Well, I have learned of a lot of people canceling upcoming standup comedy shows in Lisbon because of the Coronavirus. I’m canceling my shows, people who have been working on solo performances for a while, are canceling theirs. Cancels are happening all over the place. And it’s really for the best. Like, think about it. You’re doing English comedy shows in Europe. Most of the people in the crowd are travelers or probably people who...
I was doing a show the other day, and there was this group of old people sitting right next to the “stage”, and I was picking on them a bit cause they were fun. There was the guy I was picking on quite a bit. Had to be damn near 70 years old or more. And I was like “nope”, but like, genuinely. Like he didn’t have a joke he could rift off the top...
This is all very dope. Like really. Have you read this blog? That’s fine. Most of it is garbage. But it does track going from barely having the opportunity to perform once a month, to hosting comedy nights, to co-running a well known comedy club, to putting on my own comedy events as a promoter. And guess what? They’re fun. People fucking like them. They come back again for some more of that shit. People...
So last year was fortunate for me in terms of opportunities that opened up. For comedy. For short film projects. I was able to travel to several cities in Portugal and perform stand up comedy in English. I became the host of several different English comedy nights. I had one of my jokes adapted into a short film. I got involved with a bunch of other short film projects. I don’t think a lot of...
So I started doing these comedy jams to help encourage English comedy in Lisbon, and they’re working! Comedians who used to only get five to ten minutes on the mic per show are getting way more time. Sometimes fifteen to thirty minutes at the last couple shows. People who performed at the first jam on a whim came back for the next one with prepared jokes. I’m seeing people spend time writing new jokes between...
Recently I went through the process of becoming a licensed comedy event promoter here in Lisbon, Portugal. I’m going to tell you how I became an officially registered promoter of events. I’m now authorized to put on Music, Dance, Karaoke, Theatre, Cinema, and, most importantly - comedy shows! First off, this is only going to work if you have a NIF. That is - Numero de Indentificacao Fiscal (NIF). This number is what connects you...
So what a fuckin year. Jesus. If you told me at the end of 2018 that I would become a stand-up comedian, and start hosting stand up comedy shows, and travel around Portugal to perform, and also start doing short films, and all the other crazy shit that happened. I would have asked to buy some of whatever the hell you were smoking. I mean, I still might ask that. It’s always good to have...
I did a couple more short films here in Lisbon. Again with Lee making all that film magic happen. He had a couple of ideas for shorts, and we finally set a day to try them out this past Monday. We filmed this much longer film that e wrote up a while back. And then he re-wrote it, then wrote it once again. Because me and Hussene, the other actor, kept picking apart the script....