Give me an ace, I'm on the road that I must travel...
-Another lackluster blog entry… When my blog sucks, that means that I have a lot of new material for the stage that’s good. When the blog is good, that means I’m not writing things that are good enough to perform. So, be glad that what you are about to read isn’t that funny. I am.
-I was going through some old boxes yesterday and stumbled across some open-mic set-lists from over a year ago. I write all my jokes in shorthand, leaving out key words and the joke itself. I basically just write a few trigger words, which cause me to remember the joke. I ran into one exception yesterday. It’s a joke called “Meat Foam.” That’s all I wrote for the whole joke. Meat Foam. I have no idea what that means. I know it’s a reference to the Styrofoam that meat is sold on in grocery stores, but I know the joke wouldn’t actually be about that. If anyone remembers my Meat Foam joke, let me know. It sounds hilarious.
-Last night was The Young Bucks of Comedy at DC Arts Center. It’s a show with myself, Seaton Smith the Comedian, Sampson the Comedian, Keith the Comedian the Comedian and DJ Supreme the DJ the Comedian the DJ, and hosted by Kris Payne the Comedian. I just found out yesterday that “Buck” is a racial slur from the slavery days, and since I was the only white guy on the show, I think it looked like I put the show on to showcase my “workers.” “Massa Conner presents his Young Bucks…” I’m uncomfortable about reading that last sentence too.
To add another racial undertone, we were hanging out backstage before the show. At the time, it was all white comics who were there to watch, and Jay Hastings was playing with a prop whip that was backstage. I had to tell him to stop, because if Seaton walked in and he accidentally hit him with a whip, things would have got really awkward, really quick.
The show was okay.
-On the way to the show, Rory Scovel, Jay Hastings and I were listening to an 80s CD that Jay has. On it is a song that everyone knows from the 80s, but no one knows who it’s by (maybe Mr. Mister), or the lyrics of the chorus. We think he says this during the chorus:
“Give me an ace I’m on the road that I must travel.”
But that doesn’t make sense. Does anyone know what this song is?
-For some reason, for the past two years, I’ve been receiving a couple email newsletters from organizations to which I don’t belong. One is the Swiss Embassy. I haven’t bothered unsubscribing from that one because I like to know what the Swiss are up to, and it’s usually things that involve chocolate and handshakes. The other is from a fraternity, whose name I won’t mention. I have no idea how I got on this list. They just started sending me emails one day. I usually reply that I can’t make it to the charity bake-off, or whatever it is that they’re doing, and that the brotherhood is still alive within my heart. But I’m really starting to get annoyed, and want them to stop emailing me. The problem is that if I tell them to stop emailing me now, they’ll know that I’m in on their secrets from the past two years, and they’ll probably force me to adopt a highway with them, or whatever it is that fraternities do. Kids, don’t join fraternities.
-Last Wednesday, I had an audition for a network TV show. I got the first callback, but didn’t make it any further than that. There’s a lot to talk about regarding the show, but they made me fill out 60 pages of paperwork, and I’m sure at least one of those pages said I can’t talk about the audition process, which was a crock of shit.
I think it airs in May. If I’m in the show at all, then I think I can talk about it once it airs. But, if they cut me out, I don’t think I can say anything.
When this show about comedy comes on this summer, don’t watch it. It’s going to make good comics look bad, and bad comics look good.
-On a side note, don’t watch Last Comic Standing on NBC. I think it comes out this summer.
-If you’re in NY, I’ll be at the NY Improv this Friday at 9pm, auditioning for Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (Montreal). Come check it out.
-If you’re in Houston or know anyone who is, I’ll be at Houston’s Laff Stop, March 22-25 with Colin Quinn. I’ve never been to the Laff Stop, but I’ve heard it’s a great club. Hedberg, Dave Attell and Lewis Black have all recorded CDs there, so that says something…
-Aus.
-I was going through some old boxes yesterday and stumbled across some open-mic set-lists from over a year ago. I write all my jokes in shorthand, leaving out key words and the joke itself. I basically just write a few trigger words, which cause me to remember the joke. I ran into one exception yesterday. It’s a joke called “Meat Foam.” That’s all I wrote for the whole joke. Meat Foam. I have no idea what that means. I know it’s a reference to the Styrofoam that meat is sold on in grocery stores, but I know the joke wouldn’t actually be about that. If anyone remembers my Meat Foam joke, let me know. It sounds hilarious.
-Last night was The Young Bucks of Comedy at DC Arts Center. It’s a show with myself, Seaton Smith the Comedian, Sampson the Comedian, Keith the Comedian the Comedian and DJ Supreme the DJ the Comedian the DJ, and hosted by Kris Payne the Comedian. I just found out yesterday that “Buck” is a racial slur from the slavery days, and since I was the only white guy on the show, I think it looked like I put the show on to showcase my “workers.” “Massa Conner presents his Young Bucks…” I’m uncomfortable about reading that last sentence too.
To add another racial undertone, we were hanging out backstage before the show. At the time, it was all white comics who were there to watch, and Jay Hastings was playing with a prop whip that was backstage. I had to tell him to stop, because if Seaton walked in and he accidentally hit him with a whip, things would have got really awkward, really quick.
The show was okay.
-On the way to the show, Rory Scovel, Jay Hastings and I were listening to an 80s CD that Jay has. On it is a song that everyone knows from the 80s, but no one knows who it’s by (maybe Mr. Mister), or the lyrics of the chorus. We think he says this during the chorus:
“Give me an ace I’m on the road that I must travel.”
But that doesn’t make sense. Does anyone know what this song is?
-For some reason, for the past two years, I’ve been receiving a couple email newsletters from organizations to which I don’t belong. One is the Swiss Embassy. I haven’t bothered unsubscribing from that one because I like to know what the Swiss are up to, and it’s usually things that involve chocolate and handshakes. The other is from a fraternity, whose name I won’t mention. I have no idea how I got on this list. They just started sending me emails one day. I usually reply that I can’t make it to the charity bake-off, or whatever it is that they’re doing, and that the brotherhood is still alive within my heart. But I’m really starting to get annoyed, and want them to stop emailing me. The problem is that if I tell them to stop emailing me now, they’ll know that I’m in on their secrets from the past two years, and they’ll probably force me to adopt a highway with them, or whatever it is that fraternities do. Kids, don’t join fraternities.
-Last Wednesday, I had an audition for a network TV show. I got the first callback, but didn’t make it any further than that. There’s a lot to talk about regarding the show, but they made me fill out 60 pages of paperwork, and I’m sure at least one of those pages said I can’t talk about the audition process, which was a crock of shit.
I think it airs in May. If I’m in the show at all, then I think I can talk about it once it airs. But, if they cut me out, I don’t think I can say anything.
When this show about comedy comes on this summer, don’t watch it. It’s going to make good comics look bad, and bad comics look good.
-On a side note, don’t watch Last Comic Standing on NBC. I think it comes out this summer.
-If you’re in NY, I’ll be at the NY Improv this Friday at 9pm, auditioning for Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (Montreal). Come check it out.
-If you’re in Houston or know anyone who is, I’ll be at Houston’s Laff Stop, March 22-25 with Colin Quinn. I’ve never been to the Laff Stop, but I’ve heard it’s a great club. Hedberg, Dave Attell and Lewis Black have all recorded CDs there, so that says something…
-Aus.
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