Leslie On Stage

Ok, I really debated whether to post these videos at all. Critiquing myself is always unfun. I think it's good since I teach public speaking to get a dose of my own medicine. It turns out I do one of my pet pieves all the time. I'm going to try to fix it. I'm sure you'll see it and guess right off the bat what it is.

So, the first one is at Saddle Creek. I go there for practice on Tuesday nights. Tenacious D is now ringing in my head with a resounding, "It takes commitment. You have to wake up at the crack of noon and ask yourself, it's gig day, what tshirt will I wear?" It's late there and you can hear the pool game going on in the back. The guy egging me on in the background really thought he was funny. While I was up, he was harmless, but he continued to heckle and think he was funnier than anyone on stage. At the very least, at least I was funnier than THAT guy. Once I finished my set (because I am so professional, I have a "set" now), heckler boy realized that my Ricardo was sitting there with me. He got quiet for a while, spared some other rookie comedians, then got his drunk back on. At some point, he came up to tell me how good I was. When he go to our table, he saw how big we were, and just the look on his face was priceless. I tell him, in the video, how tall I am, but apparently, you've just got to see it to belive it. So, there's not a lot of laughs because everyone is a)getting their drunk on b) playing pool or darts c) working on their own sets or d) heckling. So, just click here to view this one. I'm sure with that intro, you're all desperate to see it immediately. Insert sarcasm here.

How did you like it? You're yearning for more you say? Well, I recorded the one at the Funnybone too. But I need to explain. Again, I have some work to do. I thought I rocked it out until I got home and reviewed the video. So, I'm working on it. But I got over a big hump performing at the Funnybone. I thought I'd build up to this competition and then see if I sucked or not and go from there. Turns out, I wasn't that great, and just like the glory days, I refuse to realize just how bad I am. I think I've got something here, just expected to be perfect at it right away. I went up and had a pretty good set laid out. It was my first time without my nifty notes. Thus, the bumpiness of it. And then, I whipped up some adlib. Not great for a 5 minute set. And then, ofcourse, I ran out of time, so I had to cut my set in half. Still, I had a bal. I kind of had fun adlibbing too. So, maybe I'll work it in. Here it is. Click here.

Thanks to all of you who came and supported me. I think the other comedians were fun. I've been to some open mics and competitions where they weren't. So, there's that. They had such a good turn out, that it was the most attendance to an open mic competition ever. Hopefully they'll do it once a month. It's $2 to get in, and pretty fun.

I'd like to know what you think. So, give me some feedback,either by comments or email. You can email me from here now. Just scroll down and on the right, you can click on the contact link.

That's how I roll.