The Contest

4/7/2009

The Contest

After I had been doing Stand-Up for several months I entered a contest at The Bassa Vita Lonuge in Lakewood. Every newer comic in the city entered this contest including me. I was very excited to see how I stacked up against the other comics in Cleveland. The night I was scheduled to perform I was at the club super early again. I was super excited and nervous for this show. I had some friends coming and I wanted to do well. The first round consisted of like 8 comics if I remember correctly two of which would advance to the finals. I don’t remember all that much that night but I do remember this is the first night I made a real good friend in comedy.

The comedians were all pretty much what you would expect on a night like that some stunk some were good no one was really great. I had a pretty decent set and I was able to advance to the finals along with Jim Tews. After people started to leave I got to talk to Tews a little bit and we were shared are hopes and dreams of becoming successful comedians. Keep in mind at this point we were fresh faced young comics with about 7 minutes of total material but it was fun to finally have a friend that suffered from the same delusions of grandeur as me. Jim Tews and I have been pretty close friends since that night and we became even closer after the finals round were we both lost and shared bitter and angry thoughts with each other. We both did well in the finals but we were up against some stiff competition and it was really an honor just to be in the finals at that stage in our careers. I had been doing it for about 2 or 3 months at that point and Jim about 10 months and we were right there with the top guys in the city. It was the first time I really felt like I could do this at a high level.