Wharf Room Comedy - September 1, 2009 - "Learnings and Take-Aways"

I say "Learnings and Take-Aways" because I have a vague sense that those are (somewhat) new buzz-words for the results of a business meeting. I didn't spend much time as a career clone in the corporate world

I went up as 2nd comic following the MC/host, DrBrian, & wasted a minute riffing on the first guy. This A.D.H.D. thing may work when I have time to plan changes, but not when flying by the seat of my massive pants.

Last night I heard at the last minute that I'd have *6* minutes after crafting a tight 5. Added 1 minute of other, unrehearsed, material. Got up there & pissed away a minute on first guy's dreck (although the riffs were material I'd used before & it all worked), then was so worried about not having enough time to do the set I'd written that I rushed through it, NOT allowing time for laughs to build, and lost concentration -- had to refer to notes all the time.

Pretty-much all the (excellently-written) material worked, and the (small) audience liked it, but I didn't give them a chance to REALLY like it because I talked too fast and too much. I didn't totally stink up the place, and the video looks better than I felt while doing it, but I'm pissed at myself. Maybe when I perform in the future I'll just wear headphones to drown out the earlier acts.

I'll post a few videos later.