dallas/ft worth

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!

Texas Trip

I just spent about a week and a half in Texas, it was 100 degrees every day! No rain or anything.

First week, I was at Hyenas in Fort Worth, working with Billy D. Washington, the opener was Shaun A, I'm not gonna try to spell his last name. Shows were great all weekend, Shaun was an awesome opener, really got the crowd into it! Billy D rocked, I'd never seen him before. He remembered me from the Comedy Works back in 2005 when I did a set for the contest. The staff was super cool, Jerod, the manager was awesome. Can't wait to go back for sure! They also have a couple of Dimebags guitars hanging on the wall, which is really neat.

Monday I went to San Antonio with Kris Shaw, we had a couple gigs in S. Texas, so we left on Monday. We went and hung out at River Center Comedy Club downtown and watched their open mic showcase. It was a nice club, got to see an old friend, Todd Larsen, and met some other cool comics. Tuesday we had lunch with David Beck, who was in town featuring, I met him once when I worked at Wits End, really nice guy. We went to lunch at some Italian place, I wish I could remember the name, it was awesome!

Tuesday night's show was in Weslaco at the Paradise Roadhouse. The crowd was pretty decent size, but not great laughers. I didn't have a very good set. But, it was fun. And the opener was Dat Nigga Tre. That's fun to say.

The next night was a lot better. We performed in McAllen at the Cine El Rey Theater, which is an amazing venue! Very good size crowd, kinda slow on some of the jokes, but I had a great time!

Thursday I headed back to Dallas to perform at Hyenas with Dante! I love working with Dante. The opener was Casey Coleman, it was his first time opening and he did a great job. Kind of reminded me of me when I was just starting out. Which sucks for him. Lol, jk. Well, Thursday night was pretty weird. Pretty small crowd and they didn't like to laugh at all, so it felt like a bad show. Everyone after the show seemed to enjoy it though and that's all that matters I guess. The weekend was awesome, had 4 sold out shows!! Billy, the manager, was great, too.

Met a lot of cool people on the trip, all the people at the clubs were awesome. Definately looking forward to going back to these clubs!