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02/05/2008: "It's just like David and Goliath but the Giants won."
I have often said that I could never work cruise ships all of the time. The crowds are consistently so good and so much larger than comedy club crowds that they make me feel as if I am better at this than I am. Cruise ship crowds make me feel like I am no longer a work in progress, like I have arrived. I love working comedy clubs and try to be in them half of the time to keep my act fresh and to keep me creating and trying to improve.
We did a show after the super bowl. It was easily the worst show I have ever had on a cruise ship and one of my five worst of all time. Victor Zuniga opened the show and was great, he is always great. The crowd sounded tired while he was out there. They must have been, because by the time I got out there, they were asleep. I tried and tried to wake them like the kid in the smoke filled house trying to wake up his meth addict mom in the fire on the after school special, but the only person I could wake up was really loud and not too friendly. When I walked out onstage, I told the crowd that playing me on was the bands last thing to do, so they were done working so clap while they leave. It is a little joke thing I've done a few times and it always gets me a free drink from one of the musicians after the show. While they were leaving, some of the folks in the crowd thought that was their chance to leave, too. I hadn't even done my first joke and I was already walking them. I am typing all of this with a smile on my face, just wanted to let you know. As the crowd shrunk, they got a little better and the end of my show wasn't all that bad. For those of you who have been reading my 'blogs' since they were 'online journals', this wasn't as bad Atlantic City, but it was close.
The best part was, during this horrible performance of mine (I wouldn't dare blame the crowd, seriously) I had to invite people to my late show. I was advertising myself. 'If you would like to spend another awkward half hour not laughing, come back here at midnight for my "R" rated show."
About 30 people showed up for the late show, but it was a pretty good crowd and I think we all agree, it was a really good late show. I did have enough time to individually poll the crowd and though they were exit polls which can be unrealiable, they seemed to enjoy it.
I'm in comed clubs on land for the next two weeks which I am looking very forward too. I can sharpen up the act to get ready for the spring break ship crowd.
Shot some sketches with some friends a few months ago. If this link works, check it out:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2089507613