Maybe watch this one, I liked it and it went over so-so, though it takes a while to get going.
Notes
I struggled so much to decide which material I’d been working on to use, switching things around up until the last day where I actually completely rewrote it based on the ideas of the routines I had, and came up with this. I think that’s why I could remember it all quite easily. I still wasn’t very happy with the opening though.
I missed a few punchlines where I had planned to do callback humour, swapped the mic from hand to hand too much, and stared at the floor when I should be looking at the audience. I was doing that to try to remember what to say. I also talked too fast at the end as my time was running out, and I went a few minutes over. I was particularly sad about that because I try so hard to get it to 5 minutes.
On the good side, I did it, and I moved the microphone when I went on and also used it mid-set, reduced my hand movements, thought up some new and better punchlines, and controlled my face more. Sometimes my eyes look a little weird like I’m begging for laughter and it tends to make things bomb.
Right after the show I felt I had bombed, but watching the video I feel, although it’s not as strong as I wanted to end 2009, I think it was a decent success.
This was my second performance ever, and I had just come back from holiday and was feeling great, and really happy to be back, and suntanned and relaxed with brand new material. Almost everything hit just like I had planned, except something at the beginning.
I did make some beginner mistakes, not moving the mic stand, and forgetting my set list twice (although some people said it was “better” because the set list was way smaller using keywords instead of the whole thing printed out), and holding the microphone with both hands.
I wasn’t very confident, I forgot my set list twice, and some of my jokes didn’t hit, but God damn it if the audience wasn’t nice enough to laugh anyway because I had put so much love into the material, and lots of it was genuinely funny. This is one of my favourites and has some of my funniest and most original personal observations.
