All genres of talent are welcome at Houndtooth, though chiefly they have musicians performing. It has been a while since I performed at a room that was more than comedy only. Musicians get three songs or 15 minutes, while comedians get 10 minutes. There are no language restrictions. Signup is dropping your name in a hat before 6:30pm, and then the host, Dave, draws names and you tell him where in the lineup you want to go. My name was drawn early, so I took the second spot. The room has been going on for two and a half years. Houndtooth has its own parking lot. The stage is a triangular, platform stage to one corner. Three mics are set up, and there is one stool. The business seats about 56 to 60 who can see the talent fine. The business is a pub, so you have plenty of comfort food choices, as well as a full bar. The mic started promptly at 7pm. Dave announces from a second, cordless mic who is up next. A number of TVs throughout the business were on but muted, and the one TV closest to the stage was turned off before the mic began. Houndtooth has a couple of pool tables, but thankfully, no one played pool the night I was there. I counted 19 people in the room at 7:20pm. I came to realize I was the only comedian in the lineup, so infrequently do they get standup. Everyone else was a musician. Some of them took advantage of the piano on stage. The room goes to 10pm, but it can last as late as 11pm in the summer if there are enough signups. If there are not a lot of signups, talent may go up a second time. I was offered a second time but declined. While I did well when I was on stage, I did not have enough material to do another ten that night. Guys, this is a good room to do. Ten minutes is a consequential amount of stage time, and playing to a roomful of non-comics is great. Dave is an affable host, and the room looked forward to seeing me when they learned I was there to do standup. I’m amazed comedians in Eugene -- which has its own comedy club -- don’t do this room, only the rooms for standup only. I would think playing to a general audience is better than only fellow comedians, and ten minutes of stage time is wonderful, when you’re building your set from a solid three to five to eight to ten and more.
All genres of talent are welcome at Houndtooth, though chiefly they have musicians performing. It has been a while since I performed at a room that was more than comedy only. Musicians get three songs or 15 minutes, while comedians get 10 minutes. There are no language restrictions. Signup is dropping your name in a hat before 6:30pm, and then the host, Dave, draws names and you tell him where in the lineup you want to go. My name was drawn early, so I took the second spot. The room has been going on for two and a half years. Houndtooth has its own parking lot.
ReplyDeleteThe stage is a triangular, platform stage to one corner. Three mics are set up, and there is one stool. The business seats about 56 to 60 who can see the talent fine. The business is a pub, so you have plenty of comfort food choices, as well as a full bar.
The mic started promptly at 7pm. Dave announces from a second, cordless mic who is up next. A number of TVs throughout the business were on but muted, and the one TV closest to the stage was turned off before the mic began. Houndtooth has a couple of pool tables, but thankfully, no one played pool the night I was there. I counted 19 people in the room at 7:20pm. I came to realize I was the only comedian in the lineup, so infrequently do they get standup. Everyone else was a musician. Some of them took advantage of the piano on stage. The room goes to 10pm, but it can last as late as 11pm in the summer if there are enough signups. If there are not a lot of signups, talent may go up a second time. I was offered a second time but declined. While I did well when I was on stage, I did not have enough material to do another ten that night.
Guys, this is a good room to do. Ten minutes is a consequential amount of stage time, and playing to a roomful of non-comics is great. Dave is an affable host, and the room looked forward to seeing me when they learned I was there to do standup. I’m amazed comedians in Eugene -- which has its own comedy club -- don’t do this room, only the rooms for standup only. I would think playing to a general audience is better than only fellow comedians, and ten minutes of stage time is wonderful, when you’re building your set from a solid three to five to eight to ten and more.