http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com "Short, fairly funny" - Baltimore Sun Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:12:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My stint as an emcee at Magooby's last week was, now that it's done, really rather a lot of fun. Three of the four shows I did went really, really well. (Guess which one I got on tape? More on that in a minute.) I learned a lot: First ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2008/01/17/and-miles-to-go-before-i/ So, you know how when you go a long while without writing a blog post, you dread the inevitable return post where you have to acknowledge how long you've been gone?  And you put it off and put it off until you realize your blog has gone another two weeks ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2008/01/10/comedy-resolutions/ After a rough night at Topaz a couple of weeks ago and a piss-poor experience at another event, I was pretty relieved that last night's Topaz crowd was lively and actually interested in laughing at comedy.  (Seriously, who goes to a comedy show when they don't feel like laughing at anything? ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/11/02/my-boyfriend-so-blank/ I went out to catch the Geek Comedy Tour 3000 this weekend, as part of my efforts to catch more local talent when they're NOT doing an open mic. It was a really fun show- if you have the opportunity to catch these guys at a con or something, you ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/29/a-lid-for-every-pot/ I'm trying to decide between two bits for the competition tonight.  I can do the bit about the road trip through the Midwest, which has the advantage of being tried-and-true material that I'm very comfortable with.  Or I can do the bit about my husband's Pottery Barn addiction and his ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/25/there-can-be-only-one/ The flip side of making an effort to find the joke in everything is that occasionally, even though you don't consider yourself a particularly mean person, something will occur to you that is so mean-spirited, so completely undeserved, that you're instantly and deeply ashamed of yourself for even putting it together into a ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/24/you-dont-always-have-to-be-funny-you-know/ A universal truth of comedy: Every comic has bombed at one point or another.  Not every comic has bombed recently, but they've all done it, and they all, I guarantee you, vividly remember standing there, literally standing against a wall and in the spotlight, while a roomful of strangers they are being paid ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/19/the-truth-about-bombing/ Exciting times here in the land of part-time comedy. In addition to the Kz's House of Talent contest I'm doing next week (which you should totally come to), I've gone and gotten into another one. On November 29th, I'll be in the New Talent Night at Magooby's Joke ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/18/more-competition/ One of the great things about working on your jokes with other comedians is that it's a very safe environment to say almost anything you want. White people can try out racial jokes, men can try out jokes about women, people can use any kind of language they want, whatever. ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/16/the-free-speech-zone/ I'm a geek.  I've been geeky most of my life- in high school, while other kids were making out in the student lounge or playing hacky-sack out in the parking lot, I was hanging out with my geeky friends in the computer lab. As a result, I have a whole sack ... http://www.tiffanybridgecomedy.com/2007/10/15/jokes-i-cant-tell/