I'm a little surly this morning, I had to get out of bed early to do a radio interview for the comedy show I'm doing in Brockville on June 22. Do you have any idea how hard it is to be funny at 8:30 in the morning? At least I didn't have to get out of bed at 4 in the morning to drive to Mississauga to perform on the Q107 Derringer comedy contest only to lose to John Ki by one point. But I'm not bitter because I didn't have to put on pants for this interview. But it was fun. They didn't hurt me too much and I did 5 to 7 minutes with them and it flew by.

But what made this difficult to get out of bed for was that I had done a show in Buffalo last night. Kristen Becker runs a room at a place called Nietzsche's or however the hell you spell that. It's a cool little bar in the Allentown district of Buffalo and it's just a couple of blocks from Mecca, I mean the Anchor Bar, which is of course the home of the chicken wing.

I went down with Jason Blanchard and we hit the Anchor Bar for 20 hot wings. Okay, I had 20 hot and Blanchard the pussy had mild. What's the point of that? Mild wings. Come on!

Then we hit Nietzsche's. It is probably one of the coolest bars I've been to. It's kind of like the bar on cover of Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door album. If you don't know that album or worse, you don't know who Led Zeppelin is, you can't be my friend anymore. It's no Zeppelin IV, or even a Zeppelin II, but it's still a pretty solid effortand way better than 90% of the shit that passes for music today. I'm looking at you Nickelback and Maroon 5! But I digress.

The crowd was a bit on the small side, but they were attentive and seemed to like me. That's what it's all about. I'll sell my soul for a crowd to like me. I did a decent 13:56, which was well short of my allotted 15. I apologized profusely to Kristen for being way short, and she understood, but did warn me that I can't let it become a habit in her room. Blanchard went up and did a solid 20.

It was cool to have all the comics come up after and tell us that they really liked our stuff. That's quite a change from here when you get unwavering support from guys like Brian Hope who will come up to you after a set and say "That new bit was okay, but you know what it needs?? A punchline!!" Thanks for the tip asshole.

But all in all, I'd go back there in a second and hope to head down there again either later in the summer or early in the fall. I guess if nothing else it gives me the incentive I need to finally get off my ass and get my passport renewed.