My wife took the stage last night in the “Better Half” show at Shadowbox – part of Tuesday with Mak & Winks (shadowboxlive.org/shows/tuesdays), hosted by Tom Plute. The show was born of Tom’s idea that it would be a riot if the wives/husbands/etc. of comics did their significant others’ material. For my part, I didn’t have to do anything! Well, except the following…
This was actually harder than if I did it myself. I had to write the material (already done). That was easy, but then I had to type up every single word and email it to my wife. Sounds easy, except the fact that she went full literal on me. “You typed first off on this part of the joke, then later in the joke you list four points and say first. It says first twice.” Yes, I was in a hurry to get the material to you, just change one of the words, it’s not relevant to the joke. “I need you to type it exactly. Also, didn’t you say this joke differently? Didn’t you say this part of the sentence before the this other part?” Sigh. Can I just do the show? That would be easier.
Once the show started, it went very well. I don’t know what was funnier, the material of the side comments from the better halves about their significant others’ material. Hope did even better than I expected, especially since she didn’t get much practice time. Having a kid that refuses to sleep isn’t the best comedy assistance. I would post the video, but I don’t have the bandwidth to do so…and she may stab me, so we’ll see if I can figure out a way to do it.
Afterwards, I asked if she had fun. “Just at the end. (Because it was over)” I told her she just needs to hit about 50 open mics and work out the stage jitters and was met with a slew of sarcastic comments. Looks like I’ll be the only comic in this house going forward. Good thing I make millions a show because the depressing thing is until last week we had the same of amount of shows this month and I booked it myself. Comedy is great.