Standup Comedy!?

Ok. So I’m not funny in my personal opinion. I’m goofy. And stupid. And a bit of an idiot. But I drink (and rather like to do so) and play shitty piano. All of that… could be a good mix?!

I dunno.

But I’ll be honest. I’ve truly, very seriously considered doing something related to standup comedy but don’t think I could do it in like a formal setting. I couldn’t charge people specifically to come watch/hear me make a fool of myself. Specially since my friends and family get to see that for free all the time and they’re probably the only people who would “support” me in that way.

What I would love to attempt to pull off is owning a bar but have it be a piano/comedy bar. I’m way funnier when I’m at the piano making fun of myself (or others) with music. I even made this dude I know (who hates cursing and says I’m like a sailor) die laughing because I improved a song about the almost ruined banana bread I was making. I don’t even really remember how the song went, I just know it was in a minor key with a rather pounding base line revolving around the sorrow that was my dying banana bread. With a random “FUCK” in the middle of it.

So here’s the plan (that will more than likely never be implemented based on the fact that I have no real goals and don’t plan on starting to have them): I open a bar. Here in Albuquerque. With my best friend. We’ll get drunk fairly often, have an awesome time, have a stage with a piano and a mic or five. Maybe two pianos. And when we’re a popular bar (which can’t be too hard because there is nothing like this here so I have a niche market), we’ll start hiring real comedians and musicians and be rich and famous in this town. It sounds like a good plan, right?

Now I just gotta decide how to fund this situation and keep my day job but we tipsy by about 6 at night. I don’t know that the last part could be too hard to accomplish. I could get tipsy by 6 after a full work day.