Bossa show

So I am taking some time out of cleaning my apartment to update the blog.

Thursday night went extremely well. I went on right in the middle of the show, which is the best time to go on in an open mic night. In addition, the crowd was loving it the whole time, which was helped by the fact that every comedian that went up before me was funny. So I was much less nervous than when I performed on Wednesday. My new joke went over well, and every one of my bits got at least some amount of laughter, which is cool.

The best part is the way I felt afterwards. If you compare my mood on Thursday to my mood a week before when I bombed at Topaz, you could hardly believe it was the same person. I guess that’s the way it is, live by the sword, die by the sword. And it’s clear that no performance guarantees that the next performance will be even remotely similar. For example, I doubt I will get a better crowd than Thursday’s as long as I remain on the open mic circuit. I can’t start expecting to kill every night just because one audience liked my jokes. At this point, I’m just working on writing more jokes and keeping my expectations low.

Well, I have more to write, but it’s back to cleaning for me. I’ll write again at work when I’m more bored.