After returning to New York after a week in Florida, the first thing I did was drop $60.
Thursday I went to Mauzone, a kosher deli in Queens with Brother of Ugarte. My mother had a “Buy 10 Chicken Specials, Get One Free” card that would have expired today. A chicken special is 2 whole roasted chickens, plus a jar of soup, plus a pound of salad. She had 8 punches on the card.
So now we have six chickens, three jars of soup and three pounds of various salads in our fridge. It feels like after spending a week with Zinester’s family for Christmas I had to do something really jew-y once I got back to New York. Loading up on chicken just because it was a good deal fits the bill, I think.
After figuring out how to fit so much goddamn chicken into my fridge, I went to R Bar for my first set back in New York.
Once again, a good crew came to perform in Brian Finkelstein’s Thursday night show. Will Hines, me, Michael Martin (an A.M. regular who introduced me to Brian), Liam McEneaney, and Ritch Duncan.
I thought that my own performance was spotty. I cheated myself out of three minutes because I didn’t plan out the jokes I wanted to tell. I got myself sidetracked by playing off some of the jokes that Brian and Will told before me. I lost my train of thought and didn’t want to keep referring back to my notes. Still, I got really good response from the crowd and the other comics on most of the jokes I did tell. I did some of the stuff I wrote about my Christmas sojourn that everyone liked. I also told a joke about hunting that didn’t go over so well. It needs both a rewrite and an audience that could give a rat’s ass about hunting.
One thing in my set has me curious. I know that it is poor form to make jokes about the tsunami. They aren’t likely to be inherently funny and so soon after the tragedy nobody would laugh anyway. So here is the question: does it makes me a bad person that I used the epic tragedy of the tsunami as the new intro to a joke so it would be able to stand apart from its original context? Particuarly if the joke hinges on bestiality? I slept like a baby last night, so obviously I’m not too bothered. I thought I should throw the question to the masses anyway.
One final note: A friend and fellow comic (who may or may not want to be “outed") has started a blog about how he is slowly coming to grips with his transformation into a werewolf. Some of it is strange, some silly, and some laugh out loud funny. It won’t take you long to catch up with the story and it is worth following. I am adding it to the blogroll.
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