This is a personal blog / diary of my experiences being a stand up comedian. Most of the entries take place in the Portland Oregon / Pacific NW area.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Att commercial
Helium....
I got the pleasure of hosting another weekend helium comedy club for James Adomian, who is a real pleasure to work with. This guy is super funny, outgoing, and we end up hanging out a bit after the shows talking shit.
In terms of shows, they all went pretty well. The last Saturday 10:00 p.m. Show was a little rough but still fun. I recorded a couple of sets with my phone, and got some decent audio from it. My new kiss from a rose bet is working out pretty well, as is my midlife crisis stuff too. I ended up closing with my same set I did for the helium comedy contest. The crowd is with it, now I'm shaking a lot of hands afterwards.
We met this one guy outside of the club, rolling up a bunch of fat joints and handing them to us. This guy had some good weed, me and James and Nathan were all pretty out of it by the end of that rotation. And I had seen this guy before get pulled over on his longboard, small world.
The feature is a good friend of mine Nathan Brannon. It's always a pleasure to work with Nathan, and we of course end up getting high and chatting after shows. I'm actually going to be working with him again real soon at Bagdad theater. It's nice to have such good friends in the Portland comedy scene to work with.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Funhouse Lounge
I started of the night at helium comedy club as usual. A pretty quiet audience tonight, very unusual. A lot of great comedians had a rough sets, which was actually pretty interesting to watch. Everyone handled it well, nothin insane.
Afterwards I headed out to fun house lounge. I dont go out to fund house very often, I used to but stopped a while back. I am glad I went tonight, the crowd was packed. I got up and did about 5 minutes, felt really good about it and walked a couple miles back home. Definitely a productive night thanks to fun house.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Milepost 5
I came out to the Milepost 5 Theater on an off night. I was in the neighborhood, so no reason not stop in. One of my good friends, Andy was a performer tonight. A couple out of towners as well. 5 comics in all.
no audience...I mean none. Not a person was watching this show. I guess I was there, I do count as an audience member. The comics all made the best of it, and we still had a good time.
Lemonade my friends, lemonade