Stand-Up

Day 340 (26) – 5 Minute Countdown

I’ve just started a timer to see what I can come up with as a post in 5 minutes.  That’s 300 seconds to think of an idea and get it down on “paper.”

Ok, so whenever I’m in pressure situations, and don’t have time to think, I just start doing and then try to make something of it later.  For instance, I still don’t know what I’m going to say, and I’ve almost used up an entire 6o seconds of time.  I like to think that I’m like Queen and thrive “Under Pressure,” but that’s not always the case.  Whenever I get into some type of competition, I never seem to bring what needs to be brought, ya dig?

Yesterday was one example, but an even more painful memory of not being able to deliver the goods was when I was in the Semi-Finals of the Amatuer Comedy Night Competition at OSU.  There, in front of about 200 people, and Mark Curry, Jo Koy, and Daniel Tosh as my judges, I forgot the middle part of my set, and mumbled “Uh… um” for 30 seconds.  It was the longest 30 seconds of my life as I searched for whatever it was I had planned to say, and the event still causes anxiety today whenever I’m performing new material.

Well… time’s about up and I still don’t have a solid joke, except maybe:

How much would a British person pay to see H20 go from below 0 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius?  A li-quid.

(Yeah, that’s the best I got.)