<—- Here’s the information for my first set in the Niagara Region.  Anyone who still knows me from like, high school or like… being related to me is more than welcome to attend!

I realize the details here are very small, so check out the event page on Facebook to confirm your attendance:  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102847319820925

 

Or… I could put it this way:

Time	31 August · 20:00 – 23:00
Location	City Lights 67 St. Paul Street Saint Catharines, ON
More Info	Featuring… Bev Ellis Levi Mann Craig Watkins Phil Watkins Tyler Brent Brie Watson (<– That’s me!) Headliner CLIFFORD MYERS Special guest host MIKEY HENLEY Tickets $5 Showtime 8pm

I’ll have more musings on the subject as we come closer to the date of the performance, but in the meantime – take down this information and get ready to come out and laugh next Wednesday… either at my funny jokes, or at the sad state of my appearance.

…these are words I spoke over and over again last Wednesday night at my second ever hosting gig.   I wanted to write a post about my hosting gig last week because I thought it was a super-fun positive experience, considering I’ve been so busy working at the cinema lately I haven’t exactly been able to focus my attention on comedy, anyway, it was good to know that I wasn’t too rusty to pull off not only a set, but a whole hosting gig.  Actually, I found that the hosting gig was maybe easier than an actual set, because I got to ad-lib a bit and tell some true stories without them following a specific strict joke format.

Few comics showed up for the evening, compared to the regular Sirens turn-out, but it was enough for about 7 comics to come up and do a set and for me to talk a bit between each set.  I was a bit upset that more people didn’t show up, but I guess it’s to be expected from open mic nights in Toronto in the summertime.  Lots of people out of town, lots of people too hot to leave the comfort of their parents’ air conditioned houses. 😛

Anyhoo, my theme for the evening was: “Resignation” as I’d recently submitted my resignation from my job at the cinema to get ready to go back to school in the Fall.  I told several ridiculous stories about working at a movie theatre, as I have nearly 7 years off and on of experience dishing out popcorn and taking shit from moviegoers.

It was fun to retell the stories to people who don’t also work in movie theatres.  Also, afterward, one of the audience members (and a good friend of another comic) told me I was adorable up there.  How about that?

Reasons I shouldn’t find that as awesome as it may seem:

1) A woman said it;

2) I think she was just making conversation.  She probably felt bad for me.

 

Annnnnnyway…  as a result of my working so much and taking Wednesday night off to do Sirens, I wasn’t able to film the news this week, so Paul, the web-master/writer/creator of the website stepped in.  He’s supposed to be our Sports guy, but we haven’t established that quite yet.

You can check out that news report by clicking here:  http://laughdraft.com/2011/08/ld-news-19082011/

I’ll be back to film it next week though!

OH! And friends from the Niagara Region might be happy to hear that I’ll be performing a set in St. Catharines at the end of the month.  More details to come.  Stay tuned!

 

Thanks for reading friends!!  Once I’m finished at the cinema, hopefully I’ll have more comedy news to report!

 

 

 

 

Just thought I’d run people by a typical day of writing and filming our weekly newscast.

Step 1 was getting the day off.  Somehow I managed to get three days in a row off this week, you’d think I’d have spent some of that time writing jokes for the show, but alas, I went to Welland and didn’t want to do any writing there, so there you have it.

Step 2: Get picked up & driven out all the way to Milton, ON.  Why Milton?  Because Paul has the greenscreen in his basement and he lives in Milton, therefore that is where we must film the news.

Step 3:  Eat lunch at Swiss Chalet.  (Joey and Paul demand their Chicken n’ Ribs – I prefer the Chicken on a Kaiser.)

Step 4: Shoppers Drug Mart to buy cat treats, because I don’t know when the next opportunity I will have to buy Peanut her snacks and I left her old bag in Welland.

Step 5: Arrive at destination, 2.5 hours later.

Step 6:  Decide instead to discuss the details of a potential upcoming LaughDraft show.  Get completely immersed in that and forget to write jokes.

Step 7: Write jokes.

Step 8: Slow news week.  See if Steve & Brandon come with better jokes.  Take 2 hour nap in the meantime.

Step 9:  Steve and Brandon arrive.  They brought more jokes with them.  Huzzah.  All is not lost.

Step 10: Establish the order of the jokes, get costumed up and head to the basement to start filming.

Step 11: Get through the first and last scene only before a breaker goes out and we have to break for 10 mins. to let the electricity calm down again.

Step 12: Keep fucking up the wording for the same joke over and over and over and over again until you finally get so fed up you end up using one of the sloppy takes.

Step 13: Wait patiently while co-anchors and other special appearances do the same thing.

Step 14: Pick Paul up the floor.  He fell down as we threw a volleyball at him.

Step 15: Holy crap, we’re done!  We’re done!!!  We did it!

Step 16: Zombie car-ride home to Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……….

Is it worth it?

You tell me…http://laughdraft.com/2011/08/ld-news-05082011/