It’s not funny, it’s just… Horrible. Elitist, classist, sexist, just… Rank. Heckling (by some autistic bloke who actually works here), and just… So bad.
I got convinced to go to this thing. It’s like, as local as you could get, for me, but yeah…
Dunno if comedy is like this where you live, but man, in this “hipster bar”, dear god there is no way this was worth the cover charge.
Eugh…
Most open mic nights are people trying to figure out delivery. Example: I was missing my ex girlfriend the other day, so I decided to head to her place and have a chat. There were some people who told me to let it go, and I was creepy, but that didn't stop me. I grabbed my shovel and marched to the graveyard...
Most beginners can't tell this joke correctly. They get the gasp, but not the laugh. It takes work.
Add in ego, and trying to look cool, you have several bad jokes with awful delivery. Then you get two or three funny guys, and 3-4 guys starting to get it.
My first open mic night I got heckled. I got the best laughs from responding to the guy.
One of the guys, who hosts local breakfast radio, did a version of fucking Bohemian Rhapsody, sung, slagging off local towns and suburbs…
He also did Psy’s “Gangnam Style”, but as “Grandma Style”. That one I thought was quite funny, albeit… Those were his only “jokes”. Even the MC thought it was shit, ahaha…
Somehow, it got much, much worse from there…
These weren’t “beginners”, though, I’m told. “Professional comedians”… Hence the cover charge.
Which somehow makes the joke by one of the comediennes about literally smearing shit all over her “boyfriend’s” house (vaguely a bit like your girlfriend joke) so much worse, lol…
On heckling… I guess it wasn’t so much the heckling or “calling out of it” that I had a problem with, but more… The fact that “the heckler” clearly worked there…
He’s the one who took my money on the door, lol.
Initially I thought he was a plant, or part of the act, until the girl who organized the actual night (also painfully unfunny), who was MC’ing, came and basically dragged him away from the front row, because he was such a screechingly autistic embarrassment…
If your staff get drunk and act so embarrassingly that they almost get dragged away by security (massive burly security guard was doing sound, side of stage, bizarrely)..? I’m not sure that’s a great look, at least from a venue… Perspective, lol.
Cries in I hate this fucking place, ahaha
That sucks.
So, because I'm over six feet tall I have been mixed up with the bouncer. This was even by the owner. Best deal ever, they have no way to kick me out.