February 6, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome to Starting Stand-Up.
I'm David Walton.
If you're new here, I'm anactor.
I've been doing TV and film for20 years and then I got this
delusional idea that I can getgood at stand-up comedy and so I
started and it's not going welland this whole podcast kind of
tracks the slow motion car crashof what it's like to start
(00:24):
something.
That's really hard.
This is a very special episodebecause hours ago and I'm not
lying hours ago at my 16th openmics, something very, very
exciting, weird, kind of scaryhappened For the first time ever
the hosts of this show they'reactual comics.
They asked me to be in theirreal shows, like with paying
(00:45):
customers and everything, notopen mics like actual shows.
And this is a cool episodebecause I didn't know this was
going to happen and I kind ofrecorded my struggles this
afternoon, a little taste of myneuroses, prior to going up.
I will share the actual openmic that got these guys to give
(01:07):
me an opportunity.
So you're getting it all.
You're just going to get it rawand fresh, just the way you
like it.
So buckle up and thank you forbeing here.
Oh man, that's rubbish.
(01:38):
That's rubbish.
So journal entry, I'm gonna godown a bit of furtive and I do
an open mic, I know what I needto do, which is just to rehearse
over and over and over and overagain.
Profound resistance.
I don't want to do it.
I it's weird the the idea ofmemorizing something and then
(01:58):
performing it somehow removesthe joy.
It's like I I want to go upthere and not knowing what's
going to happen and what's goingto come out of my mouth and
somehow just like having a wholeset routine and doing it feels
wrong and I I don't know if thatmeans that I'm not, that I
(02:20):
can't do standup, or whetherthat means it's just an attitude
thing.
I don't know what it is, butthere's something about kind of
having it all memorized that Iam profoundly resistant to and
also just practicing it over andover and over again In my
office alone is like nails on achalkboard.
(02:41):
But I know that the better Iknow it.
It's like the host of theGolden Globes.
She did it, I don't know.
She kept saying on the redcarpet that she did it like 92
times.
She knew it so well that shecould just relax and have fun.
Maybe if I was hosting theGolden Globes I could rehearse
it, but in this case, I'm goingto Biddeford, maine on a
(03:03):
Wednesday before a snowstorm.
So what am I trying to say here?
I'm trying to say that I don'tknow why I have such a profound
resistance to doing all thisstuff and that's sort of my
pregame thought.
I am excited to kind of do thismaterial.
It's six o'clock, I'll leave inan hour, I'll come back, I'll
share what I did and then mypostgame.
(03:25):
It's going to be a classic rawepisode Pre-game performance,
postgame Super Journal Vibes.
I'm at the Comedy Mill here inBiddeford, maine.
I showed up at 7.31.
There were already 12 namesdown, so I'm number 13.
And there's usually about 20comics that come to Biddeford
main on a Wednesday.
(03:46):
It's 11 degrees outside and thisis my least favorite part of
the process.
There's just a bunch of dudes,uh, talking aggressively to each
other, just really high energy,and it's very hard for me.
So I just sit in a chair.
Sometimes I have some chats,but it's just exhausting.
(04:07):
I'm exhausted.
So I've got to wait about anhour and a half, maybe longer,
to go up and at that point Iwill have forgotten everything I
was working on and it will be awhole new thing because it just
goes away.
You get all primed up, you getjacked.
You rehearse, rehearse.
You get through it.
(04:28):
Car ride down, you get ready togo, and then you wait an hour
and a half and everythingchanges.
The energy, all of it changes.
So these are some of theobstacles, but I'm excited to
see what we got.
We're going to just rip.
The intention tonight is tobring energy, like to be a
(04:53):
high-energy guy and just beloose and connected again and
not be too attached to anything,just to roll like I'm giving a
wedding toast as opposed todoing precision guided missiles.
Just, lucy Goose, see whathappens.
Trust that I know and will saya couple of the jokes.
And just also not worry toomuch that you know we're not
(05:17):
filming a fucking HBO specialhere.
I'm at the Comedy Mill inBiddeford, maine.
All right, that's my pregamejournal and I'll see you after.
