Over the past couple of years, life has been so busy. I'm not complaining, but merely stating a fact. Between my day job, my relationship and wedding plans, hockey and other commitments, one of the things that has ended up getting pushed aside has been working on comedy. That doesn't mean I haven't been doing shows or working on my act, because I have. But I haven't been working on it as much as I probably should. I had gotten out of the habit of hitting open mic's on a weekly basis. And to be honest, a lot of the time I did go out, it ended up being a waste of time. So it almost became a self fulfilling thing where I began to wonder if it was worth leaving the house.
Well tonight I had a show that gave me reason and inspiration to get out an really start hustling again. I popped into Betty's to do a spot on Brian Coughlin's Corktown Comedy show. There wasn't much of a crowd, in fact there may not have been a real audience member there when it did my set. But it felt good. It felt alright. It felt like it used to. I decided that I wanted to really work on new stuff tonight. Not all of it worked. Hell, probably more than half of it didn't work. But one bit that I came up with a couple of weeks ago did.
I had forgotten what it feels like to have a new bit work right out of the gate. The bit is still small and has tons of room to grow, but I love it. And I love the feeling I got tonight. It reminded me of why I do comedy and why I don't think I could ever quit doing comedy.
