You know, the drink prices are absurd, there's hardly ever an actual crowd, and a lot of people leave once they are done - but - You can always get time there, it's early enough you can easily do another set somewhere else, and it's air-conditioned. it is what it is.
Oh great, another shitty open mic that will make me regret that I stopped doing heroine and keep replaying in my head what my High School counselor said when I told him I wanted to be in "the arts", he suggested the "industrial" (metal shop, specifically). Being a comedian is more depressing than being a porto-let at a chili cook off in Phoenix. Oh god, I want to kill myself after these open mics. I hate my parents, I hate having to do my art in shitty bars in front of other comedians. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I would rather be an African dung beetle than a fucking open mic comic. Shit, I'm going to this open mic to commit hari kari and vomit out all of my aggression on the rest of the pathetic losers there. And i have to buy a 9 dollar diet coke because I don't drink alcohol. Fuck this shit, I am going to a temp agency and gwetting a job handing out samples of Dove hand crean that I know half of the men who accept it will be using it to jack-off with. Fuck, fuck, fuck!
i went to the club at 5:30pm today. the door was closed. Other comics came, and we waited until 6:15ish. A bartender arrived and said the open mic was just cancelled. no apology, nothing.
the last time i did my set there, nobody was listening. the host was incredibly unfunny. he put his friends on first, not caring about the order on the sign-up sheet.
The crowd varies, sometimes there will only be a few people, other times there will be quite a lot. EastVille has a lot of regulars who all know each other but they seem friendly enough.
I've gone to this mic enough to know that it's a dead room. Comics leave after their sets, and the 1 drink minimum quantifies the loss after a pin-drop silence 2 hour show. It's a stage though, and you get to hear your own voice. Not worth a minimum 5 dollar soda.
The mic is rushed to begin at 6 and end at 7. The host still does time, and riffs once in a while between sets. Signup does not begin at 530, They tape a sheet up to the window and people can sign up whenever they please (Most sign up between 2-4 as they leave work/school). The mic is only do the first 12-13 people, but they allow more people to sign up in case people drop out. If they don't drop out, tough, they still make you pay $5 for a "spot", and the host won't tell you if you're not going up. Not worth the time.
Sorry, but I cannot recommend the Friday open mic at EastVille, which I've done several times. Just 4 minutes; most comics leave after performing; no energy in room.
You know when I was in LA. People said watch out for the Laughing Buddha scam in New York City. Tonight I went to what is billed as the only comedy club in Brooklyn Eastville comedy club and it is certainly not the only comedy club in Brooklyn but yet it's not even a comedy club. It is run by various clicks of semi failed comedians who wind up getting you for about 20 bucks between drink minimum and paying $8 for the privilege of having your name drawn randomly from a bucket Bush League bulshit. But their unprofessionalism even goes deeper. Tonight my first experience with them involuntarily for I thought I was just going to the Eastville Comedy Club open mic. No no no after you buy your minimum Here Comes The Laughing Buddha motherfuker and he going to charge you $8 so you can go in and watch his half-ass Comics make an adopted Asian girl who has probably been through more in her life then any of these douchebags will ever experience, to tears. And kept out of her with no laugh to the degree she had to leave. I asked if I could have my money back because I wasn't going to perform in such a place. No no they already had it and you're f***** and you're going up and you're going to get intro'd really shity because you ask for your money back. And they have a quite liable quote from Janeane Garofalo on their website. Janine knows well these Hustler douchebags and she would never put up with the Laughing Buddha hack ass mother f****** who can't even be professional enough to keep 2 the basic rule of Comedy Ypu don't pick on people for things they can't help. Everything else is fair game. That's freedom of speech. Picking on a literal Refugee girl lucky enough to find some happiness to the degree she runs out in tears and the host doesn't even get it on to the comic. That's the big Ginger motherfuker. That many motherfukers make the Laughing Buddha everything you have heard. Absolutely unprofessional and just the comedic equivalent of a friend guy who charges you five bucks to get you a nickel bag. As far as they're quotes of success. Trust me Janeane Garofalo would never say anything good about laughing Buddha. I know Janine and I'll be letting her know that these mother f****** have her made-up quotes on their bulshit page. Avoid avoid avoid. And remember real comedy clubs do not charge you to perform.
How the hell does this dump Eastville stay in business?
ReplyDeleteYou know, the drink prices are absurd, there's hardly ever an actual crowd, and a lot of people leave once they are done - but - You can always get time there, it's early enough you can easily do another set somewhere else, and it's air-conditioned. it is what it is.
