Off to Beantown
Well so far I've had two people ask me to update my blog. Since that constitutes 50% of my loyal fan base, I figured I had no choice but to do so. I wish I could say I've been busy with comedy, but that'd be a big fat lie. Instead I've been busy getting ready for our big move. Yes it's official, Elsa and I will be moving to Boston at the end of the month. As some of you know, this has been in the works for a while but I didn't want to say anything until it became official.
As far as comedy is concerned, Boston is a good move for me. It's one of the best cities to develop as a comedian. A lot of great comics got their start there. There's a lot more clubs, a lot more open mics than St. Louis, etc. Also NY is only three and a half hours away.
(Disclaimer: The next paragraph was written by the over dramatic/whiny part of me)
The thing is this, I'm very proud of what I've accomplished comedy wise in the last three years. However I still have a ways to go. I need more stage time. I need to develop more. I need to define who I want to be as a comic (God I'm being really overdramatic about this.) This is a not a knock on St. Louis. It's a nice town to develop but the reality is there's one main club. If you get in with them then it's a lot easier to build a career here. If you can't, it's awfully difficult to get consistent stagetime. Any success I've had with comedy has been in spite of me living in Saint Louis. I've had to go outside the city to have the success I want. I'm on the outside here and it's time for me to make a fresh start somewhere else. I need to go somewhere where I can get more stagetime. Case in point, take three of the comics I peformed with in the "New Comics" competition at the 2004 NYUCF. One has performed on "Premium Blend", one has performed on "Live at Gotham" and the other was just at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Now don't get me wrong they're all very funny comics and they deserve the success they're getting, but I also know that one of the main reasons to why they've had the success they've had, is they are performing a lot more than I am. They're performing almost every night of the week. I'm lucky if I'm performing four times a month.
This is one of the main reasons for the move. Yes it'll be hard and I don't expect things to come easy. I'm going to have to prove myself just to get consistent stagetime, etc. But my feeling is this, I got to try and see if I can do it. If I don't, then I'll have this big "What If?" and then I'll be unhappy and then I'll be a whiny little bitch and then that'll irriate Elsa and.... You can see where this is headed. So I need to just go out and give it a chance. If I go out to Boston for 2-3 years and don't develop the way I envision, then it's because of one of two reasons:
1) I didn't work hard enough at it.
2) I just wasn't as good as I thought.
I could handle the second reason but the first one would kill me.
Thanks for reading.
John
As far as comedy is concerned, Boston is a good move for me. It's one of the best cities to develop as a comedian. A lot of great comics got their start there. There's a lot more clubs, a lot more open mics than St. Louis, etc. Also NY is only three and a half hours away.
(Disclaimer: The next paragraph was written by the over dramatic/whiny part of me)
The thing is this, I'm very proud of what I've accomplished comedy wise in the last three years. However I still have a ways to go. I need more stage time. I need to develop more. I need to define who I want to be as a comic (God I'm being really overdramatic about this.) This is a not a knock on St. Louis. It's a nice town to develop but the reality is there's one main club. If you get in with them then it's a lot easier to build a career here. If you can't, it's awfully difficult to get consistent stagetime. Any success I've had with comedy has been in spite of me living in Saint Louis. I've had to go outside the city to have the success I want. I'm on the outside here and it's time for me to make a fresh start somewhere else. I need to go somewhere where I can get more stagetime. Case in point, take three of the comics I peformed with in the "New Comics" competition at the 2004 NYUCF. One has performed on "Premium Blend", one has performed on "Live at Gotham" and the other was just at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Now don't get me wrong they're all very funny comics and they deserve the success they're getting, but I also know that one of the main reasons to why they've had the success they've had, is they are performing a lot more than I am. They're performing almost every night of the week. I'm lucky if I'm performing four times a month.
This is one of the main reasons for the move. Yes it'll be hard and I don't expect things to come easy. I'm going to have to prove myself just to get consistent stagetime, etc. But my feeling is this, I got to try and see if I can do it. If I don't, then I'll have this big "What If?" and then I'll be unhappy and then I'll be a whiny little bitch and then that'll irriate Elsa and.... You can see where this is headed. So I need to just go out and give it a chance. If I go out to Boston for 2-3 years and don't develop the way I envision, then it's because of one of two reasons:
1) I didn't work hard enough at it.
2) I just wasn't as good as I thought.
I could handle the second reason but the first one would kill me.
Thanks for reading.
John
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