Surprise 1: Despite saying I wasn’t going to, I did this again. I just got back from McGuire’s, having performed my 6 minute set in 8 minutes. Like the first time, this was the “Long Island’s funniest person” contest, and just like the first time, I didn’t advance. By design, I told less people than I did for the previous two. Mom and dad didn’t know about this (hi dad… remember when I said I was meeting my friends at happy hour? Yeah, that was half-true) so the performance didn’t get video taped by them, which leads into…
Surprise 2: News 12 taped it instead.
Aannnnnnnnnnnd that’s lovely. Nice to know 10 minutes before the night starts. I specifically caricature two people I work with / for, and the footage may be shown on News 12 either next week or the week after. Screwed? Yep.
2 of my friends showed up for support, which I fully appreciate. They thought I was good, and some of the people in the club thought I was ok as well. I did get some pointers from Sparky (one of the 3 comics to advance to the finals) which I also fully appreciate. One cameraman said I needed to find my audience. In retrospect, I should’ve told him “… they’re right in front of me,” but I didn’t think of it.
So now it’s 11:30pm, and since I didn’t have dinner, I’m having Wendy’s now. Somehow, I don’t think I thought my cunning plan all the way through…