INTERMISSION

Sometimes, non comedy-club venues will ask to do an intermission in the middle of the show. Comedians notoriously hate the intermission. The whole point of the opening acts is to build momentum before the headliner and keep it moving forward. Its building the the finale; the headliner.  In intermission is the opposite.  It brings the show to a grinding halt.  

I was able to successfully put an end to that on most shows where I have produced or headlined but recently, there was no way to avoid it.  I was headlining a club and the venue needed to make money from drink sales at intermission since the headliner (me) did not sell out the show.  I understood but was very worried about it.

Ironically, it made the show better. The whole show had started early so many people didn't have time to get drinks before the show or enough drinks to find me and the other comedians very "out loud" funny.  After the 10 minute intermission, they had time to get drinks and use the bathroom and they were 100x better than they were before the intermission. Some of that was me, maybe because I was the headliner but I guess the morale of the story is that sometimes you will like something you are against. Or that intermissions are okay.  #greeneggs #standup #comedyshow #laughs #formerlawyer

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