Come out to Nutt Street at 255 North Front Street. Show starts at 9 pm and its FREE! You will get to see 20+ comics great drink specials. If you want to perform show up at 8 pm sharp for sign ups (spots go fast).

Here is a little article written by one of our open micer’s for what you should expect as a first time performer or audience member:

Tips for Your First Open Mic as a Performer

1) Write out your routine ahead of time. Do not think that you are just going to get up there and riff on that thing that happened to you at the bus stop the other day. You will get up there and be completely unable to think or formulate new thoughts. Even if you do manage to get through without looking at your notes, knowing they are there is extremely comforting. You will require comfort.

2) Be prepared to fail. Most of your jokes will not go well. Coming up with a solid routine that you can count on for laughs takes time, and a significant amount of discarded ideas. Comedy is like feeding your blood to a monster, you going to have to keep bleeding and bleeding until it’s full and finally throws up on you, and that’s a laugh break.

3) Be aware that making fun of yourself in bed will not necessarily lead to you getting laid more, but it’s a way more successful strategy than making fun of other people in bed.

4) Don’t get too drunk. They can tell. Just get drunk enough. Like if you were on a date. You’re on a date with an entire room of people, and they may want to sleep with you and you don’t want to have to write them a facebook message the next morning apologizing and explaining “that’s the first time it’s ever happened”.

5) Try to be yourself with your material. No one is interested in you dumbing down your weirdness because you think people won’t get it. Or trying to be weird when actually you’re quite normal. The audience is not dumb, and if you try to write to your audience instead of for yourself, they can tell and will turn against you. Your actual personality is your strength. If it’s not your strength, then you may be a boring person who shouldn’t be doing this in the first place, I guess.

6) Wear deodorant. For gods sakes.

7) Be on time to sign-up, because it isn’t your inalienable right to get up there, someone is letting you do that.

8) Be friendly and introduce yourself to everyone you possibly can. You may need rides to other open mics later.

9) Keep the mic close to your mouth. Make out with the mike.

10) When it’s over, even if no one laughed, and someone yelled at you, and you can feel the hatred of the entire room pulsing over you like a dark cloud, be really really proud of yourself.

Tips for Your First Open Mic as an Audience Member

1) drink – you will like it more if you do, promise

2) laugh – no one can hear you smiling

3) Don’t heckle the comics or they might start crying

4) Come back – it’s different every time. Sometimes there’s blood, and sometimes there’s rainbows, but no one ever knows.

5) Bring a friend, especially if you want to sleep with them, ‘cause really there’s so much drinking and people humiliating themselves is a natural aphrodisiac.

– Bridget Callahan

Bridget Callahan just recently started doing standup herself, and has gone up like 6 times now, so of course she’s definitely an expert. No, but seriously, this is all true. You can see her prove it at Nutt St. on Thursdays and Browncoat Theater’s Sunday night mic. She writes at www.bridgetcallahan.com, where you can currently read about politics, bad shows from the 90s, and how she sexts when she’s drunk.

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