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No real preface today. My audition at the Comic Strip Live tonight at 8:30, so I am thinking a lot about that and not much about anything else. For instance I forgot to tell my mailing list to nominate me for the ECNY awards.

The Comic Strip is on 2d Avenue between 81st and 82d streets. Please get there 8ish if you are coming out. Reservations are important, so call 212-861-9386 and tell them that you are coming to see me. I stopped in for a guest set at the Funny Bone in Fairview Heights, Illinois while visiting St. Louis over the weekend and had a good warmup set in front of a crowd that I wasn’t sure would like me. I’ll write more about the trip tomorrow, but right now I have a good feeling about tonight.

Remember: the gigs calendar is off by an hour. I can’t explain why. Trust the info on the main blog.

I am still having clock problems, so here is the deal for the next few shows. You can find further details on my calendar, but trust the times here:

Wednesday, May 11
8:00PM9:00PMThe Cocktail Room (East 73rd Street, between 1st and 2d) open mic
AND 10:30PM Village Lantern (Bleecker @ Thompson) open mic

Friday, May 13:
10:30 Funny Bone in Fairview Heights, Illinois late show. Brian Noonan will be headlining.

Monday, May 16:
8:00PM Comic Strip Live for my audition.

Eventually I will have to throw my two cents in about this game, but for now the day job and the night comedy is keeping me busy. Also, I’ve been blogging more at Stay Free! Daily. Tonight’s all-Brooklyn schedule:

8PM: I will be hosting Dubious Prospect, my weekly open mic at Ripple, a very cool Prospect Heights bar around the corner from my apartment. It is a one-drink minimum for comics to perform and it is starting to get some traction. No cover or minimum to attend as audience, but, seriously, I know that you want a drink.
[Ripple, 769 Washington Ave., between Sterling Pl. and St. John’s Pl., Prospect Heights]

10PM: I will be in Brian Finkelstein’s show at R Bar. This continues to be my favorite room in the city. I will probably be here until 2AM playing video bowling and darts. No cover or minimum here either, but, once again, you probably can’t help yourself.
[R Bar, corner of Graham Ave. and Meeker Ave., Williamsburg]

Because the gigs clock on the front page remains bollixed, I’m just going to start posting info about shows as they come up. The clock is right when you click through to the full calendar, so feel free to do so for more information.

(UPDATE: I am told that some people still get the wrong time on the main calendar page. *sigh* I’m not sure what I can do. Just trust what I write in the main blog. I don’t know why I worry; this site isn’t pulling any audience in anyway.)

For instance, tonight at 8:30 I am going to be in Comedy Social at Sin Sin Lounge on the corner of 2d Ave. and 5th St. Later, I will be in the 10:30 Morrison Motel show at the Village Lantern on Bleecker St. (@ Thompson). I know that I am going on early at the Social and late at the Lantern, if that is any kind of a guide for you.

I am duty bound to tell you that there is a better show to be seen and it is for a better cause. Tommy Amado - the host of the excellent Friday night Brooklyn Buffoonery show at the Village 247 in Cobble Hill - has put together a benefit for Kevin Knox, a Boston comic who has come down with cancer. He has a great lineup including Christian Finnegan, Bill Burr, DC Benny, Eddie Ifft and Geno Bisconte.

The benefit is at Boston Comedy Club, 82 West 3rd Street between Thompson & Sullivan. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Call (917) 856-8700 to buy tickets or (212) 477-1000 to reserve them. (I admit that I’m not sure why there are separate numbers for purchase and reservation.)

For some reason that I can’t figure out, the clock on my gigs page shows all events as an hour earlier than I set them. I’m going to keep this post on top for a while, updating it when necessary, but will still post the occassional item below. The correct times are:

April 27 @8:30pm at Sin Sin
April 28 @10:00pm at R Bar
May 3 @10:00pm at Alligator Lounge
May 16 @8:00pm at Comic Strip Live
May 23 @9:00pm at Ripple (Prospect Heights)
May 26 @9:00pm at Telephone Bar
May 30 @9:00pm at Village Lantern
June 20 @9:00pm at Freddy’s Backroom (Prospect Heights)

Further details here, but trust the times in this post. Please plan accordingly and include one of the shows in your plans. 

I really need people to come to my show tomorrow at New York Comedy Club tomorrow. It is an audition of sorts, and I need to bring five people to get in the show. Check out the info here ------------------------>

Please come on down if you can.

UPDATE: Thanks to all who came out. It felt like a great set and we’ll see if I get any road work out of it. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

When not reporting on my declining poker skills under the nom de blog “Ugarte” I am performing comedy under my real name, Charles D. Star.  Which I concede sounds less real than Ugarte does.

Once we work out the kinks, the upper right hand corner will list the time and place of my upcoming appearances with a link for more details (price, bringer obligation, reservations line, headliner). In the meantime, they are listed here.

Upcoming gigs

Tonight, 9PM (arrive at 8:45) at Stand-Up NY.  $10 + 2 drinks.  I have to bring 7; I think that I have the number unless people bail on me.  (I may owe you big time if you show and someone else flakes out on me.)

Thursday, July 15, 7PM at The Laugh Factory in Times Square.  The Legal King of Laughter is another funniest lawyer contest.  $10 to get in, possibly a drink minimum as well.

CONFIRMED Saturday, July 17, 6:30PM (arrive at 6:15) at Gotham.  $8 + 2 drinks (I think).  I have to bring 4.  Call 212.367.9000 for reservations.