The New Orleans Comedy Arts Festival Closing Thoughts
I know I was supposed to write this yesterday, but I spent the entire day exploring the city.
The festival is now over. The roast of local comedian Bill Dykes came and went, although I didn't attend it because I only met Bill at the start of the festival and didn't spend enough time with him on or off stage to feel comfortable hearing him jovially lambasted for this or that. Zach tells me it went well and I will take his word for it.
The festival itself was an amazing success. As Adam Newman has pointed out elsewhere, Wednesday was a little difficult and then the festival rocketed away from there. It was good to meet a lot of the L.A., New Orleans, and Austin guys, although I wish I had been a tad more social. It's simply in my nature to hit museums and aquariums rather than drink. I know that's a bit geeky but where there's a jellyfish tank, I will be there.
The La Nuit Theater is a really neat little place unlike what you find in New York. Although it's about the size and seating capacity of Rififi, it feels a lot more open. Almost like you had brought chairs into and built a stage in your parents' living room. This might just feel that way because the walls are freshly painted, but it made the whole room extremely comfortable.
And I've got to say, entering from a back door leading to an apartment building stairwell was the sauce on my spaghetti.
I am looking forward to being back home in New York, however. I've missed my friends and I wonder how Writers Room went without me panicking and running around in terrified circles. Yes, the circles are terrified. According to Jon Clarke's blog, however, it went extraordinarily well. Which does, then, make me think I'm the one who keeps these things from progressing.
I'm also oddly looking forward to being back at my job. I'm lucky enough where, at the moment, I have a job in which my bosses require my knowledge about video games to do their job. It's a job I don't want to lose since, next to comedy, playing video games is what I do.
So this is the end of the New Orleans Comedy Arts Festival. Thanks to Sean Patton for throwing this thing together and bringing us dorks into the ring to make a new audience laugh.
The festival is now over. The roast of local comedian Bill Dykes came and went, although I didn't attend it because I only met Bill at the start of the festival and didn't spend enough time with him on or off stage to feel comfortable hearing him jovially lambasted for this or that. Zach tells me it went well and I will take his word for it.
The festival itself was an amazing success. As Adam Newman has pointed out elsewhere, Wednesday was a little difficult and then the festival rocketed away from there. It was good to meet a lot of the L.A., New Orleans, and Austin guys, although I wish I had been a tad more social. It's simply in my nature to hit museums and aquariums rather than drink. I know that's a bit geeky but where there's a jellyfish tank, I will be there.
The La Nuit Theater is a really neat little place unlike what you find in New York. Although it's about the size and seating capacity of Rififi, it feels a lot more open. Almost like you had brought chairs into and built a stage in your parents' living room. This might just feel that way because the walls are freshly painted, but it made the whole room extremely comfortable.
And I've got to say, entering from a back door leading to an apartment building stairwell was the sauce on my spaghetti.
I am looking forward to being back home in New York, however. I've missed my friends and I wonder how Writers Room went without me panicking and running around in terrified circles. Yes, the circles are terrified. According to Jon Clarke's blog, however, it went extraordinarily well. Which does, then, make me think I'm the one who keeps these things from progressing.
I'm also oddly looking forward to being back at my job. I'm lucky enough where, at the moment, I have a job in which my bosses require my knowledge about video games to do their job. It's a job I don't want to lose since, next to comedy, playing video games is what I do.
So this is the end of the New Orleans Comedy Arts Festival. Thanks to Sean Patton for throwing this thing together and bringing us dorks into the ring to make a new audience laugh.
posted by Mike Drucker at
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