The next comic coming up isWalton.
I don't know his first name.
Let's go, he knows who I wastalking about david walt,
(05:37):
everybody.
Thank you very much.
I, uh, I'm gonna talk aboutsome white problems.
Yeah, like my dad didn't hug me,I uh.
No, I ended up talking about mydad.
He's 84, okay, so he's sort ofputting out a three-footer, on
(05:58):
the 18th green of life, if youwill, but he's got dementia, so
he's facing the wrong way.
It's like, dad, the hole's overhere and you're not holding a
putter, dad, that's a spatula.
But no, my dad actually didn't,doesn't hug he's.
He was born in 1940, right, andthat was not a generation of
hugger.
(06:18):
Uh, back then, the only theonly time you ever hug someone
is if they survived the titanic.
That was it and uh.
But I don't blame him, you knowwhat?
What I mean?
Like this was a generation youreally got to go there.
Like, if you're, you know,seven years old, your mom died.
Your dad just came up to youand was like she was a good
(06:40):
woman, son, and I know you'resad, but here's a stick.
Go, poke some holes and feelbetter and put on your Sunday
best in a couple hours, becauseI'll be marrying your mother's
younger sister this afternoon.
Truly, so I don't blame him.
(07:01):
You know his love language ismy dad's love language is firm
handshakes and disappointedsighs.
He's up in Boston right now,extremely disappointed about
what I'm doing.
I'm not lying.
The first time I ever hugged mydad was when I was going away to
college and my mother forced it.
He was so pissed off hepreferred the head nod across
(07:21):
the room.
But she walked like a hawk andhe came up to me and it was the
weirdest thing to see a grownman he was 60 at the time and he
just sort of spazzed out.
He goes are you happy, candy?
Are you happy with this?
To my mom.
And then he did the weirdestthing.
He gave me this, uh, thisadvice.
It's sort of the only advicehe's ever given me.
He said, david, I don't carewhat you do, just don't get
(07:47):
caught.
And I was like what the fuckdoes that mean?
Did that hug just turn me intoJeffrey Dahmer or something?
And then I thought about it.
I was like that's really goodadvice.
And I'm going to be honest,I've done a lot of illegal
things in my life and I havenever, ever been caught by my
dad.
(08:08):
So I'm overcompensating rightnow.
I'm overcompensating with thelack of hugs I got and I'm
hugging the shit out of my 12and 11-year-old.
My wife and I are kind ofcreepy about it.
We do like Oreo cookie, or I'ma cookie, she's a cookie and my
son's in the middle.
He's the sweet cream filling.
We're just dipping ourselvesinto warm emotional milk.
It's really weird.
It's slightly disturbing.
(08:29):
My dad witnessed it once and Ihonestly think he contracted
dementia intentionally to forgetit, forget what he saw.
But you know they say that kidsthere's a problem with the
amount of hugging we're doing.
(08:50):
Kids will.
They'll try to mimic what theygot as kids when they're grown
up.
So I have this fear that mydaughter, who I hug so much, is
going to have her senior projectbe like I would like to do an
MDMA-assisted cuddle, puddlewith the teachers of the school.
The other problem with huggingso much is my kids don't have
shame.
(09:10):
There's no shame and some shameis good.
You know what I mean.
Like the other day, my daughter.
She goes Dad like I thought shewas asking for like a pencil,
but she was doing her normalthing after school, like eating
avocado toast, watching Koreandramas, and she was like.
She was like, hey, dad, can youget me a new pair of underwear?
(09:31):
I just sharted and I was likewhat the fuck arearted talking
about inside?
I was like, first of all, whyare you so relaxed?
And say, why are you stilleating, sweetheart?
The truth is like I came from abig family man.
You had it went when I shartedback then.
I didn't tell a soul.
I had five siblings.
I ran to the bathroom.
(09:51):
I didn't tell a soul.
I was putting underwear washing.
Ran to the bathroom.
I didn't tell a soul.
I was putting underwear,washing it away like I was
disposing a body and like,because if my siblings had found
out that I'd shit myself, Iwould have been, you know,
shirtzilla for 18 months.
