Working Comic: Day One
by Shawn Carter
Hi. Welcome to my blog. Working Comic. As many of you know I recently quit my job in auto body repair to pursue a career in entertainment.
The title “working comic” is a phrase often used in the comedy world to describe a comedian that makes money when they do comedy as opposed to an “open miker*”. I use it instead to emphasize that as a comedian you have to be putting in work during the day. There is a lot more that goes into comedy than just going on stage and reciting a few jokes that you’ve scribbled on a napkin while sitting at the bar.
So here I am. Day one. What have I done so far? I bought a cork board to keep my ideas and jokes organized and easily viewed while working things out. I copied all of my scheduled shows from my phone onto an actual calendar so that if I lose my phone or something I have a physical copy of my schedule still.
I have not written one joke.
I am torn between “yeah but it’s Saturday, you should start work on Monday” and “WRITE SOME F#%@ING JOKES THIS IS ALL YOU HAVE NOW YOU NEED TO MAKE MONEY YOU NEED TO BE A BETTER COMEDIAN AND MAKING MORE MONEY WRITE SOME GOD DAMNED JOKES.”
Alright let’s do that now. Google: weird news.
Doctors were performing surgery on a great dane in northwest portland when they found 43 socks inside of the dog. After removing the last one the doctor continued to search for one more to make it an even 44. After a couple of minutes he gave up and just said “wouldn’t ya know it”
A woman in Arkansas was arrested for allegedly shoplifting $144 of eye makeup. The CIA is continuing it’s investigation of juggalos as a criminal network.
There’s a popular video on the web right now of a ram sheep headbutting and destroying a drone aircraft right out of the air. Al qaeda realized a new strategy, Obama ordered more Ram killing missiles and I’ve started eating lamb.
Ok. Now that I’m done writing jokes for this blog. I guess I’ll head out to a show somewhere.
A list of all the jokes I’ve written today.
If you’d like to come to a show. I’ll be at Sally O’briens hosting the show every Monday.
And also:
Sept 9: MIT, Thirsty Ear.
Sept 12: The Comedy Studio
Sept 18-20: Laugh Boston
Sept 22: Laugh Boston (audition for Last Comic Standing) http://laughboston.com/event/talent-showcase-for-last-comic-standing-9-2/
*open miker isn’t a phrase that I like to use. The amount of money you get paid to perform comedy does not necesarilly have anything to do with how funny you are or how seriously you take it.
