rubinville

So we did an "industry show" last night at ComedyWorks. I had really nothing to do with setting it up, but I was told that there were about 20 people who were either commercial agents, managers or bookers at the club. The show was sold-out, we actually had to turn around about 20 people. Anyways, my set was really good, I even told jokes, and I'd say 9 out of the 10 minutes were pretty killer.

After the show I watched as all the comics flocked all over the "industry" people outside the club. Now first off, seeing as I've been doing comedy for about 5 years and haven't ever really met anyone from the industry before, I'm not sure that the industry even exists. For all I know these people are from the steel industry or the locomotive industry.

Instead of fawning over these people and making small talk and trying to hand out my business cards to everyone I sat at the bar and had a beer. Maybe this is egotistical of me but I really think that if someone sees talent in me that they should approach me, not wait until I come up to them. They should see something and want to be part of it, not want to make me kiss their ass. Unfortunately, the whole thing seems to be set up the wrong way, and, of course, comics seem to all be willing to kiss ass preemtively.

(I apologize for the above self-indulgent rant, but I gotta do it sometimes, it's either that or pushing people into subway trains.)

Got some new fish yesterday including this really big goldfish who looks like he has his brain on the outside of his head. Somehow this makes me think he is smarter than all the other fish, but I doubt that is actually true. Maybe he just has severe brain damage.