Looking Forward to Comedy 2012
In 2007, I met a lot of great guys starting out in the Vancouver Comedy scene. We saw each other’s ambitions and supported each other’s raw talents in rooms like Zawa, Wired Bean, Myles of Bean, etc. In the four and half years since, our numbers dwindled. Some left comedy because they realized their talent couldn’t cash in the cheques their ambitions were writing. Others left out of sheer frustration of the process. And a few of us left because other priorities began to trump their comedic dreams. At the end of 2012, will I be the next to go?
I have never started a year with so much doubt regarding my future in comedy. When I started comedy in 2007, I had a good job and a great girlfriend. This year, I’m starting comedy with a great job and a great wife. I’m at a stage of my life where I have to decide between my boyhood dreams and more adult responsibilities.
This year, I have to do more to justify continuing the dream. There’s more to improving than more stage time and increased paid gigs. I have to challenge myself to be better in all aspects. I have to write better, perform better, interact with the audience better, and network with other comics better. I need to step up to every challenge that crosses my path whatever that may be.
If I don’t feel that I made myself into a significantly better comic at the end of 2012, I am done.
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