I would have been shart attack.
I would have been like this isthe Phantom of the Shardera, my
brother.
You, oh, don't shake mybrother's hand.
(10:13):
It's 90% feces, you know.
And the truth is.
And I wanted to tell my daughter, like, sweetheart, look, I
don't want you to feel shame, Idon't want you to, but I would
just like a little bit ofembarrassment when you shake
yourself.
So I know you're fucking human,but do you think, grandpa, when
he shits himself, continues toeat dinner?
(10:37):
No, he lashes himself intooblivion.
Damn it, candy, I gotta gochange my underwear.
Damn, I shot myself again.
Please pause the movie.
I apologize.
He's gonna feel like hebetrayed his ancestors and I
want a little more of that fromyou, sweetheart.
Parenting's hard.
The other day my son asked meif I'd ever done cocaine.
(11:01):
And thank you fifth grade deerprogram, fuck you.
And you know I don't lie to mykids and that's really the issue
.
So he goes Dad, have you everdone cocaine, ever know cocaine?
I was like, why do you havesome?
No, I said.
I said I said I just fuckingbit the bullet.
I was driving to school.
(11:22):
And I go, yes, and I look overand he's horrified, he's truly
horrified and he goes what, howmany times did you do it?
And I was like all the times,all the times I was like I don't
know, I don't remember, I don'tremember boy, and he goes, well
, no, but like, is there a range, like, how many times I'm like
(11:46):
I don't know, between one andevery time it was ever offered
to me.
And then no, no.
And then I was like, and thenhe goes, no, no, dad, but why do
you do it?
What's it like?
Like, what is it like?
And I said, well, first of all,if you had done it, you'd have
a lot more confidence askingthese questions of me.
(12:08):
Secondly, I tried to get on hispage.
You know what I mean.
I was like you know when youreally, really, really want
candy and you'd suck your bestfriend's dick to get it.
You know that's what it's like.
That was too far, it's crazy.
You just never know what's toofar.
That was my favorite joke ofthe whole lot Silence.
(12:31):
Now, the truth is it's none ofyour fucking business what I
said to my son.
Alright, that's my business.
It's between me and the socialworker and the DEA agent.
Anyway, I think I'm gettingclose to my time, but the truth
is I'm gonna bring it back to mydad.
Dementia's really fun, actuallyin a weird, because you can ask
(12:53):
your dad crazy questions.
My dad's a conservative guy.
You can ask him crazy questionsLike Dad, have you ever smoked
meth?
He's like I don't think so.
But I was all spiraling aboutthe cocaine thing and I was like
Dad, have you ever done cocaine?
And he was like wow, do youhave some?
No, we actually did a bunch ofblood together, but it had all
this baby diuretic in it.
So, to sum up, my dad, me andmy daughter all need new
(13:17):
underwear.
My name's David Walton.
Have a good one.
Fuck yeah, give it up for DavidWalton everybody.
Huh, cocaine, fucking cowboyover here.
Hell yeah, I've never wanted togo home and hug my children so
(13:38):
much in my fucking life, dude.
I just did it.
So I'm not exactly sure whereI'm going to work on it to get
it funnier, funnier, funnier.
But like anything, if I givemyself a few days and fresh ears
, it I'm sure I'll have ideas.
But the lesson, the takeawayfor me is just focusing on
(14:00):
something.
It's so hard.
For me it's much more fun tojust kind of spray all these new
ideas and kind of write andramp and vamp and do these
10-minute loose 10s and justcomplain and getting into it and
trying to tighten, tighten,tighten is what I basically
(14:21):
forced myself to do and therewards are obvious.
You actually have a set thatstarts to feel like actual
stand-up and there's care to it,there's shape.
Even jokes that aren't thatgreat are still, you know,
fillers that keep people engaged, and so it's getting there.
(14:43):
And it's getting there to thepoint where you know we're gonna
perform for paying audiences inMaine.
Here we go.
So that was my 16th open miclucky number 16.
You know.
Hopefully, with these newaudiences I can, I can start to
get that.
