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Saturday, July 03, 2004
Fair to Middlin'
Very strange show in North Andover at the China Blossom last night. Working with some great comics: Winston Kidd, Tony Moschetto (my personal favorite Boston act), and my man Ryan Murphy from Montreal. I wasn't really feeling into it, due mostly to the Red Sox going into extra innings right before I hit stage and some Mongolian Beef that made me feel like I'd swallowed about six cups of spackle.
My general lethargy was exacerbated by a woman in the front row that kept, well, grunting at me. Seriously. After every joke...scratch that, after every pause...she'd let out a one second grunt that sounded a lot like the dude in Sling Blade. It wasn't terribly loud, but I could hear it, and it was driving me batshit. It started out just sort of fucking up my flow, but after about 10 minutes, it was making me mad. It was so weird. I couldn't say anything, though, because by all appearances, she was a very nice older woman, and I would have looked like a dick, especially in front of a crowd that never quite made up their minds about me anyway. It really got in my head. I just wanted to holler at her, "What IS THAT? What the FUCK DOES THAT NOISE MEAN? CAN YOU NOT HEAR YOURSELF? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
I thought she might be deaf, so I did a couple of minutes of jokes with my head turned so she couldn't see my lips. Didn't work. In the end, I struggled through, never really on top of my game. I did sell three CD's, though. Someday I will figure out the economics of comedy CD sales. Some nights, I crush, and I don't sell one. Then I have very blah nights where I sell 7 or 8.
What REALLY blows is that I met Ryan in Montreal, where I had very so-so sets...and then last night, he saw me have a very so-so set. I'm sure he must be wondering just who I'm fucking in Boston comedy to get these headliner spots.
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