Well kid, it's hard to believe that the summer is over. It seems like only yesterday that I had my first patio beer and now it's looking like they'll be closing them up soon. I hope I'm wrong. I really do, but I don't think I am.
The summer was busy, but not so much in a comedy sense. That is not totally surprising, since the summer tends to slow a bit, but I was hoping it would be busier especially after my very busy spring. In the spring I was all over the place - Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Burlington, and of course Toronto. It was also very cool because I won the Sun TV Absolute Comedy Contest thingy and also got a trip to LA. It was especially cool since I'd never been to LA before. Needless to say, I want to go back, very soon. So, to anybody in LA looking for a stand up comic / mutual fund analyst / slow footed stay at home defenceman, I'm available.
From a personal standpoint, the summer was crazy busy. In June, I proposed to my girlfriend. Luckily, she said yes. That has unleashed a torrent of wedding planning which if nothing else, has given me a strong appreciation of what brides go through, but maybe even more importantly, a new 5 to 7 minutes of material.
I did do a few shows. Probably the highlight was a show that was organized by Charles McCarroll in Ingersoll. It was at the Ingersoll Theater for the Performing Arts, a small, 150 seat theater. I headlined the show that was hosted by Brian Hope. The place was pretty much sold out and they were there for a laugh. Must have been because I ended up doing very well and getting 4 or 5 applause breaks, which is unheard of for me. But you know what, I"ll take it! The next night however, wasn't quite the same experience. Again, Charles had organized a show, this time at the OLG Stage at the Woodstock Fair. What we didn't know is that the OLG stage was actually the beer tent right near the midway. Nothing like trying to tell your clever okes to drunken bikers with children waiting in line for cotton candy and the ferris wheel. Apparently my bit about pulling shoe lace out of my dog's ass is a bit too highbrow for the biker folks. Suprising, don't you think? Needless to say there weren't many applause breaks that night, but the upside, nobody charged the stage with a chair and there were no riots. So that's a positive.
The fall is looking to be really busy again, both from a day job and a comedy perspective. I'm in a weird position for me in that everything is going well, leaving me very little to complain about. But you know what? I'll take it.
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