You know the joy of reallyconnecting to a room, a bigger
(15:06):
room, you know, with more peoplewho are fired up to laugh.
You know the hardest thing withthese open mics.
I did basically that set in NewYork and it was just crickets.
I didn't know it as well.
I was kind of reading a lot ofit but it was really precise
language but it was justcrickets.
I didn't know it as well.
I was kind of reading a lot ofit but it was really precise
language, but it was literallyno laughs, like literally not.
The only laugh I got was on thePhantom of the Chartera and it
(15:29):
was just like one dude.
Like those New York open micsare brutal.
They are brutal and everyone'sgood.
Like they are good.
Everyone in New York, with theexception of like one guy
tonight, is good.
Like they're written material,they have an energy, they have a
(15:53):
lot of stage time and they'regetting up in these open mics
and it's crickets and it's justbecause there's almost like a
jadedness.
You see, you feel and uh, nexttime jeremy's on he'll talk
about it.
I mean, we were just just sortof blown away by the brutality
of the new york open mic scene.
(16:14):
Oh so maine feels sort of likeyeah, everyone's just hairy and
you know, drinking beer and waylooser and chiller there's a lot
.
Everyone just seems less upsetand unhappy.
They seem happier than New York.
Okay, I am brain dead.
It's late, it's been a long day, it's been a very nerve
(16:38):
wracking day.
I really didn't want to go dothis.
I was sitting there for thefirst hour and a half watching
these comics and just reallylike what am I doing with my
life?
And then you hung in there andyou do it and I was happy with
(16:59):
the way it went.
And then we've got a newchapter.
We just turned the page.
Chapter two Real shows, realcomedy shows Coming up, coming
at you, low energy podcast, but,I hope, fun to listen to.
It's exciting to have a journaland even if it was just for
(17:19):
myself coming back to it 10years later.
But to know that three of youare listening is also makes me
happy.
Now, it's just you listening.
She's just you.
There's no one else.
It's just you listening to this.
It's you and me.
That's it, you and me.
Baby, all right, go do somecocaine.
(17:41):
I'll see you next time.
Hey, welcome to Starting Stand-Up.
I'm David Walton.
If you're new here, I'm anactor.
I've been doing TV and film for20 years and then I got this
delusional idea that I can getgood at stand-up comedy and so I
started and it's not going welland this whole podcast kind of
tracks the slow motion car crashof what it's like to start
(00:24):
something.
That's really hard.
This is a very special episodebecause hours ago and I'm not
lying hours ago at my 16th openmics, something very, very
exciting, weird, kind of scaryhappened For the first time ever
the hosts of this show they'reactual comics.
They asked me to be in theirreal shows, like with paying
(00:45):
customers and everything, notopen mics like actual shows.
And this is a cool episodebecause I didn't know this was
going to happen and I kind ofrecorded my struggles this
afternoon, a little taste of myneuroses, prior to going up.
I will share the actual openmic that got these guys to give
(01:07):
me an opportunity.
So you're getting it all.
You're just going to get it rawand fresh, just the way you
like it.
So buckle up and thank you forbeing here.
Oh man, that's rubbish.
(01:38):
That's rubbish.
So journal entry, I'm gonna godown a bit of furtive and I do
an open mic, I know what I needto do, which is just to rehearse
over and over and over and overagain.
Profound resistance.
I don't want to do it.
I it's weird the the idea ofmemorizing something and then
(01:58):
performing it somehow removesthe joy.
It's like I I want to go upthere and not knowing what's
going to happen and what's goingto come out of my mouth and
somehow just like having a wholeset routine and doing it feels
wrong and I I don't know if thatmeans that I'm not, that I
(02:20):
can't do standup, or whetherthat means it's just an attitude
thing.
I don't know what it is, butthere's something about kind of
having it all memorized that Iam profoundly resistant to and
also just practicing it over andover and over again In my
office alone is like nails on achalkboard.
(02:41):
But I know that the better Iknow it.
It's like the host of theGolden Globes.
She did it, I don't know.
She kept saying on the redcarpet that she did it like 92
times.
She knew it so well that shecould just relax and have fun.
