Brady’s Blog

if you read this blog, you know i have recently become involved in standup comedy..

i have only “been up” three times, but i am hoping to do more soon..

i find it to be a LOT of fun..

and for me it is a somewhat natural transition for some of the material i have written here..

that is to say, i feel like a good deal of the stuff you have read here will translate rather well to the stage..

but..

it does not rewrite itself..

so.. when i am doing standup, this blog will suffer..

i will try to counter that when i can by providing you video of my performances, but i cannot always guarantee that..

so.. what i’m saying is..

please be patient with me in this process..

i am no less dedicated now than i have ever been to my original objective, which is to write comedy..

but not all of the comedy i write now will make it to this space..

so hang tight..

i am still here..

working for you..

yanking yuks out of you like so many still-healthy teeth..

bottom line..

NOTHING HAS CHANGED..

it’s not like i died..

or starting playing world of warcraft..

is there anything dumber than a roadside memorial cross?

here’s what the roadside memorial cross tells the world:

“hello there random automobile driver.. guess what? somebody died somewhere around here.. you have no idea who it was.. or what happened.. or if it was their fault or somebody else’s.. you don’t know anything.. just somebody is dead.. so thanks for looking over here!”

what a wonderful tribute..

oh, it also tells the world there is someone stupid enough to park his or her vehicle on the side of this busy highway and risk his or her life to stick a cross in the ground in honor of someone who was killed on that same busy highway..

presumably if that person got killed putting out a cross, someone would come along and build a memorial in his or her honor..

and so on and so on, until everyone is dead..

which is how the world would end if i was writing the story..

this past wednesday was my third time to do stand-up comedy..

i think it was my best performance yet, despite a couple of rookie mistakes..

first rookie mistake?

somebody’s cell phone rang about one minute into my set.. and i let it distract me..

i think the thing with a cell phone or like disturbance is you have to either completely ignore it or go all the way in confronting it..

instead i just kind of said “oh great.. a phone call..”

not good..

and totally messed up a punchline..

so.. for the first time i was privileged to enjoy that “oh what just happened” feeling..

but just a minute or two later i got probably the biggest laugh i’ve earned off of a line that was not prepared at all..

THAT IS A BLAST!

that.. to me.. so far.. is what it is all about..

being me..

and being funny..

because here’s the thing..

standup comedy is not a new thing..

and on any given night, there are a couple thousand guys standing up in front of a couple thousand “brick” walls..

and they all have jokes..

but if i can be me..

and be funny..

nobody else can do that..

that’s what i’m striving for..

so overall it was a fun night and a great continuation to this learning experience..

i also got to see a comedian that i really liked..

his name is mike speenberg..

he was the feature act on what seemed to me to be an upside down bill.. (in other words, he was the feature act but was funnier than the headliner)..

oh.. and the club spelled his name wrong (speamburg) on the marquis and on their website..

so that was good..