A Bit Depressed and Respect

These days I am a bit depressed.

I am not respected in the comedy scene.  That's not entirely true.  But not by people who haven't seen me on stage (which since I'm not getting tons of stage time is alot).  But people who've seen me know that I'm good.  They actually know that I'm really good.

I'm really concerned about getting respect from people who don't even bother to see me before they disrespect which is crazy.  

But I can still feel the disrespect.  

I think the worst thing about how I feel right now is that I expected to get into New York Comedy Club.  I really expected it.  I worked really hard.  I did everything I was supposed to.  I generally was a good guy.  I really was.  But there is some ugly rumor out there about me that is kind of crushing my dreams and nobody will let me know what it is.  And I know it's hurting me.  And I know it stole NYCC's late nights from me.  And it hurts.  Because it shouldn't have.

I guess this is the most hurtful thing.  Because I thought I earned it.

But I don't think that's a great reason to be sad.  

Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy both came through the Comic Strip.  I think the best thing I can do is work really hard and get passed there.  It's a good club and I have friends there.  And it's not as clique-y.  And I'm friends with people there.  And it's got a great pedigree.  And it's in my neighborhood.  Which is pretty great.  And they don't have Roast Battles.  

I think I can do well there.

So I'll focus on that.  

Also there is some good news!  I'm (we're) almost done with our TV pilot. PB&J Comedy.  So that's huge. It makes me laugh alot so that's good.  (:D !!!!)  I think it's really great!   

What else?  I'm working on this ECS website and I think it's finally really coming together.  I really think it is.  That just might get me into the Lantern for a couple of nights a week.  Which would be good.  I'd be happy with 2-3 nights a week.  That'd be dope.

Maybe one night a week on Allan's show.  That'd be cool too.  But we'll see.

So to summarize:

TV Pilot
Everycomedyshow.com (coming soon)
The Comic Strip (hopefully)

All by the end of January/February.  Not too shabby.  Not at all.  Just keep working.

I want that new time about my childhood soon.  I have to start working on it.  After this site is up.

Comedy and Continuous Learning

Not a very inspiring title right now.  But here's where we are.

As far as comedy goes I have to come up with some new jokes:

Set jokes:

Set up - 40 sec.  - 3 too long
Starter - 3 Joke
Disposable Income - 1 Joke
Detroit/Germany ...
  -- Detroit Joke -- 1 Joke/ Harmonica Meth Joke - 2 (Test this tonight.  Try to combine it)
  -- Germany Joke - 3
Sanford and Son - 2 Joke
L. Ron Hubbard - 3 Joke (We'll see - Only a One check joke)

In order to do this correctly I'll have to kick up the Disposable Income Joke and the Detroit Joke.  That'll get this set to completion.

Continuous Learning:

This is my real dilemma.

I have this thing I do where I take a long time to do things.  For instance, right now I have enough to actually work through some Equilend specific projects but I want to finish this Intro to ML and complete the task.  I also want to complete the Coursera course that allows me to learn about the math behind ML.   So this is my ideal path of learning.

• Finish Intro to ML
• Coursera: Math behind ML
• FB - PyTorch
• Deep Learning (Udacity)

However, to do this it would be the middle of next year (June) before I actually get to do something and create some work product.

Reasonably I could do this:

• Finish Intro to ML
• Put together Trade Probability Project ($$$)
• Put together Rejected Trades Project ($$$)
• Put together Tiered Trade Project ($$$)
• Coursera: Math behind ML 
• Deep Learning (Udacity) 

Looking at it in this way this seems to be the more sensible path and so this is what I'll do.

Ok.  Sounds good.  

So today's play is:

1. Rewrite Jokes
2. Work through Text Learning 

Next Moves

This post is exploratory.  Originally I named it comedy and technology.  But even I am not sure where it is going right now.

Here's my current situation.  

I now have 13 minutes of tight comedy.  I have two more minutes I think are tight and two minutes I have to develop.  That basically gives me 17 minutes of jokes.  Maybe 18.  That's a lot.  

To be honest I didn't realize I had that kind of time until the other day when I ran some old jokes I wrote and they worked like hell.  :D  Now I'm in a place where I've progressed faster than I expected.

So what do I do next?

First, I think it's time to re-audition at Broadway Comedy Club.  Doing that will give me two things:  

1.  Regular spots -- I need some regular spots where I can perfect this material in front of real audiences from all across America.

2.  Exposure -- It's time to get out there a bit and just put myself out there and let people see my work.

3.  Respect -- I'm always very big on this and this should result in more shows.

Second, mics.  Keep doing mics.  

Right now it is late March.  Let's just say April.  By the end of April I should have a solid 17-20 minutes of jokes.

That gives me 7 more months to develop new material.    If I develop a tight five minutes every 3 months (reasonable)