Charlie's Standup Comedy Journal
February 2, 2005: New Shit for the New Year
Ahhhh... this one felt
good, folks.
Which is not to say that the
show was good, necessarily. There wasn't a crowd to speak of, though a few jaded old comics were hanging around to watch, and I'm pretty sure one couple in the audience wweren't comics.
(On the other hand, I'm also fairly certain that they were there to see one rather drunken fellow go onstage.
Friend of theirs, I suspect. He went on last, lost his place a few times, announced his profession -- corrections
officer, I believe it was -- as though it were a setup for a joke... and then walked offstage. Rather shakily, at that.
Seems he'd downed just a few too many pints of 'courage' before going on, you see. Understandable, really -- the shows last until the last comic has gone on, last call and decorum and work tomorrow be damned. And he was the
last comic, so he'd had a few hours to tie one on. Maybe next week, he'll be on a little earlier, and we'll see what he's got.)
Anyway, it wasn't the best
show ever, for certain. And I don't think it's my best
material ever,
either. And that's just
my material, you understand, so it's not saying too much. But dammit, it was
new material, for the first time in a couple of months, and that felt
good.
Not that I don't like my other stuff, mind you. Some of it even gets some good laughs. But I don't want to be
doing the same crap at every show in a year -- or in the spring, for that matter. I like to mix it up, throw a few
new jokes down, jazz things up on in a while. 'Build the routine', that sort of thing. So it was good to get some
fresh fodder out there, regardless of whose asses were -- or, more accurately,
weren't -- in the seats.
So, if you've been watching these clips -- you poor, tormented soul, you -- and you've grown tired of the
'zany interview' bit and the 'i before e' gag, and the 'college in Kentucky' sequence, and the 'Spanish class' story,
then you're in luck. This is your first, fresh-and-still-piping-hot look at 'puzzling pandas' and the 'Blue's Clues rant'.
(Which, if you're keeping score at home, were adapted from
this entry and
this entry, respectively.
For that matter, the rest of that shit started here, too -- all of it. The
interview thing, the
grammar lesson, the
Kentucky higher education bit, and
'Guillermo' -- all typed here in loving detail before being hacked apart, shortened, rewritten, and reworked for standup. Makes you feel like part of the
process, doesn't it, folks. Breathe it in. Just breathe it in.)
Anyway, have a look, if that's your particular cup of tea. Or wait and watch the next clip. Because that's
almost
certainly gonna contain the same shit that's here, and possibly with an audience next time. Or look
now, if you can't handle the suspense. Boy oh boy, isn't this
exciting? Yeah.
Download Clip of 02/02/05 Set --
Emerald Isle, Dorchester, MA (5 minutes, 0 seconds):
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