So this past Friday was AWESOME. I hosted the very first English comedy jam in the history of Lisbon! Well, I mean, I don’t know that for sure. But considering English comedy didn’t even really exist more than a year ago, I’m gonna say it’s safe to call dibs on the title. We did the show at 86 Cocktail bar, which was a small cozy venue to do something like this. The show lasted three...
yoooooooooo what a crazy fucking week. I did three shows. One, nobody showed up to lol. No one. Seriously - ouch. One was a trip to my first English comedy show in Coimbra. We lit it up! And then back to Lisbon for the biggest crowd as Cais a Rir English comedy night. Time to rest? Nope. I’ve been going to a lot more Portuguese comedy nights. There’s so many now. I rehearsed for two...
I have a lot of fun doing stand up comedy in Lisbon despite all the challenges that have come with it. The opportunities still aren’t very often, and it’s a huge uphill battle to change that. I’m trying to help and encourage as many people as I can to start English nights. There’s a whole new generation of Portuguese comedians out here hustling to put on shows. And they’re doing great. They’re killing it. I’ve...
BOOOM yooooooo, let me tell you something about stand up comedy. this. shit. is. so. much. fuckin. fun. full. stop. period. I mean, yes, it’s stressful in a lot of ways. But my last four shows motivated me so much. I’ll throw a quick recap of them in a second. I’m probably not going to write too much about individual shows going forward. They’re not that uncommon anymore. There’s a lot of groups doing stand...
This is a bit late but I’m so busy now it’s hard to keep up writing about all the comedy stuff happening. It was a lot easier when there was one show a month but damn those days are loooong gone. I spent a week in Porto to do three shows up in the north thanks to Adam. The return of O Zebras comedy shows in Lisbon. And there’s a new show in town! And...
What a dope fucking week holy shit. I did stand up comedy at a private event in Lisbon. I traveled up to Porto with another American comedian. I won a fiba 3x3 basketball competition. But that’s just like a cherry on top of the comedy sundae I had this past week. The private event was soooooo random. I got an email from some dude who said he’d be interested in having a comedian at his...
The past two weeks were fun. I did four stand-up comedy shows in two weeks. I’m pretty sure that’s the most I’ve done in such a short span of time. Covering back to back days each week. I hosted one of the o.zebras shows. Did some “shitty” comedy with Lisbon Comedy. Then the next week I traveled to Porto to do my second comedy show up there. Then ran back to Lisbon the next day...
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. So I didn’t make it to the show in Porto on the 16th. Damn it damn it damn it. Why didn’t I make it? I had a panic attack on the train and hopped off before it left the station. Now you might be thinking - oh no, things must be pretty bad! Nope. Quite the opposite. Things are great. Things have never been better. But you can have too many good things happen,...