2nd show in the run
Length 50 minutes.
Before Gig
Arrived late to venue (about 15 minutes before show). I feel rushed and ill prepared to start at the beginning. Yesterday I danced backstage to the house music. Today I am furiously going through notes at this point. Not ideal. I should be clearing my head for the performance. I do feel that I am too pre occupied in my head to be on form although this worry will prove fruitless. I just grab a brief moment to clench and unclench my hands and tense my core muscles and I am through the curtain. It is smaller stage this year. The distance from the curtain to the microphone is one pace. Not much scope for experimenting with opening walks.
During Gig
There was a woman on the front row Dorothea who immediately identified herself by saying hello in an idiosyncratic mode which provided about 30 seconds of adlibbing off the top.
Audience are good tonight and onside throughout. There is at least one reviewer in, he is scribbling away furiously throughout the show. He may as well be copying down the whole show down in long hand. He rarely looks up/smiles. Busy bee.
Opening, Life is a gamble goes well, although I am not sure if “have you picked the right God?” is the right out for that? Embrace it “like Alex Salmond would embrace and all you can eat buffet” doesn’t quite land but then was new tonight deserves another try.
Bookies shop. This is starting to come together as a routine now coalescing around the notion of being brought up in a female environment and the encountering male environment for the first time. However needs a stronger end to this routine.
Vicious circle of debt. Was obvious as I speeded up that I didn’t know it as well as I thought and was slightly stumbling over words. Will practice for tomorrow.
Trying to understand addiction. This is a lovely bit but it feels rambly and flabby in the middle. The punchline at the end when I claim I am addicted to sweets was underwhelming today. Usually a strong out but i suspect I screwed up the delivery.
The punchline for the boy on John Cravens Newsround in the Dad Embarrassment routine was blown because banter with an audience member led to the audience member revealing too much information about the topic. This was always a danger as he clearly knew a lot about the subject matter and I that was why I engaged him in conversation. There was comedy gold to be had in the banter but it went too far, I didn’t get out in time. I flew too close to the wind. If only the ancient Greeks had some myth about it.
Hairdresser this is working really well for two nights in a row and the longer I take with the set up the more the pay off works.
Probability working well.
Nate Silver routine still flabby.
Ending routine works but needs bigger out
After Gig
I remembered everything except one bit about getting a tip off a stranger.
I think this audience were too nice and therefore I found it hard to identify the weak points in the show as they were over generous.
There is not enough rolling laughter in this show. In terms of sonic shape it appears to have gone backwards to previous model of set up punchline. Laugh start, stop etc.
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