Maybe if I was hosting theGolden Globes I could rehearse
it, but in this case, I'm goingto Biddeford, maine on a
(03:03):
Wednesday before a snowstorm.
So what am I trying to say here?
I'm trying to say that I don'tknow why I have such a profound
resistance to doing all thisstuff and that's sort of my
pregame thought.
I am excited to kind of do thismaterial.
It's six o'clock, I'll leave inan hour, I'll come back, I'll
share what I did and then mypostgame.
(03:25):
It's going to be a classic rawepisode Pre-game performance,
postgame Super Journal Vibes.
I'm at the Comedy Mill here inBiddeford, maine.
I showed up at 7.31.
There were already 12 namesdown, so I'm number 13.
And there's usually about 20comics that come to Biddeford
main on a Wednesday.
(03:46):
It's 11 degrees outside and thisis my least favorite part of
the process.
There's just a bunch of dudes,uh, talking aggressively to each
other, just really high energy,and it's very hard for me.
So I just sit in a chair.
Sometimes I have some chats,but it's just exhausting.
(04:07):
I'm exhausted.
So I've got to wait about anhour and a half, maybe longer,
to go up and at that point Iwill have forgotten everything I
was working on and it will be awhole new thing because it just
goes away.
You get all primed up, you getjacked.
You rehearse, rehearse.
You get through it.
(04:28):
Car ride down, you get ready togo, and then you wait an hour
and a half and everythingchanges.
The energy, all of it changes.
So these are some of theobstacles, but I'm excited to
see what we got.
We're going to just rip.
The intention tonight is tobring energy, like to be a
(04:53):
high-energy guy and just beloose and connected again and
not be too attached to anything,just to roll like I'm giving a
wedding toast as opposed todoing precision guided missiles.
Just, lucy Goose, see whathappens.
Trust that I know and will saya couple of the jokes.
And just also not worry toomuch that you know we're not
(05:17):
filming a fucking HBO specialhere.
I'm at the Comedy Mill inBiddeford, maine.
All right, that's my pregamejournal and I'll see you after.
The next comic coming up isWalton.
I don't know his first name.
Let's go, he knows who I wastalking about david walt,
(05:37):
everybody.
Thank you very much.
I, uh, I'm gonna talk aboutsome white problems.
Yeah, like my dad didn't hug me,I uh.
No, I ended up talking about mydad.
He's 84, okay, so he's sort ofputting out a three-footer, on
(05:58):
the 18th green of life, if youwill, but he's got dementia, so
he's facing the wrong way.
It's like, dad, the hole's overhere and you're not holding a
putter, dad, that's a spatula.
But no, my dad actually didn't,doesn't hug he's.
He was born in 1940, right, andthat was not a generation of
hugger.
(06:18):
Uh, back then, the only theonly time you ever hug someone
is if they survived the titanic.
That was it and uh.
But I don't blame him, you knowwhat?
What I mean?
Like this was a generation youreally got to go there.
Like, if you're, you know,seven years old, your mom died.
Your dad just came up to youand was like she was a good
(06:40):
woman, son, and I know you'resad, but here's a stick.
Go, poke some holes and feelbetter and put on your Sunday
best in a couple hours, becauseI'll be marrying your mother's
younger sister this afternoon.
Truly, so I don't blame him.
(07:01):
You know his love language ismy dad's love language is firm
handshakes and disappointedsighs.
He's up in Boston right now,extremely disappointed about
what I'm doing.
I'm not lying.
The first time I ever hugged mydad was when I was going away to
college and my mother forced it.
He was so pissed off hepreferred the head nod across
(07:21):
the room.
But she walked like a hawk andhe came up to me and it was the
weirdest thing to see a grownman he was 60 at the time and he
just sort of spazzed out.
He goes are you happy, candy?
Are you happy with this?
To my mom.
And then he did the weirdestthing.
He gave me this, uh, thisadvice.
It's sort of the only advicehe's ever given me.
He said, david, I don't carewhat you do, just don't get
(07:47):
caught.
And I was like what the fuckdoes that mean?
Did that hug just turn me intoJeffrey Dahmer or something?
