It's amazing the "advice" you get offstage. I've had people tell me what to add, what to take out, to do something entirely different, how to position my body correctly, how to "rap" with the audience... I don't know if I should take it or not. Like all suggestions, I'm taking them with a grain of salt, but I don't know how I look onstage so I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong necessarily. I'll take a good tag if you've got one or maybe a suggestion on not swaying so much, but when you tell me to take an entire chunk out of my act? That's a little much I think. Isn't comedy a form of art where the performer him/herself gets to decide what's comfortable and what's not? There's no director, no stage manager, no producer - you do what you want and if it feels right, you do it again. I had someone come up to me right after I got offstage and say "you stickin' around? I wanna talk to you about your set, what you can do to make it better." Thanks but no thanks. At this point in my comedy, I want criticism but I also want to figure it out for myself - that's part of the journey, isn't it?
Anyway, come see me tonight at the Corner Bar in Minneapolis - 10pm, free!
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