I entered a comedy contest against 9 other comedians at Flappers comedy club in Burbank Cailfornia. I did not win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place...Part of that was my fault of struggling to tell my stories as my eccentric hopeless romantic characterization of myself in less than 6 minutes. The other part that sealed the deal so I would not win is a woman kept interupting me and shouting out that I'm not funny and that I'm not telling and jokes and kept asking me where is the jokes? Everytime I tried to start up new material or continue on. I thought she was very rude and full of herself to try to make me look bad on stage and engage her in a duel. I had to handle her by calling her a gentlewoman and a woman of refined class, but she wanted to still fight with me, while I wanted to continue where I left off. No one else got heckled by her and no one else had any hecklers trying to fight with them while they were on stage. I need to learn how to handle hecklers and rude pushy people like this while I am on stage. Out of the 23 people in the audience of mostly white people, 10 thought I was funny. Maybe, but not most likely I could have placed 3rd if that narcissistic retard did not ruin my last 2 minutes to be up on the stage and throw me off my train of thought. The 3 comics who won were either the funniest or the most seasoned comics used to being onstage of the group.
I have done much better before, I am told that my comedy does better with a more intelligent and educated crowd of people who embrace eccentrics the same crowd of hipsters or young adults in their late teens to late 30's is who my main audience will be. The Jeff Foxworthy crowd of that type of comedy is not going to get or understand me and what makes me funny at all, they will just be bored or really confused that my material is not your typical stand up material you have all seen thousands of times before. My friend said that I could either adapt and change my comedy to fit in with everyone else's or sound and look like everyone else's sets and format, or I could stick to my guns and continue to find a way to get my name and reputation going and do the comedy the way I want to. I like the latter better of staying true to myself and being unique and if you get me great, if you don't then don't come to see me a second time, playing for a less diverse(as in less stupid and ignorant people in the crowd) more open minded, hipper, cooler, and educated intelligent crowd is where I want to be at anyways! I was told by my friend that I need to be less wordy and tighten up my material and do shorter stories and sets. Doing a 6 minute set of a long story and not having difficulty at the 4 minute mark with only 1 or 2 minutes to go was not easy for me. I was socially fearless as always on stage, but trying to organize my mind around how to think with less words differently than the way my mind works or how I speak is difficult. I'll work on it but I am not sure if I will be able to have a 2 minute story or a 6 minute set of stories in the next month, this new technique of how to reach the audience fast may take up to a few years to master for me. Some people love my comedy and think I am very very funny. Some just sit there and don't get any of it or very little of what I am doing as a character type based on myself on stage...Finding my way as a comic is what I am trying to do these days. I'm long past the stage of not knowing what it's like to be up stage, or apprehension about doing stand up comedy. Now it is all about how to refine and master stand up comedy so that the audiences can find it easy to laugh at and with me right away without difficulty.
I have done much better before, I am told that my comedy does better with a more intelligent and educated crowd of people who embrace eccentrics the same crowd of hipsters or young adults in their late teens to late 30's is who my main audience will be. The Jeff Foxworthy crowd of that type of comedy is not going to get or understand me and what makes me funny at all, they will just be bored or really confused that my material is not your typical stand up material you have all seen thousands of times before. My friend said that I could either adapt and change my comedy to fit in with everyone else's or sound and look like everyone else's sets and format, or I could stick to my guns and continue to find a way to get my name and reputation going and do the comedy the way I want to. I like the latter better of staying true to myself and being unique and if you get me great, if you don't then don't come to see me a second time, playing for a less diverse(as in less stupid and ignorant people in the crowd) more open minded, hipper, cooler, and educated intelligent crowd is where I want to be at anyways! I was told by my friend that I need to be less wordy and tighten up my material and do shorter stories and sets. Doing a 6 minute set of a long story and not having difficulty at the 4 minute mark with only 1 or 2 minutes to go was not easy for me. I was socially fearless as always on stage, but trying to organize my mind around how to think with less words differently than the way my mind works or how I speak is difficult. I'll work on it but I am not sure if I will be able to have a 2 minute story or a 6 minute set of stories in the next month, this new technique of how to reach the audience fast may take up to a few years to master for me. Some people love my comedy and think I am very very funny. Some just sit there and don't get any of it or very little of what I am doing as a character type based on myself on stage...Finding my way as a comic is what I am trying to do these days. I'm long past the stage of not knowing what it's like to be up stage, or apprehension about doing stand up comedy. Now it is all about how to refine and master stand up comedy so that the audiences can find it easy to laugh at and with me right away without difficulty.