A year ago, I was all like "I'm gonna do seven sets a week for a whole year." And last night I was all like "Done."
There are some nights you just can't find a mic, so if I got 6 sets one week, I'd be sure to get 8 sets another week. I kept a tally.
I actually finished with something like 370 sets in 365 days.
On top of the 9-5 job, that'll drain ya.
Now, I'ma take a week or so off comedy. I need some sleep, I've been a walking corpse for a couple
"Love on the Sands of Cairo"
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"The following is based on real events"
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EXT. OUTER-SPACE – NIGHT
Space ships blast lasers at each other.
They are attacked and swatted by a giant dinosaur. They start shooting at it.
Space dinosaur crunches a space ship in one fist, the moon in the other, throws its
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Retarded people are like God's rough drafts."
- Me, to bar-flys
I like this old blog by Stanhope.
I think too many comics try and promote themselves too early, though. If you're 5 months in and have cards and a website, it makes me wonder if you're in this because you love the art of comedy, or because you love the idea of having cards, a website, and the label "comedian."
There is a huge difference between having 30 minutes of stand-up, and being able to do 30 minutes of stand-up. It seems like the only
I'm urinating in a stall, cause I need big blinders to urinate, and overhear 2 out of the 6 audience members (or people who happened to be at the bar) talking.
"I'll never laugh again."
"Yeah, it was terrible."
I exit the stall, preparing to say something either witty and depricating, or snide and defensive, haven't decided yet.
"I laughed like twice."
They're at the urinals, their backs are turned. Well I'll just wash my hands slowly
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