Alberta Street Pub

Tonight I am hosting the open mic at Alberta Street Pub. This is a good way to unwind after the weekend at helium and I am looking forward to it. This club as a separate side room with a stage and is really well suited to live performances. Prior to the comedy show there was a poetry reading that had 60 people attending it. They all left before comedy though. Of course.
   I got there at about 8 and put the list up at 8:30. It was full by nine and we started the show at 10. The show went till about 1145 so I was there for a solid 4 hours. It didn't feel that long fortunately, I heard some pretty good comedy tonight.
   I did 20 minutes up front. Literally just introduced myself and started the rotation. I kind of regret that, I should have done some newer shit but I was kind of beat.

Helium

   This week I am hosting at Helium for Iliza Shlesinger! As always I am excited to work the club and Iliza brings a great crowd! All 5 shows are sold out and the audience is super with it for everyone.
   I did 2 different sets through the weekend and even recorded them on video for a new tape. Also, I did clean sets. No cussing or sex stuff or anything too dark...quite refreshing and rewarding to know I can do that and get such a great reaction. All the sets go great and Iliza was really great to work with.
   I look forward to working here again.

Spin Cycle

Tonight I am performing comedy in a laundromat because Portland. I'm actually pretty excited for the show, it's the one year anniversary of the laundromat and everybody gets free washes! I got all of my bedding done tonight. The show is also good. The quirky laundromat comedy vibe works and this place also has pinball and a bar and serves food... legit
   I go up last tonight and do about 15 minutes of mostly newer material. I had some fun with the crowd and everyone there had a good time.

Main Street Bar

   Tonight I'm in a little old sports bar located in Battleground Washington called the Main Street Bar. It's the typical, middle of nowhere, wood paneling on all the walls type of bar. But it has an actual stage area set up in the back and they have seating all facing the microphone just pretty swell. 5 minutes to showtime and a very drunk woman who cannot hold herself up was sprawled out on the floor, spilled her entire glass of water and is just an incoherent mess. Good shit.
   I was the host tonight and it was just a two man show. I went up and did 20 minutes to warm up the crowd and then let the headliner finish it off. There are not that many laughs. I don't feel like my material was weak, but the crowd was not responding to much. Also, the crowd was 25 people at most. The headliner did not fare any better.
   This was putting in to work.

Crush

This is my first time at crush bar. This is a small l.g.b.t bar real close to my neighborhood. They have a real legit stage set up in here with seating for about 40.
  I go up second on the show and really felt like I came out strong. Right off the bat I was just really big and kind of throwing myself around the stage and the crowd was on board. I had a few slow spots of the middle of my set but ended up closing with a nice bang and walked off the stage very happy with myself. I forgot to do a new bit about cell phones. But other than that I am very satisfied with this evening.

The Summit

Tonight I am headling the Summit Saloon in Bend. This is a pretty large, two story bar venue that has seating for about 80 in the showroom. They have a nice stage with a few spotlights as well.
    The show goes pretty okay. I go up with high energy and do about 55 minutes. Not everything hit as hard as I would have liked but most everything I said in the crowd was into. The darker the better. Some of these civilians were definitely my kind of people.
   So what they take away from tonight is that I have 55 minutes of material without even trying. After the showcase they hosted open mic and I did another 5 minutes of stuff I forgot to talk about during the showcase. I feel like if I really wrote it out and tried I could do with an hour and a half right now.

Sky Club

   Tonight was pretty terrible. I did a 10 minute set at Skyclub for 12 people who didn't laugh at any of my shit. Comedy can be a fickle mistress and sometimes shit just sucks. Tonight shit sucked.

Pauly Shore at Bossanova

  It is Thursday, April 2nd. Pretty mundane day, still feeling jazzed from the Dirty Dozen set last night. What makes tonight special? I am opening for Pauly Shore. I'm pretty excited, I got an email out of the blue asking if I was available so of course I said yes.
   It is at the bossanova ballroom. It's a pretty big venue that I would imagine could hold around 300. I've seen a few shows in here but never actually performed on this stage. I was happy to get the chance. The show was definitely not sold out. Maybe about 65 people showed up, but they were a good audience and the room felt full.
   I went up and started the show, did about 10 minutes out front and everything felt pretty solid. I did some older jokes and threw in the newer crack cocaine material in the middle. All my jokes hit where they needed to, and I introduce the next comedian.  Bri and Sean did great as well and then Pauly went up to close out the show and did about 40 minutes.
   Good way to live on a Thursday

Dirty Dozen

   It is the first of the month and that means another episode of Dirty Dozen! It happens to fall on April Fools Day as well, good timing.
    The show goes on without a hitch. Really good audience, about 180 people, they were well into the back of the room. I feel like my set was great and I really set the tone for the rest of the show. Everybody did really well, & I brought some out-of-towners from Seattle who had a great time.
   This show is definitely a success and I'm really proud to be a part of it every month. This is a show I'm allowed to exercise my freedom of speech, and they put a lot of trust in me to head to show. I am thankful for that.

Helium

Tuesday night and that mean Helium open mic! The crowd is pretty packed and I go up near the end. My set pretty off brand and rambling. But I got off stage feeling pretty solid. Afterwards, I did not get out of Helium for an hour because people kept coming up to me saying nice things. I don't know what I did in there tonight but they were feeling it... solid.

Hell or Highwater

Tonight I am featuring on the hell or highwater showcase. It is in North Portland and pretty close to my house. Its a nice bar with a separate room with a stage and is really good for live shows.
   The show is well attended, but laugh of sparse. I go up there with a bunch of my b material. Not b as is in bad, just stuff that I don't get a chance to say that often. The crowd was on my side through the whole thing and I left there feeling pretty good about my night.