so i just got an email from pat, who runs the coffee blue show - he wants me to host an open mic between 8 and 9pm on tuesday nights (then the featured comics would come on at 9)
this would mean that i have to get to the coffee house at 7:45pm... this may prove to be difficult from saddle brook (now that i cannot work from home on tuesdays *arrrgh*) but if i leave by 6pm and drive straight down there, i may be able to make it in an hour and 45...
this would be crowd work... which i am not all that experienced with - since every show i've done has been between 5 and 10 minute sets - strictly timed... and i have always been too nervous to break from my set for fear of forgetting...
if i was able to host it, i would just have to do a few minutes, then start bringing the folks up and then having only a minute or so between them
so i told my mom this morning that i was offered this... and she starts saying "you don't need to do that, you don't need to talk to 16 year olds in a coffee house, you shouldn't waste your time"
see, she's only seen me once (live. the first time i ever performed - back in 1999) and she saw me emcee the chinese auction a year ago - which, there weren't many hecklers at a leukemia benefit in brielle...
i need the crowd work and if it's in front of teenagers who are looped up on the coffee, so be it... i really am not at a point where i can be picky. i've never been offered a chance to host anything before, and these guys (pat and rob) are my friends (even though they mock the bejeezuz out of me)
so mom is pissed off at me - i really don't think she's ever been keen on me performing comedy... i just want to do it... i want to get back into it and i want to feel comfortable on the stage and be able to ad lib - which i can do offstage, i just get really effing nervous on...
anyway - i just have to make sure it doesn't interfere with work...
