Writing Session

My stand-up writing sessions are often during quick breaks or phone conversations with my brother Dan. I've got a series of topics written out, including overexplaining movies and an actual event that happened during the conversation in which my brother threw up a baseball, it hit a ceiling fan, and crashed onto his crotch. Comedy.

Also wrote a relatively short bit which, looking at it now, doesn't seem that funny. Anyway, I thought for the sake of content, I'd post it here.

Er-hem.

"I was a fat kid. I'm still pretty big, but I lost a lot of weight. The weird thing about losing weight is you suddenly find out what people really thought about how you used to look. Because when you're fat, your friends, your family, they're all nice about it. 'No, you're not fat. You look good, your weight suits you. You're handsome. Yeah'

"You lose weight, and suddenly everyone starts revealing what they really thought. It's like 'Oh my God, you look so good. Jesus, you used to look awful. I mean you looked like the result of the Michelin Man fucking the bad guy from Ghostbusters.' Got friends who are like 'We used to think you were a chick! We knew you had self-esteem problems; we were kind of hoping you'd get drunk sometime and blow us. Thank god it didn't turn out that way.'"

Yeah. I think it needs work, too.