My Set at the Walnut Street Cafe

This was a poetry open mic, that is generally open to all forms of the written word. I've done this room a couple times and actually managed to kill. This was the first night in over a month that I've performed. I know there's a rule about not putting yourself out there too soon, but to be fair, I'm not going to improve if I don't get feedback from other comedians and how am I going to do that if I don't put my stuff out there?

With that in mind, here's the link to my performance.

http://cartjockeyconfessions.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/walnut-street-cafe-june-11th-2014/

That's a very good routine, your timing is excellent persona is great and your just about indicating your punchlines without giving them away.
Good jokes as well, the ground hog one I think you smoothed it out because it sounded a lot snappier.
Only real doubter is did you introduce yourself, that usually helps.

Rough crowd, but doing comedy in a none comedy setting is tough for the best comics. You don't have the compere and expectation of laughs.

But yup that's a good little set, it deserved more laughs. I laughed at the bus joke well told.

Watched it till the end, 2 minor thoughts. First of all you're mostly telling jokes, maybe work some more character in to it. The embittered cart jockey is a good character let him speak a little more.

Secondly you end quite weakly, now I'm guessing this is mostly because you had a pretty cold room.

But work towards what I call a call back/spine joke where you introduce it at the start, reference it in the middle and conclude with it. Works pretty well in my experience.

That was one thing I kicked myself for. I forgot to end with, "I've been Nathanielle Crawford", which I should have done before pimping the blog.

Thank you for the feedback.

I wouldn't kick yourself too hard, tough room.

Are you doing a lot of gigs like that?

Well this is the first one I've been brave enough to bring a camera for. There is a video of my "graduation" night from the class, but I've been reluctant to post that one.

What's funny is that I actually killed it on my first and second nights there and I didn't have a camera then, so this feels a bit like the dead frog bit. It dances when no one's watching but when I try to show someone, it's still a dead frog.

What helped on those nights was the host who had this whole way of building up each performer, so that whatever you were doing, people were excited for it. Last night there was this woman who did the hosting because he had a gig somewhere else, and I don't mean to seem like I'm blaming someone else for my shortcomings, but she had a very by the numbers approach to hosting an open mic.

There's a comedy open mic in Charlestown that I haven't been to in a while and I think I'm going to try that one again soon.

They were a f**kin hopeless audience Nate. I liked the way you had faith in your material (which I liked) and carried on regardless.

Seemed a tough room, although you got a couple of laughs out of them which was pretty impressive. The jokes were a bit hit and miss, but you're at a fairly early stage, so no one's expecting you to be all killer at present. Just keep at it.

Thank you, guys.

Hi Nate good material and well done for stepping into the bear pit. As a non stand up comedian I would give you three pieces of advice.

1. Start with more of a Bam! Opening, get your audience and laughing loudly as soon as possible. Once you have them on the hook they will enjoy wriggling for you the more you tickle them.

2. Vary your delivery. Let it breathe more, more rhythm and bounce as you interact with your audience. Basically don't just keep it one note.

3. TAKE YOUR HAND OUT OF YOUR POCKET

I have been Marc Peirson.

Now I am Wendy Fishbaum but that is a story for another day,

Thank you.

Take your hand out of my pocket!

But notorious has hit the points I was thinking. Your start is to weak and you've a couple of quite complex ideas on coffee and shops that would come better from a better explained character

I'm going to keep at it over the next few weeks. I'm getting a lot of extra time off from work due to my employers being dicks. So being summer, I figure this is the time to really hit this full time.

Well done Natesean Bet you weren't expecting to pull after posting this, but you definitely seem to have taken Tony's fancy.

I had a scary experience at the Walnut Cafe. My girlfriend booked me a seat for last Friday night. But she has issues with her spelling and I had to do a standup routine instead.