And then I thought about it.
I was like that's really goodadvice.
And I'm going to be honest,I've done a lot of illegal
things in my life and I havenever, ever been caught by my
dad.
(08:08):
So I'm overcompensating rightnow.
I'm overcompensating with thelack of hugs I got and I'm
hugging the shit out of my 12and 11-year-old.
My wife and I are kind ofcreepy about it.
We do like Oreo cookie, or I'ma cookie, she's a cookie and my
son's in the middle.
He's the sweet cream filling.
We're just dipping ourselvesinto warm emotional milk.
It's really weird.
It's slightly disturbing.
(08:29):
My dad witnessed it once and Ihonestly think he contracted
dementia intentionally to forgetit, forget what he saw.
But you know they say that kidsthere's a problem with the
amount of hugging we're doing.
(08:50):
Kids will.
They'll try to mimic what theygot as kids when they're grown
up.
So I have this fear that mydaughter, who I hug so much, is
going to have her senior projectbe like I would like to do an
MDMA-assisted cuddle, puddlewith the teachers of the school.
The other problem with huggingso much is my kids don't have
shame.
(09:10):
There's no shame and some shameis good.
You know what I mean.
Like the other day, my daughter.
She goes Dad like I thought shewas asking for like a pencil,
but she was doing her normalthing after school, like eating
avocado toast, watching Koreandramas, and she was like.
She was like, hey, dad, can youget me a new pair of underwear?
(09:31):
I just sharted and I was likewhat the fuck arearted talking
about inside?
I was like, first of all, whyare you so relaxed?
And say, why are you stilleating, sweetheart?
The truth is like I came from abig family man.
You had it went when I shartedback then.
I didn't tell a soul.
I had five siblings.
I ran to the bathroom.
(09:51):
I didn't tell a soul.
I was putting underwear washing.
Ran to the bathroom.
I didn't tell a soul.
I was putting underwear,washing it away like I was
disposing a body and like,because if my siblings had found
out that I'd shit myself, Iwould have been, you know,
shirtzilla for 18 months.
I would have been shart attack.
I would have been like this isthe Phantom of the Shardera, my
brother.
You, oh, don't shake mybrother's hand.
(10:13):
It's 90% feces, you know.
And the truth is.
And I wanted to tell my daughter, like, sweetheart, look, I
don't want you to feel shame, Idon't want you to, but I would
just like a little bit ofembarrassment when you shake
yourself.
So I know you're fucking human,but do you think, grandpa, when
he shits himself, continues toeat dinner?
(10:37):
No, he lashes himself intooblivion.
Damn it, candy, I gotta gochange my underwear.
Damn, I shot myself again.
Please pause the movie.
I apologize.
He's gonna feel like hebetrayed his ancestors and I
want a little more of that fromyou, sweetheart.
Parenting's hard.
The other day my son asked meif I'd ever done cocaine.
(11:01):
And thank you fifth grade deerprogram, fuck you.
And you know I don't lie to mykids and that's really the issue
.
So he goes Dad, have you everdone cocaine, ever know cocaine?
I was like, why do you havesome?
No, I said.
I said I said I just fuckingbit the bullet.
I was driving to school.
(11:22):
And I go, yes, and I look overand he's horrified, he's truly
horrified and he goes what, howmany times did you do it?
And I was like all the times,all the times I was like I don't
know, I don't remember, I don'tremember boy, and he goes, well
, no, but like, is there a range, like, how many times I'm like
(11:46):
I don't know, between one andevery time it was ever offered
to me.
And then no, no.
And then I was like, and thenhe goes, no, no, dad, but why do
you do it?
What's it like?
Like, what is it like?
And I said, well, first of all,if you had done it, you'd have
a lot more confidence askingthese questions of me.
(12:08):
Secondly, I tried to get on hispage.
You know what I mean.
I was like you know when youreally, really, really want
candy and you'd suck your bestfriend's dick to get it.
You know that's what it's like.
That was too far, it's crazy.
You just never know what's toofar.
That was my favorite joke ofthe whole lot Silence.
