The Late Night Comedy Show

Finally I had my experience hosting a late night comedy show in a real comedy club. This audience comes in drunk, high, and wants to party. The women wear the short skirts with tops that leave little to imagination. The guys have the baggies, and their favorite team jerseys. The cellphones are out, and everyone is texting one another. The waitstaff is out fulfilling drink orders. Then as the host I am the first one on stage to get this audience to listen. If I have any intelligence I will give the audience, the silly, the dirty, and the shock.

The first night I tried intelligence and fell flat on my face. The club had "clean" rules and I played by them and it was horrible. The feeling of jokes dying on stage is like walking through a minefield. Pretty soon that's how your act is on stage, a painful death, limb by limb. The following night, the club lifted the "clean" rules and I brought out the dirt. By the time I got off, it became a promising evening of some good, dirty fun.

Now I realize why the comics have joke bags fulls of some good filthy jokes. When it's late night, that's what the audience wants.