July 30, 2013 Open Mic, Poor House Bistro, San Jose

Poor House Bistro, San Jose

Pain in the butt parking tonight as One Direction was performing at the nearby, newly renamed SAP center. I went another direction: Took the car home and walked back to the Poor House.

Pretty full crowd. There was a birthday party that was also celebrating a recent engagement. Dad sang Led Zeppelin. One of the comedians got into a friendly tussle with a member of the audience. It was pretty funny considering there was so little content in the exchange.

I was late, due to my parking adventures, so I went on late. Dave, the host said before I went on, we have 15 minutes left for 4 performers: everyone needs to be quick. No problem for me, as many of you know. I got through Lord of the Rings in 3 minutes. The audience listened, laughed at the right places and I received a few thoughtful compliments afterwards. Life is good.

The friendly tussle went something like this:

Comedian: what's your name?
Victim: Harry.
Comedian: Harry! Harry, what do you do?
Harry: none of your business.
Comedian: what? is this some big secret or what?
Harry: Shut up!
Comedian: so, Harry, what do you do here? Do you sing, play guitar, what?
Harry: where were you 15 minutes ago?
Comedian: I was outside getting my act ready. This is my act, folks, 2 jokes and then 5 minutes to find out what Harry does for a living.