Daily Dinosaur Comics

Go and read this excellent Ryan North comic about the standing up comedy. Then laugh, then repeat.
Yeah, I know I was there the first time I did any stand up.Eagerly looking at any of my friends, hoping that they'd have a near fatal accident or something bizarre enough that we could all have a good old laugh and cry. And, all that happened was my friend Sean hung himself. Great month that was. I fucking slayed with those jokes.

How does...

Today I am working on my New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2008 pitch, it's been quite hard to find any information on the festival this year. Bizarre, I know.

How does "The Luncheon Society presents The Hour and a bit Variety Hour" Sound?

An Interuption B

Tonight I was stressed out and headachey. I decided to take that Panadol Extra stuff, you know, lots of paracetamol with added caffeine? Well, it turns out I am a caffeine pussy. The Effects of the equivalent of 3 cups of coffee were enough to make me go from stressed to paranoid and willing to murder any teens who happened to walk drunkenly out of my flat mates bed room. It's ok, it's not statutory rape, because my flat mates an 18 year old female. So I decided to go for a 45 minute joggle... you know, the cross between a jog and a waddle? Next time I think I'll take something a little gentler on the body like cattle drench or codeine.

An interuption

This is an image I drew in 2006. I like the way I made the world look, though feel slightly bad that I made something similar to the Perry Bible Fellowship.

All Those Stand Up Secrets pt 1

Last week, at Kitty O'Shea's I did my first stand up since my surgery. It was a great night for me, I did a high energy high concept tight five (that's five minutes of material give or take a min for the audiences laughs to hopefully come.) based around some physical theatre stuff and that obnoxious Air New Zealand flying ad's music. You know? The one with the sad Maori lady singing? And the guy who decided to go fishing in his totally expensive Huffer shirt? It's ok, Huffer stuff is designed to look worn right from the shop, so, he probably hadn't been fishing so much as doing the accounts down by the 'scenic wharf'(tm)

Anyways, I realised a couple of cool things while there, and in a conversation with a couple of the other comics, got told another that should have just been common sense.

Today, the common sense thing:

When you tape your stuff, get someone to tape it from the middle, or even the back if you can. That way you can see just what was going on from a place where your voice isn't as loud, and you can hear how many people were actually laughing, as opposed to what ever you heard on stage, ( an almost braying Canadian dude and his bewildered french girlfriend, who liked my box, in my case.)

GtG p33ps {<--- Check it out, I'm a teen from 1998,) My girlfriends making me go to the hospital for some sort of Nana thing.