A good set last night.
There were 10 performers on the scheduled line-up, but 13 showed up and got stage time. *All* were somewhere between good and excellent, a rarity. One popular local fellow walked in and got 5 minutes, and 2 *nationally known* comics made surprise appearances for longer sets. By "nationally known" I mean guys who've appeared on HBO & Comedy Central
I had tightened up the 5-minute set from Rooster's on Wednesday and intended to repeat it, but got *7* minutes of time and mostly just wallowed happily in ADHD riffs on earlier comics' topics.
As usual, I screwed up making a video, so don't have it.
I'll have to recall what I said from memory & notes, but will post what I can later.
There's been a pleasant trend of having better audience rapport & response.
As always, a lot of each set is topical/political material that I'm delivering without much live practice. It's difficult to get the writing and delivery right the first couple of times.
The GOOD news about doing call backs on other guys' sets is that I (mostly) can use material I wrote & rehearsed (if only in my head) before. It *looks* like spontaneous ad libs, but is of a higher quality than that.
The audience *loves* it when I say (as I did last night), "I wrote this excellent set for you tonight, but my ADD kicked in and I'm throwing it out. I wanna talk about what the other guys said instead." I went with that new-seeming material for at least half the set before getting back into what I had prepared, including some even newer and better material I added to the "Hoover" closer.
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