Fellow comedian and good buddy Danny Rouhier made some very complimentary remarks about me in his blog. I was thinking about putting a link to it in this post, but then I thought, that would just be vain… I’m not really sure if this is a reciprocal kind of compliment, but Danny, most of your jokes could be done by both men and women too… I should know ’cause I did a couple of your bits the other nite and C-R-U-S-H-E-D!!! Tee hee hee…
Tonite I judged and did a set at one of the DC Improv-sponsored “District’s Funniest College Competition” prelims at George Mason University. The show was in the atrium of their student center — which sounded like it was gonna be a disaster, but actually was quite awesome! This is the second competition in the series that I’ve performed/judged at, and I continue to be impressed by the students who come out to do comedy for the first time in front of like 300 people… and not just any 300 people, 300 college kids!!! When I was in school I was still daydreaming about becoming a comic. And some of these guys and gals were really, really funny. I love performing for college crowds. The stage at Mason was huge! I felt like a rock star. I was almost tempted to play air guitar during one of the laugh breaks… but then I thought better of it. Kudos to everyone who’s participated and supported these shows so far and a big “YAY!” to Allyson Jaffe from the Improv for putting these shows together.