I recently did two weeks at two of my favorite clubs Hyenas in Dallas and Ft Worth. I always feel like a rock star when I perform there, crowds are always great and they always have great headliners. In Dallas I worked with Chris Porter, one of my favorite touring comics right now, very funny. Follow him on twitter @iamchrisporter All the shows were great, met some really cool local comics, too, including Ryan Perrio who emceed both weeks. Funny opener, he got better every show, too. The first show in Dallas a little rough, I had been on the bus all night, I was exhausted by the time I hit the stage. My eyes started to water as soon as I got on stage. I stole some guys nachos in the front row, they were pretty good, so I gave the basket to someone else. Not sure why I did it but it got laughs. One of the nights a lady laughed hard at one of my jokes, harder than everyone because she got it right away, I said, "wow usually people don't get that right away." She said, "I'm a librarian," so I said, "well then shut the fuck up! How's it feel to be on the other end of that?"
In Ft Worth I thought I was going to lose the crowd within the first two minutes. A week earlier a guy at the Rangers baseball game fell onto the concrete and smashed his head and died in front of his son while reaching for a ball. Well, midway into my first joke someone fell out of their chair and I said, "is there a Rangers game going on over there?" Right when I said it I was thinking, "I shouldn't have said that." But I went on and did some of my best jokes and I think they forgot about it. Ended up being a really solid week. Hanging with the staff and some buddies out there was great. The headliner was Claude Stuart, super cool guy, very high energy. I love going to Hyenas, the pay isn't the greatest, but I still love it. And Randy Butler is one of the coolest guys in the business. And he just hooked me up with a sweet gig at the Kimo Theatre in Albuquerque August 5th opening for Anjelah Johnson from MadTV! My 10 year anniversary show in comedy. Can't believe its been 10 years!
Yesterday I got to perform at the Medical Marijuana Expo at the Convention Center with Jessica Osbourne, Matt Peterson and Rusty Rutherford, that was a blast! High people are a good audience!
Working on a new website, too, should be up by the end of the week!
