first ever stand up routine…
so early monday morning i made a 5min audio clip on my computer of me just ranting and emailed to annies social club in san fransciso which is a comedy club in the downtown area that hosts an open mic night every tuesday.
they emailed me back on tuesday:
“Hey Jonas,
You’re on the list for tonight. You’ll get five minutes with a light at four minutes.
See you tonight.”
oooook.
so luckily for me i had a bunch of friends in town jay (krantz) chelsea (jay’s gf) emil (whitelime) brian (flawless_victory) cassandra (brian’s gf), dean, nate (neon, who lives in SF) and my good friend from college chris (who also lives in bay area), so even tho i only had about 7hrs to prepare i did have a huge fan base there for support (well really there in the hopes of getting to heckle me).
unluckily for me my GF couldn’t be there, but that was thru no fault of her own, and she was a big support.
there were 33 people set to go on altho there were a few no shows, and the talent level really varied tremendously from super funny/seasoned to pretty awful…..with a wide range in between.
i was actually pretty nervous leading up to the show but once i got onstage i just felt super comfortable, wasn’t nervous at all anymore and just had a ton of fun.
i was a little unlucky in my timing as the two comics that went on before me bombed REALLY REALLY hard and kinda killed the vibe a lil (the comic right before me spent his entire 5mins talking about his 13″ cock……………..
i also scrapped a good deal of my original act and just kinda flowed onstage, adn i think some of my best moments came from interactions with the crowd.
it was super weird though cuz the whole time i was up there i couldn’t hear anyone laughing and it just sounded like the whole room was silent, but then as soon as i got off stage everyone was congratulating me on how good a job i did.
i even had some rando dude come find me after the last 2 comics went up and the show was over to tell me how much he liked my act, so that was cool.
i mean obv there is a ton of shit i need to work on, not talking so fast being a huge number 1, and also better ennunciation, but overall i was very happy with how i did, considering it was with almost no preparation.