So I am driving to Carlisle, PA to do the gig. By the way, I thought of all of that excuse to cancel on the way to Carlisle. Hey, better late than never. Anyway, 2 hours later, I get there. It is a small pizza shop called Red Devil Pizza and Subs. They have a small corner and a sound system, so why not offer comedy every week? Well, I showed up there and met the headliner for the evening which was R. Bruce. A very funny guy that plays song parodies with his guitar. The audience loved him. The ride back took too long. Two hours in a car by yourself at night sucks. Especially in a state where radio sucks. I need satellite radio. Which one is better? Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone even reading this?
Saturday night was a great show. I was at Chuckles club in West Chester, PA. They are running a contest over several weeks to find the Delaware Valley's funniest educator. When I first heard of this contest, I didn't think that it would fly. Holy shit was I wrong. There were three teachers competing last night, each one doing about 5-6 minutes of stand up. One of the teachers brought 30 people alone. This tiny room had standing room only. Plus, since they were mostly teachers, they were an educated crowd, quite the opposite of the previous night's gig. So I was the MC for the evening. I got up and did about 2 minutes of warm up, bull shit stuff then I brought the first teacher up. He was surprisingly good. Though it was his first time on stage, he looked like he had been doing it for a few months. Still a bit nervous, but good stage presence and funny material. The next teacher looked like Larry Davids of Curb Your Enthusiasm. His material was pretty good. Very wordy though. Too much setup for not enough punch line. The third guy got up and did a character name Mr. Kickass. Mr. Kickass was the teacher of a special ed class. It was amusing to watch a guy try to do this character. It wasn't really stand up, more like a humorous monologue that someone would perform at the graduation of an acting class. Well, the first guy, Jason Armstrong, won for the evening and gets to move on to the next round. The audience for the rest of us comics was awesome. The other comics there, Ed O'Hanlan, David James, and Peter Jung, did an awesome job and no doubtedly loved the audience as well. This was the kind of audience that I really needed after the shows that I have had over the past few weeks. The kind of audience that makes me say, "Oh yeah, that's why I am in this business." The kind of audience that makes me say, "Oh yeah, that's why I left my old life of hookers and blow." The kind of audience that makes me say, "Oh yeah, that's why I escaped from the clutches of the Chinese mafia after they threw me into slavery inside their vast network of the sex slave industry. Sure, at first it was fun and lots of partying, but then one day I realized that it wasn't for me. So after I gnawed my own arms off in an attempt to unchain myself, I used my arms as weapons to defeat the prison guards and run out of that camp only to realize that I wasn't in China but instead in Duluth, MN where the sex slave industry is thriving." Damn it! Again with the too much info! I need to learn how to delete.
