I hosted last night for the first time at Soho Tea and Coffee in Dupont; the best place in town for comedy and a scone. That was very gay. Anyways, when I contacted Paul Schorsch about getting some time he asked if I was interested in hosting. At first, I was very nervous about it. But that didn’t stop me for accepting the offer. I figured it was a great opportunity to get more time than I am used to. So what does hosting entail? Basically, from what I have gathered from watching my friends do it is that the host has to A) warm the audience up b) introduce the comics 3) actually tell jokes.
Soho is always a tough open-mic, I guess because patrons have their computers as a distraction that engrosses them way more than conversations with someone else would. They can have headphones. Anyways, I have performed at Soho a few times before so I know the routine at least. I get up there and start into my stuff and I find I am way more comfortable than I have ever been before. Probably because I have told these jokes at least once before in front of an audience before and also I because I was sober. Seriously, I am not at the level yet to have anything in my system and it help my set. So I fired off some of my “classics”. A Stiff Dick joke always gets a laugh, one. The automatic toilets joke went well. Then Pancakes and Children’s Menus were alright. I think they at least were passable because I wasn’t stumbling over my words; I was actually enjoying my time up there. Which is something hosting helps with, since you are constantly going back onstage trying new stuff.
Kojo broke the damn stage platform, which ended up being a funny bit between him and Sean. Those random moments are always my favorites.
Thankfully there were some funny people like them and Tim Miller, Chris White, Tyler Sonnichson and our boy Jay, so the show wasn’t completely shitty. I felt like I finally started to belong up there, which has taken about 6 open mic’s to get to.
BTW, the Soho Open Mic is closing next week after 4 years running. That is some accomplishment. Please come out next week and see some the best comics in the city as they send the little coffee shop back to doing what they used to do on Monday nights…drinking coffee in peace.
Soho is always a tough open-mic, I guess because patrons have their computers as a distraction that engrosses them way more than conversations with someone else would. They can have headphones. Anyways, I have performed at Soho a few times before so I know the routine at least. I get up there and start into my stuff and I find I am way more comfortable than I have ever been before. Probably because I have told these jokes at least once before in front of an audience before and also I because I was sober. Seriously, I am not at the level yet to have anything in my system and it help my set. So I fired off some of my “classics”. A Stiff Dick joke always gets a laugh, one. The automatic toilets joke went well. Then Pancakes and Children’s Menus were alright. I think they at least were passable because I wasn’t stumbling over my words; I was actually enjoying my time up there. Which is something hosting helps with, since you are constantly going back onstage trying new stuff.
Kojo broke the damn stage platform, which ended up being a funny bit between him and Sean. Those random moments are always my favorites.
Thankfully there were some funny people like them and Tim Miller, Chris White, Tyler Sonnichson and our boy Jay, so the show wasn’t completely shitty. I felt like I finally started to belong up there, which has taken about 6 open mic’s to get to.
BTW, the Soho Open Mic is closing next week after 4 years running. That is some accomplishment. Please come out next week and see some the best comics in the city as they send the little coffee shop back to doing what they used to do on Monday nights…drinking coffee in peace.
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That Egg House joke has got legs.
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