(because I didn’t really know how) and bombed bad
response, ‘Huh?! Me?! Seriously??’ – I mean, how do
on both nights. The same way I felt when I answered
you turn THAT down? However, I wasn’t 100% on
the question in my high school Miss pageant with the
doing stand-up. I never really thought about it as
only wrong answer. FML. Mortifing – and I know
something I’d be doing. Especially after performing
that feeling well. Decided to give open mic night a
at open mic, it terrifies me! It also happens to thrill
rest until I figured my s*** out.
me at the time, so I started doing some research on
my favorite comedians: Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman,
Louie C.K., and why I liked them. Along with
watching the documentary The Improv: 50 Years
Behind The Brick Wall (on Netflix) and Jerry
Seinfeld’s, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Now
this was preparing! Figured out how I wanted to
deliver my comedy, what I wanted to say, and how I
wanted it to come across (still figuring this out as I
go).
It had been a year since I did stand-up comedy
when I was asked to perform at The Comedy Store. I
was there to see a fellow female comedian, and
friend, perform. This guy up there, doing his spot,
asked a question that I happen to be the only person
Across Crazy
that fit the description of, or the only one that wasn’t
scared, so I answered to help the guy out. The
My first show was in the Belly Room at The
producer of the show liked my response and came up
Comedy Store – I told/acted out an incident that
to me after the show and asked me to contact him
happened early in the dating phase with my atheist
about doing my own five-minute spot on stage. My
ex-ginger-jew boyfriend (ex-boyfriend that is Jewish
with red hair), and how he tried to ‘Jewify’ me by