On Sunday, April 4, 2010, I performed Stand Up Comedy for the first time in my life. It was a very interesting experience to say the least. Performing at Improv Boston, located in Central Square, it was a contest for $1000, paid for my the movie Death At a Funeral. The contest called for comics with a limited amount of experience, to write jokes about families and funerals. Funerals, the best topics to write about. People asked me about the fear element of doing stand up; being able to get in front of a crowd and tell jokes. It was not actually that element that scared me, it was the bright lights in my face that were a killer. Once I got as accustomed to them as I could, the rest of the show went fine. The worst word to say is "can't" because that means you believe it is impossible to perform a certain action. I just said that I would give this show my all and that is as much as I could do. I did not win the contest but the crowd loved it, including a judge who was in disbelief that this was my first time doing stand up. It was defiantly a lot of fun, and that is all that matters.
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