ReplyDeleteOh great, another shitty open mic that will make me regret that I stopped doing heroine and keep replaying in my head what my High School counselor said when I told him I wanted to be in "the arts", he suggested the "industrial" (metal shop, specifically). Being a comedian is more depressing than being a porto-let at a chili cook off in Phoenix. Oh god, I want to kill myself after these open mics. I hate my parents, I hate having to do my art in shitty bars in front of other comedians. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I would rather be an African dung beetle than a fucking open mic comic. Shit, I'm going to this open mic to commit hari kari and vomit out all of my aggression on the rest of the pathetic losers there. And i have to buy a 9 dollar diet coke because I don't drink alcohol. Fuck this shit, I am going to a temp agency and gwetting a job handing out samples of Dove hand crean that I know half of the men who accept it will be using it to jack-off with. Fuck, fuck, fuck!
ReplyDeleteI don't normally advocate suicide, but I don't think it would be a bad idea "Anonymous".
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want people saying you took the easy way out... use a cheese-grater.
^hahahahaha
ReplyDeletei went to the club at 5:30pm today. the door was closed. Other comics came, and we waited until 6:15ish. A bartender arrived and said the open mic was just cancelled. no apology, nothing.
ReplyDeletethe last time i did my set there, nobody was listening. the host was incredibly unfunny. he put his friends on first, not caring about the order on the sign-up sheet.
this is one of the worst mics in the city.
The owner is a former boxer who apparently took too many upper cuts. He's a total dick.
ReplyDeleteYes, he is a true shithead: aggressive and rude.
ReplyDeleteThe host is good, nice and supportive.
ReplyDeleteThe crowd varies, sometimes there will only be a few people, other times there will be quite a lot.
EastVille has a lot of regulars who all know each other but they seem friendly enough.
I've gone to this mic enough to know that it's a dead room. Comics leave after their sets, and the 1 drink minimum quantifies the loss after a pin-drop silence 2 hour show. It's a stage though, and you get to hear your own voice. Not worth a minimum 5 dollar soda.
ReplyDeleteThe mic is rushed to begin at 6 and end at 7. The host still does time, and riffs once in a while between sets. Signup does not begin at 530, They tape a sheet up to the window and people can sign up whenever they please (Most sign up between 2-4 as they leave work/school). The mic is only do the first 12-13 people, but they allow more people to sign up in case people drop out. If they don't drop out, tough, they still make you pay $5 for a "spot", and the host won't tell you if you're not going up. Not worth the time.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I cannot recommend the Friday open mic at EastVille, which I've done several times. Just 4 minutes; most comics leave after performing; no energy in room.
ReplyDeleteYou know when I was in LA. People said watch out for the Laughing Buddha scam in New York City. Tonight I went to what is billed as the only comedy club in Brooklyn Eastville comedy club and it is certainly not the only comedy club in Brooklyn but yet it's not even a comedy club. It is run by various clicks of semi failed comedians who wind up getting you for about 20 bucks between drink minimum and paying $8 for the privilege of having your name drawn randomly from a bucket
ReplyDeleteBush League bulshit.
But their unprofessionalism even goes deeper.
Tonight my first experience with them involuntarily for I thought I was just going to the Eastville Comedy Club open mic. No no no after you buy your minimum Here Comes The Laughing Buddha motherfuker and he going to charge you $8 so you can go in and watch his half-ass Comics make an adopted Asian girl who has probably been through more in her life then any of these douchebags will ever experience, to tears. And kept out of her with no laugh to the degree she had to leave.
I asked if I could have my money back because I wasn't going to perform in such a place.
No no they already had it and you're f***** and you're going up and you're going to get intro'd really shity because you ask for your money back. And they have a quite liable quote from Janeane Garofalo on their website. Janine knows well these Hustler douchebags and she would never put up with the Laughing Buddha hack ass mother f****** who can't even be professional enough to keep 2 the basic rule of Comedy
Ypu don't pick on people for things they can't help. Everything else is fair game. That's freedom of speech. Picking on a literal Refugee girl lucky enough to find some happiness to the degree she runs out in tears and the host doesn't even get it on to the comic.
That's the big Ginger motherfuker. That many motherfukers make the Laughing Buddha everything you have heard. Absolutely unprofessional and just the comedic equivalent of a friend guy who charges you five bucks to get you a nickel bag.
As far as they're quotes of success. Trust me Janeane Garofalo would never say anything good about laughing Buddha. I know Janine and I'll be letting her know that these mother f****** have her made-up quotes on their bulshit page. Avoid avoid avoid. And remember real comedy clubs do not charge you to perform.