Comments on: Dress For Success…And To Get Laid http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid Stand-up Stripped Down Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:08:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kandiman http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5312 Kandiman Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:56:14 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5312 Darnell: No idea if you'll read this, cos I just found it and it's a few weeks ago... but we had the same problem at my university. Does your student union have a bar? They usually want someone to do something, anything, with it on quiet nights, like Mondays. Failing that, see if you can use a lecture theatre regularly for it. You might not be able to have the crowd drinking, but it's better than just being the support act for the blues band, surely? Darnell: No idea if you’ll read this, cos I just found it and it’s a few weeks ago… but we had the same problem at my university. Does your student union have a bar? They usually want someone to do something, anything, with it on quiet nights, like Mondays.

Failing that, see if you can use a lecture theatre regularly for it. You might not be able to have the crowd drinking, but it’s better than just being the support act for the blues band, surely?

]]> By: Sando http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5183 Sando Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:22:34 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5183 Okay, roulette wheel and gimmicks in general are often awful ideas. Sometimes it can be fun to do a night where everyone has to have written a bit on something. But seriously, working through your act with an audience who can actually critique it is really useful. It's a pretty trusted idea in almost every other form of performance practice. Okay, roulette wheel and gimmicks in general are often awful ideas. Sometimes it can be fun to do a night where everyone has to have written a bit on something.

But seriously, working through your act with an audience who can actually critique it is really useful. It’s a pretty trusted idea in almost every other form of performance practice.

]]> By: Joel Fry http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5182 Joel Fry Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:33:08 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5182 ... Yeah. … Yeah.

]]> By: Sando http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5180 Sando Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:09:40 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5180 the most important thing to do Dennis, is find out more about this Ice House. Is it a real house made out of ice? Does it store ice? What's the deal with air plane food? If you can't dazzle them with the sheer brilliance of your crews comedic onslaughts, why not bring in some form of gimmick? That way the show will have a hook for people to remember it by, and then, even if you're fair to middling, later on people will be all... remember that show with the roulette wheel that would pelt the audience with ice if it landed on a black in the third doezen? That was novel. Silly audience, novels are for reading. Well, you get the idea. Also, taking the best of the openmicateers and doing a couple of hang out/chill rehearsal times could be really helpful. I know comics are all "I practice by myself in my room, alone, to calm down." But, any performance discipline can use a bit o' dramaturgy, even if it's peer driven. the most important thing to do Dennis, is find out more about this Ice House. Is it a real house made out of ice? Does it store ice? What’s the deal with air plane food? If you can’t dazzle them with the sheer brilliance of your crews comedic onslaughts, why not bring in some form of gimmick? That way the show will have a hook for people to remember it by, and then, even if you’re fair to middling, later on people will be all… remember that show with the roulette wheel that would pelt the audience with ice if it landed on a black in the third doezen? That was novel. Silly audience, novels are for reading.

Well, you get the idea.

Also, taking the best of the openmicateers and doing a couple of hang out/chill rehearsal times could be really helpful. I know comics are all “I practice by myself in my room, alone, to calm down.” But, any performance discipline can use a bit o’ dramaturgy, even if it’s peer driven.

]]> By: Dennis Laganiere http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5179 Dennis Laganiere Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:38:36 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5179 Thank you Brian May for coming out and capturing one of our Smiles open mics... We had a slow week last week, but overall things have been going well... Enough so that we're being given a chance to host a show at the annex of The Ice House in Pasadena on March 31st... The oldest continuous comedy club in the United States, and we’re going to put on a show… Woohoo… It’ll have to be a bringer, but still a lot of fun. We're excited as heck, and we’re hoping to impress them. Any thoughts? --- D Thank you Brian May for coming out and capturing one of our Smiles open mics… We had a slow week last week, but overall things have been going well… Enough so that we’re being given a chance to host a show at the annex of The Ice House in Pasadena on March 31st… The oldest continuous comedy club in the United States, and we’re going to put on a show… Woohoo… It’ll have to be a bringer, but still a lot of fun.

We’re excited as heck, and we’re hoping to impress them. Any thoughts?

— D

]]> By: Joel Fry http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5177 Joel Fry Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:50:04 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5177 It was popular. It was popular.

]]> By: Marty http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5176 Marty Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:13:58 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5176 A shame that the open mic closed, Joel Fry. Sounds like you had a good crowd there. A shame that the open mic closed, Joel Fry. Sounds like you had a good crowd there.

]]> By: Joel Fry http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5175 Joel Fry Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:28:30 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5175 Sadly, our hometown open mic here in Des Moines closed down this past week. Due to a smoking ban here in Des Moines and the rough economy, Billy Joe's Pitcher Show had to close its doors. I recorded the show, and here is my last-ever set there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4y-aum8nA We do have a new home now. I am going to be co-hosting Comedy on Court in Downtown DSM with my friend Jerad Cherniss. It will be a fun-ass show! Tell me what you think of the clip. Sadly, our hometown open mic here in Des Moines closed down this past week. Due to a smoking ban here in Des Moines and the rough economy, Billy Joe’s Pitcher Show had to close its doors. I recorded the show, and here is my last-ever set there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4y-aum8nA

We do have a new home now. I am going to be co-hosting Comedy on Court in Downtown DSM with my friend Jerad Cherniss. It will be a fun-ass show! Tell me what you think of the clip.

]]> By: Dennis Laganiere http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5173 Dennis Laganiere Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:59:44 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5173 Must.verbally.bitch.slap.guy.in.the.front.row.wearing.bowling. shirt. with. dragons.again… “Spare me... (Quiet pause while the audience stares incomprehensively at the comic for five long seconds, and then the comic leans closer to the victim like you would talk to a child)... You see “spare” would be technical term for when you finish knocking down all the pins with your second ball… I’ll go slower just for you” Must.verbally.bitch.slap.guy.in.the.front.row.wearing.bowling. shirt. with. dragons.again…

“Spare me… (Quiet pause while the audience stares incomprehensively at the comic for five long seconds, and then the comic leans closer to the victim like you would talk to a child)… You see “spare” would be technical term for when you finish knocking down all the pins with your second ball… I’ll go slower just for you”

]]> By: Darnell http://behindthebricks.com/dress-for-successand-to-get-laid/comment-page-1#comment-5170 Darnell Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:09:32 +0000 http://behindthebricks.com/?p=175#comment-5170 Dan and Patrick, Thanks for the advice. We went back this week and the crowd was a divided. Half of the crowd was there for the comedy open mic and the other half were at the bar (loud as usual) and eventually left. We're trying to work out some spots in our school, but until then I hope the bar spot gets better. It looks like we're getting more college students to show up for the open mic every week. I hope we pack the place with college students eventually and drive out the disrespectful jerks. Dan and Patrick,

Thanks for the advice. We went back this week and the crowd was a divided. Half of the crowd was there for the comedy open mic and the other half were at the bar (loud as usual) and eventually left.

We’re trying to work out some spots in our school, but until then I hope the bar spot gets better. It looks like we’re getting more college students to show up for the open mic every week. I hope we pack the place with college students eventually and drive out the disrespectful jerks.

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