(12:31):
Now, the truth is it's none ofyour fucking business what I
said to my son.
Alright, that's my business.
It's between me and the socialworker and the DEA agent.
Anyway, I think I'm gettingclose to my time, but the truth
is I'm gonna bring it back to mydad.
Dementia's really fun, actuallyin a weird, because you can ask
(12:53):
your dad crazy questions.
My dad's a conservative guy.
You can ask him crazy questionsLike Dad, have you ever smoked
meth?
He's like I don't think so.
But I was all spiraling aboutthe cocaine thing and I was like
Dad, have you ever done cocaine?
And he was like wow, do youhave some?
No, we actually did a bunch ofblood together, but it had all
this baby diuretic in it.
So, to sum up, my dad, me andmy daughter all need new
(13:17):
underwear.
My name's David Walton.
Have a good one.
Fuck yeah, give it up for DavidWalton everybody.
Huh, cocaine, fucking cowboyover here.
Hell yeah, I've never wanted togo home and hug my children so
(13:38):
much in my fucking life, dude.
I just did it.
So I'm not exactly sure whereI'm going to work on it to get
it funnier, funnier, funnier.
But like anything, if I givemyself a few days and fresh ears
, it I'm sure I'll have ideas.
But the lesson, the takeawayfor me is just focusing on
(14:00):
something.
It's so hard.
For me it's much more fun tojust kind of spray all these new
ideas and kind of write andramp and vamp and do these
10-minute loose 10s and justcomplain and getting into it and
trying to tighten, tighten,tighten is what I basically
(14:21):
forced myself to do and therewards are obvious.
You actually have a set thatstarts to feel like actual
stand-up and there's care to it,there's shape.
Even jokes that aren't thatgreat are still, you know,
fillers that keep people engaged, and so it's getting there.
(14:43):
And it's getting there to thepoint where you know we're gonna
perform for paying audiences inMaine.
Here we go.
So that was my 16th open miclucky number 16.
You know.
Hopefully, with these newaudiences I can, I can start to
get that.
You know the joy of reallyconnecting to a room, a bigger
(15:06):
room, you know, with more peoplewho are fired up to laugh.
You know the hardest thing withthese open mics.
I did basically that set in NewYork and it was just crickets.
I didn't know it as well.
I was kind of reading a lot ofit but it was really precise
language but it was justcrickets.
I didn't know it as well.
I was kind of reading a lot ofit but it was really precise
language, but it was literallyno laughs, like literally not.
The only laugh I got was on thePhantom of the Chartera and it
(15:29):
was just like one dude.
Like those New York open micsare brutal.
They are brutal and everyone'sgood.
Like they are good.
Everyone in New York, with theexception of like one guy
tonight, is good.
Like they're written material,they have an energy, they have a
(15:53):
lot of stage time and they'regetting up in these open mics
and it's crickets and it's justbecause there's almost like a
jadedness.
You see, you feel and uh, nexttime jeremy's on he'll talk
about it.
I mean, we were just just sortof blown away by the brutality
of the new york open mic scene.
(16:14):
Oh so maine feels sort of likeyeah, everyone's just hairy and
you know, drinking beer and waylooser and chiller there's a lot
.
Everyone just seems less upsetand unhappy.
They seem happier than New York.
Okay, I am brain dead.
It's late, it's been a long day, it's been a very nerve
(16:38):
wracking day.
I really didn't want to go dothis.
I was sitting there for thefirst hour and a half watching
these comics and just reallylike what am I doing with my
life?
And then you hung in there andyou do it and I was happy with
(16:59):
the way it went.
And then we've got a newchapter.
We just turned the page.
Chapter two Real shows, realcomedy shows Coming up, coming
at you, low energy podcast, but,I hope, fun to listen to.
It's exciting to have a journaland even if it was just for
(17:19):
myself coming back to it 10years later.
But to know that three of youare listening is also makes me
happy.
Now, it's just you listening.
She's just you.
There's no one else.
It's just you listening to this.
It's you and me.
That's it, you and me.
Baby, all right, go do somecocaine.
(17:41):
I'll see you next time.
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