Asim in beardland

I was at the So You Think You’re Funny (SYTYF)  Glasgow Heats, it was a good evening! Some really fantastic acts, special mad props are being thrown out to Sarah Cassidy for being fabulous tonight, my favourite act of the evening.  She was fantastic tonight, the last time I saw her gig was in March, and she’s come along leaps and bounds since. Absolutely brilliant, some really strong new material, she’ll only continue to grow and grow!

Everyone else was pretty damn good too, too many folk to name and individually give praise to, but on the whole a very good evening!  I never applied to do this competition, probably a good thing too, I wouldn’t want to compete against any of the folk that were on tonight, they were that good.

On that note, stand up competitions are a bit of a white elephant for me anyway, I don’t really want to do them, a number of comedians asked me why I hadn’t entered SYTYF, to save myself from the a number of “oh you should have you’d have done…” conversations I just told them, I missed the deadline that I’ll do it next year. Which for me is a big ass lie, I doubt I’m going to do it next year.

I somewhat fearful of being having my stand up critiqued, especially when I’m against my peers and people I’d consider friends. I’m critical enough of my performances, even the good ones,  I still hate myself and my act afterwards.

I was Ross Main, another fabulous comedian who also did absolutely amazing tonight -probably my second favourite of the evening-, that talked me into applying for  Take the Mic, using the line “what have you got to lose?”, now in the post apocalyptic world of take the mic, I tell you Ross what I have lost, my self respect, my pride and of course my will to live, thanks Ross, but to be fair to you, I never had much of the aforementioned anyway =)

Competitions are very daunting, and I don’t have the guts to do any more right now, rejection is scary, especially early on in a comedy career but, I’ve got a damn load of respect for those comedians that do and are willing to put themselves up to that kind of external scrutiny.

Anyway, fingers crossed its one of my peeps wins SYTYF, and that way I can ride their coat tails into gigs!

Finally onto a small matter of housekeeping now, i’d like to thank whoever it was, who visited the site for 14 minutes yesterday you were probably a bot, but, you pushed my site visitor stats to a new high, over 1000 visitors a week! Lets hope you’re not all bots.

In the meantime, writing my new material for the halt on Tuesday, should be epic, I’m on with 2 really good friends, the afore mentioned Ross Main, an old Friend that I known since way before either of us did Stand up, Daniel Webster and, 2 other veterans from Take the Mic Glasgow finals, including the winner, all in all, should be a good night!

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