Cody Konior

If you’ve seen my stuff before, skip to the middle

Notes

I got an email from a comedy club manager on Tuesday asking me to come in and do 5 minutes for Thursday night. I was really surprised because I’d just taken a 2 month sabatical and only resumed comedy last week, and suddenly I had another chance to take to the stage at a professional non-open mic venue! So I jumped at it!

The first half of my set I use the cat/vet story. I’ve used this 4 times so far, and the only great reaction I had was on the very first night I used it, and since then it has gone down further, and further. I feel sad about that and can’t quite identify why except maybe I’m just not passionate enough about it anymore?

Then I went into my new Transformers bit I started last week (but couldn’t record back then). I’d retooled it a little and made it longer, then came up with a great tag just a few minutes before going on stage. It worked a treat! It’s my new favourite bit.

And finally I finish with a mix of new and old coffee bits. I have a lot of stuff about coffee and this was the first time I tried to chunk them all together. The result was pretty good, though I skipped a few beats and the very end needs tightening up.

Overall I realise I went way too fast, and yet, finished exactly on 5 minutes! So, I’m happy about that. And I didn’t forget anything! The audience took a while to warm up but I’m pretty sure they liked me at the end. Compared to the other performances of the night, I was in the middle of the pack – a few didn’t fare so well, and others blew me out of the water. Which is good, because the audience wins!

Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever be able to be a “great” comedian. I definitely have trouble converting some of my ideas into stuff that is funny, and even more problems working out how to perform them on stage. But it’s still early.

I also heard last night about a competition called Green Faces. I couldn’t work out how to enter the Perth rounds, but I might like to give it a try with a mix of some of my lesser known and newest material (definitely not the cats bit anymore, for now).

PS: If you have any advice on how to take better video under stage lights, I’d love to hear them.

Gallery

(Coming soon, the pictures from the video won’t be very good).

Watch this, I did really good today, this is my new best set.

Notes

I really struggled to write this set because I bombed so hard last time at Laugh Resort, and this time I really wanted to push the limit of what I was joking about and I wasn’t sure how far the audience would tolerate it.

My opening half is something I wrote before I even started doing stand-up but never performed, while the rest was an amalgamation of some ideas from the past few weeks.

I didn’t make any particular mistakes, I moved the mic from hand to hand unnecessarily, and went a minute over my time, and used jokes which I didn’t have punchlines for yet, but that was all part of the plan.

I was surprised at one point where I was talking about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Madonna, and someone in the audience groaned. I didn’t realise it was a sensitive topic.

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