Story of My Life
So here I am, sitting on the floor, drinking a bud light, typing away at my laptop and staring at the empty surroundings I used to call home. Yeah nothing like staring at an empty house to make you suddenly realize you're about to make a life altering move. This Saturday, Elsa and I head out to Boston. The last few weeks have been real busy for us. We've been going around saying our goodbyes, hitting some of our favorite St. Louis places, and oh yeah there's that little thing about selling our house. Since this will be my last blog entry before I officially become a Bostonian, I wanted to share a few thoughts. I also wanted to talk about the "Real Men of Comedy" contest I was in last week at the Funny Bone.
First, I wanted to say thanks to all the comics here in St. Louis who I've met over the last couple of years. Alot of the guys have helped me get work, offered encouragement and have just been real supportive. I really appreciate it. One regret I do have, is I haven't been very sociable off-stage. Comics have made more of an effort to talk to me than I have with them. Problem is I'm a very shy person off-stage and this is something I've got to work on when I get to Boston. There are a lot of good young comics here in St. Louis. Come to a Tuesday open mic at the Westport Funny Bone and you'll see.
Secondly, I plan on having a new MySpace page up soon. I deleted my old one because that was the only way I could figure how I could set up a page in the MySpace Comedy section. I'm also working on re-doing my website. I know I've talked about in the past but with the whole Boston move, it's time for me to take it seriously.
Now about the RMOC contest last Tuesday, it went great. On Friday I got a call from Matt Komen who let me know I made the finals. I met Matt at the Judy Carter Conference last year and he told me about the contest. I got to the club with Jammer Bicks and hung out before the show. I met the other finalists which were Brett Clawson, John Doelling, Joe Lehnig and another comic who was from KC (I had not met him before and his name escapes me). Matt filled us in on what the order would be, how much time we'd be doing, etc. Dan Chopin hosted the show and did a great job warming up the crowd. Joe was the first contestant and he had a great set. I've seen Joe several times recently and he's really gotten strong as a comic. I was up next. I stood in back waiting to go on. Now let me say this, my goal that night was to have a really good set. If I won, great, but what was more important to me was just having a good show. The week before at the open mic, I didn't like my set. My energy was off and I felt like I just "went through the motions" when I performed. So I wanted to have a better showing especially since this would be the last time I perform at Westport for a while. I felt relaxed, confident and decided I was just going to have fun and see what happens. My set went really well. Afterwards I had several people come up and tell me how much they enjoyed it. I got some good compliments from the other comics including Greg Warren who was the headliner that night.
In the end Brett won and John Doelling got 2nd. Didn't bother me, they're two of my favorite comics and they both had great sets. After the show Jammer and I hung out at the Blues bar next door. I got some more compliments and then a really cool thing happened. Dave Carlow, who runs the Funny Bone, went out of his way to come over and tell me how much he enjoyed my set. He was really nice and we talked about the contest, etc. He then said he'd like for me to start working at the Funny Bone.
For over two years I've been trying to get noticed there and now when it finally happens, I'm moving halfway across the country. I just had to chuckle and think to myself...
Story of my life.
JG
First, I wanted to say thanks to all the comics here in St. Louis who I've met over the last couple of years. Alot of the guys have helped me get work, offered encouragement and have just been real supportive. I really appreciate it. One regret I do have, is I haven't been very sociable off-stage. Comics have made more of an effort to talk to me than I have with them. Problem is I'm a very shy person off-stage and this is something I've got to work on when I get to Boston. There are a lot of good young comics here in St. Louis. Come to a Tuesday open mic at the Westport Funny Bone and you'll see.
Secondly, I plan on having a new MySpace page up soon. I deleted my old one because that was the only way I could figure how I could set up a page in the MySpace Comedy section. I'm also working on re-doing my website. I know I've talked about in the past but with the whole Boston move, it's time for me to take it seriously.
Now about the RMOC contest last Tuesday, it went great. On Friday I got a call from Matt Komen who let me know I made the finals. I met Matt at the Judy Carter Conference last year and he told me about the contest. I got to the club with Jammer Bicks and hung out before the show. I met the other finalists which were Brett Clawson, John Doelling, Joe Lehnig and another comic who was from KC (I had not met him before and his name escapes me). Matt filled us in on what the order would be, how much time we'd be doing, etc. Dan Chopin hosted the show and did a great job warming up the crowd. Joe was the first contestant and he had a great set. I've seen Joe several times recently and he's really gotten strong as a comic. I was up next. I stood in back waiting to go on. Now let me say this, my goal that night was to have a really good set. If I won, great, but what was more important to me was just having a good show. The week before at the open mic, I didn't like my set. My energy was off and I felt like I just "went through the motions" when I performed. So I wanted to have a better showing especially since this would be the last time I perform at Westport for a while. I felt relaxed, confident and decided I was just going to have fun and see what happens. My set went really well. Afterwards I had several people come up and tell me how much they enjoyed it. I got some good compliments from the other comics including Greg Warren who was the headliner that night.
In the end Brett won and John Doelling got 2nd. Didn't bother me, they're two of my favorite comics and they both had great sets. After the show Jammer and I hung out at the Blues bar next door. I got some more compliments and then a really cool thing happened. Dave Carlow, who runs the Funny Bone, went out of his way to come over and tell me how much he enjoyed my set. He was really nice and we talked about the contest, etc. He then said he'd like for me to start working at the Funny Bone.
For over two years I've been trying to get noticed there and now when it finally happens, I'm moving halfway across the country. I just had to chuckle and think to myself...
Story of my life.
JG
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