It's now almost May and I still haven't gigged since moving to London. This is not good.
The problem has been that I got bored of the jokes I was doing, and threw out my entire set to write something new and different. Trouble is, the stuff I wrote - when I actually managed to write - was not very good and too much of a departure from my one-liner style.
The other problems was that the genre I was working in - wordplay jokes - was littered with people writing the same jokes as me, at least in cyberspace. That depressed me a little bit and I got bored of writing these gags. I need to be a bit different and original in the comedy world, otherwise what's the point?
After much soul-searching, and veering between giving up stand-up comedy altogether and back, I've decided to continue with the one-liners. But I'm just going to work hard to write better ones. Cut out the bad puns (not that I had many), rely less on easy wordplay material and save the really good jokes for my set instead of wasting them on Twitter and Facebook.
That's the plan. Now I've just got to write, memorise and rehearse about fifty gags and I'm ready to get up on stage again.
Wish me luck...
