’m quite the idiot in others). I emailed the festival to take me out of the running and was promptly informed I would’ve definitely been in…for a chance to win $1000. Son of a bitch!
I was rather sour, but went to the original show with all this double opportunity crap in my head. After the show, the headliner told me he liked my stuff and got me three dates in December. It pays well and it’s not too ridiculous on the travel end. Yay! I guess sometimes it works out. Now I wait to get hit by a car with my shit luck. Try not to run over my face, karmamobile, I’m very good looking.