Bar of Gods

   I did not even realize I was on this so tell a couple hours ago. It's a fun little show, held at bar of the gods. A small, dark room, that holds about 20, about 10 showed up. I hung out in the back with my friend David and waited for my turn.
    This was a very rough set for me, the first 10 or so minutes felt like an hour. But the last half was much better. I actually ended on an applause break, so I guess it wasn't all bad. All the comics had a rough time, so I will say the audience sucked this time.

Chinese Village

    back at Chinese village. A familiar room, this is the third time I've been here. Tonight I am featuring. Headlining is Bryan Cook, the inventor of competitive erotic fanfiction, and all around bad ass.
    There is a strong number of people in the room too! Probably 20 people showed up to watch, which is big for this small room. I went out and about 15 minutes, everything went pretty well the last few minutes or more rough than the start but the crowd still was rad. Then I watch Brian Cook do his thing. That man has got some great material, 6 year old dead Tetris kids makes me laugh so hard. Definitely a great night

Proof....

    Tonight I get the pleasure of performing in a new room my friend Tristiant set up. It's a very small bar right off Hawthorne, it can hold about 40 maybe. My friend Pete from my old GC days showed up too! This is the first time he has seen me perform. I feel kinda bad about it, I would rather him see me doing a "real" set at a club, but this will do.
     The show starts about 30 minutes late, the host finally shows up right before we were going to start without him. He did  about 10 minutes out front and then brings me out. By the way I am the only comic on the bill who actually showed up to perform. I do about 25 minutes, and it goes so tell. I was doing some dark stuff and some new stuff, and the crowd was pretty rough. A lot of my "classic" jokes did not hit and I had to just push forward. I still had a great time regardless though, I got some decent laugh and Tristan was a great host.
   I stuck around for a little bit of open mic, but now I'm getting so old in this comedy game I did not recognize another face in there for the open mic. But that's how the businesses, its a revolving door...

Late Night....

    I I head lined my friends late night talk show this evening. It was in a new space in the action adventure theater. A smaller room, but with really cool lighting and windows behind the stage. It was very open and airy feeling, seemed like new construction. There was no microphone for the show, but it was a small room so it worked out. They ended up selling the place out, about 25 people, very good audience!
    I did a couple quick one liners to start, and told my hospital story early on. It's a dark story but I wanted to make a call back to my drumset later. I had fun with the audience as well, there was a very beautiful couple and I played on them for a while. Good stuff. I ended on my new homeless bit which I am loving.

Valentines

    Monday night, & I get to do a little showcase with my friend Jason at a bar called Valentines. It's a pretty hip joint, located right in the heart of donut alley, good foot traffic. Leading up to the show was chill ambient music, very soothing. Also let me say that I ate a few mushrooms earlier, nothin substantial, but was definitely feeling it throughout the night. This room has a very hip, cool vibe to it and I love the loft layout.
    I ended up going up first, and really kind of just played around a bit. Made a bone thugs n harmony reference, which is always a good thing. I will probably keep that bit too. Also I knew quick one liner about Tom Hanks went well, so yeah pretty productive. I kinda flubbed the end of the set though, I told a joke I haven't told in awhile and forgot where I was going, but I think I gave a pretty organic looking show regardless. At one point in one of my darker, hospital bits, I reach the punchline and got very little chuckles but could hear someone audibly say Jesus Christ under their breath and that was really the highlight of my night. No actually the highlight of my night was watching Christian Ricketts close with my favorite cat penis joke. Yeah, Christians cat penis joke.

Helium...

    Friday and Saturday night I got the host for Bryan Callen, and he is phenomenal! He had packed audience is for all four shows, and was killing it throughout. The feature, Doug Mellard was chill as fuck too.
    All of my sets went fairly well. My best that was the 730 Saturday show, and my camera f***** up and didn't record it. Kinda bummed about that but whatever there will be more. I used my new homeless bit as a closer and it worked great. A lot of new material I got to play with at the beginning of the sets, trying to write quicker openers. Some of them work, some of them don't.
    

Dirty Dozen...

     I have the pleasure of hosting a new showcase called The Dirty Dozen at Helium tonight! I will also be hosting for Bryan Callen, but for Thursday it is local comics, and it's a good lineup.  Everybody's bringing the dirtiest material they have, I love this theme!
     The crowd is huge, a lot of people show up, granted the tickets were free but still there had to have been a 150 people there. I open the show with 15 minutes of pretty dirty material, and then introduced the next 11 comics as they go up and watch them kill it. My set was fantastic. I did not even go half is dark is I could have, so next time I'll have to push it. Everybody had a great set, the crowd was with it! I see this as a huge success, so next time I'm definitely bringing the heat!

Helium and Fun House Lounge

    Its Tuesday! And that means it's a Helium and Fun House kind of night, and to make it a little better, I am hosting all this week at Helium! I am fortunate enough to work with Bryan Callen, and look forward to what the week brings.
    But tonight is about hosting the open mic, and I go out there with about 10 minutes of new material all less than a month old, and it hits more or less pretty solid. I will listen to my set and polish it up for the showcase, but as of right now I'm pretty happy. I get a couple of quick one liners in between a few of the comedians as they shuffled through the order, and was out of there by 9:45.
    Also I finally grow a pair a balls and started talking to the management of the club in requesting dates and certain comedians to work with. And big news but still not 100 percent certain, I will be the regular host of The Dirty Dozen showcase every other Wednesday at Helium...and I will get to book it as well! I'm super happy to take this under my wing and show the club what I'm capable of. The management has put a lot of faith in me, letting me work there for the last year, and I feel like it's time for me to step up to that next level. I'm ready.
    Then it was off to the Fun House Lounge for a nightcap so to speak. A solid crowd as usual, about 50 people. I go up to the host and ask if I could do a quick 3 minute set and they put me right on. It feels good to be in a place where people put faith into my work, and genuinely seem to respect me.
   The set went great, I opened with some new bit about Doug Funny porn, and closed the with my new homeless bit which has been crushing. It feel so good to come up with a new two minutes of killer material that audiences really like.
    In related news, they added a new room for the Fun House Lounge! A small, red lit room with an electronic fireplace... feels pretty baller.

Jack London Bar

   hi headlined a new showcase called "Show me your wits!" and it was a pleasure! This room is pretty large, and held in the basement of the Rialto, a little giant pool hall in downtown. It's dark, and has a great basement comedy club feel to it. Has a small stage with the sound booth directly behind it is located right against the wall. With seating for about 50 and a nice bar along the back side as well.
    I did a little over 30 minutes and the first 20 and change went over fantastic. I was really feeling the audience tonight, and throwing out some off the wall references. They were really into it, and I was really energetic. The last five or so minutes were a bit rougher, I got too comfortable and started throwing out old material that's just not up to par anymore. Plus I forgot my joke about feet, damn it jacob get your shit together! Besides the rough closer, this was definitely a fun fun show that I was proud to be part of!

Alberta Street Pub

    I am at the alberta street pub tonight, for a little open mic action. This is a new venue, hosted by joanne, and I like it.  You walkin via the main bar, and go through a set of swinging doors into a separate room with a small stage. Its a small room, holding maybe 40, and always well attended. Good sound system and stage lighting too! This is a great room to work out new material. And I did.
     I had a new bit about cartoon porn... Sounds hack, because it is. But I get to talk about Hey Arnold porno so... & I worked out a new homeless joke too. This was productive, and fun.