Tommy T's experience June 8, 2009

Semi-fun times last night at Tommy T's in Pleasanton.

There was a 17-year old kid from Livermore High School who won the big bucks. He had talked his teacher into letting him do stand-up for his "Senior Project." I sniffed the net & found he had some stage experience (playing a part in a school production of Les Miz). He had a posse of kids from school w/ him (probably 20+) who voted for him, but would have won anyway. Good stage presence & material.

I think the other comics & I were a bit thrown by the makeup of the audience. While Enrique & Erin were funny, and just as crude as ever, most the regulars toned down the "Adult" humor. When Erin talked about her bf going down on her, some of the 17/18-yr old girls hid their faces in their hands laughing.

We each got to do 7-minute sets, so I would have used my "eating rainbow sherbet is like going down on a redheaded girl" and other bits, but for the "yutes" in the crowd. Tough to find common ground w/ them, altho limited drug, masturbation & movie references (Star Trek & Gremlins) worked.

Political bits & reference to botox flew right over their heads. I thought about it in my sleep (back-burner thinking) and would have done a tighter/audience-oriented set had known they would be there. Should have talked about being an actual 1967-era hippie & hunting mastodons in my youth, but it was not very realistic to expect them to relate to grandpa.