Why did this come about? I’m not sure. Management there had requested that nobody repeat material from one show to another, but, I hadn’t seen anybody accomplishment. Even the Master, whose repertoire is extensive, did, I noticed, repeat from time to time. At the same time the Master had told me that Management had commented that they weren’t happy with my performance, but, the only reason given was that I seemed to know what I was going to say, as opposed to being an ‘off the cuff’ comic!
Well, there is no such thing, to my knowledge, as an ‘off the cuff’ comic, but many try to appear that way! Let me amend that; there are not many good ‘off the cuff’ comics. In the last year I had seen many appear without having given any apparent effort or preparation in their act; while they appeared ‘off the cuff’, they also never appeared on the charts laugh-wise!
I may or may not attempt to do another fifty performances, I’m just not sure at this time. I come away from the experience with a few gains; it made me more comfortable before a crowd, and that is never a bad thing. It allowed me, for the first time in my life to feel comfortable in a busy bar; I’d never liked the noise, the crowd, nor the mercantile nature of the establishments. However, that dissonance was most likely attributable to the fact that I never really had what I considered a valid reason to be in a bar.
I had enjoyed putting together this blog, so I’ll have to look at whether to start another one on another topic; there’s not much merit in writing about something I’m not actually doing. I could write a blog on books I’m currently reading, but, ...that might be real dull. I’ll have to think about it, and, as soon as I come up with something, I’ll write about it here.
