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02/08/2008: ""
At showtime last night there were 11 people in the audience not including the comics on the show and the local comics and friends of comedy who always hang out at the Comedy Showcase. The club told me that their policy was at least 14 audience members to have a show. They asked me if I wanted to cancel the show. I've wrote about this before. When you start doing stand-up comedy your whole goal is to get onstage as much as possible. Every time you don't get to perform, you are falling behind. I've never told the club I wanted to cancel the show. I never will. I always want to do the show.
The show was good. The Comedy Showcase has always been a club that supports new talent and gives real stage time to new comics. We had a couple of guest sets from very new comics and a couple of sets from real pros before I went up and it was a pretty good show. Some crowd members showed up after the show started so by the time I got up there there were 20 audience members and about 15 comics and others hanging out in the back. I really had fun onstage and did a couple of new jokes about the presidential election that went well.
I could easily say 'I'm not doing a show for 11 people' and go home early and still get paid. I could easily do the exact same act I did last time I worked this club a couple of years ago. I want to do a show and I want to do new jokes. I'm proud of my career and I've come to terms with the fact that it may never go any further than this. I may have achieved all of the status and success that this business has for me up to this point, but I know that my act is still a work in progress and I know I could get funnier. The only way I know how to improve is to do the show and to try the new jokes.