OK
I've finally gained some distance from my untimely demise last week on stage. Now I have a chance to get back on the horse and prove to myself that I'm actually good enough to actually do this. I got a lot of flack for being dirty last time and tried to clean up the material a bit.
I have two shows coming up as well as a MC gig on Saturday night, not really my favourite but I need to get back on stage sooner rather that later. I have an MC gig for the Big green VIP party on Friday and finally the HSS cultural show on Saturday.
I've been going through my jokes and I've realised that I'm not the comedian I would like to be. My boy Tyson Ngubeni has the ability to make an audience laugh without swearing or going into blue territory. Something that's actually very difficult to do.
I don't.
My sense of humour is is much darker, my outlook on life much more pessimistic. This actually irritated me a bit. Clean comedians can basically go unto any stage and have a good reception, when you start swearing and you talk about the killings in Norway and Hurricanes and stuff you have to have the right audience who realise the comedic distance between you and the material.
Only a fool would believe I actually believe my material on-stage. Unfortunately a lot of people don't recognise that type of comedic distance. In part that's why my new stuff is much darker and much rawer, I need to prove to people that I'm further removed from my material than i currently am. Perhaps the only way to do that is to stop trying to sit on the fence of decency and political correctness and just fall over unto the other side.
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