• Had the pleasure of performing on Brendan Busee and Ron Raganella’s show ‘Shame” at QED last Friday. It was freezing cold and I don’t know how they did it but they packed the place. It was one of those perfect shows where the crowd is super into it and everything lands. Rufat Agayev and Danny Stratton did new jokes that blew my mind and Jordan Scott Hugginsclosed his set by chugging wine. Couldn’t have asked for a better experience.
• Got the opportunity to host James Hamilton's mic at the Creek last Friday. Learned a few secrets (they’re mundane but interesting to me) about hosting mics at the Creek and if you see me in person, I’ll be happy to share.
• Paul Schissler and co. do such a good job running ComedyWire. It’s the best secret in comedy for joke writing practice. The stakes are much lower than Facebook (your family/people you see in comedy daily won’t be reading your jokes) and you can write as many topical jokes as you want without feeling like you’re spamming social media. As I’ve said before, it’s the only productive way to waste time on the internet I’ve ever found.
• Filmed some sets at the closing UCB East for the visiting Andrew Tavinamong others. Damn, that room closing will be such a loss to the comedy community. Their shows are consistently totally sold out (people were sitting on the floor for a straight stand up show); just goes to show how hard it is to keep a performance venue alive in NYC.
• Took two days off doing any comedy with the poor weather this weekend and decided to come back with all new jokes I wrote while sitting in my apartment with Anna E. Paone. It was nice to come back and see that they didn’t really work. I can’t get enough of retooling jokes, fixing them and learning on a daily basis. Hopefully, they hit sometime or they’re dead to me.
• Finally hit the 2000 Twitter followers goal. Embarrassed to say how good it felt. Thanks to those who hooked it up! Still down to follow/fav anyone’s Tweets if they want. Find me @mattlevy51 and fav a Tweet and I’ll fav ten or so back. That’s my medium, baby!
• If you haven’t seen the movie “Bodied” or “Fahrenheit 11/9” you haven’t seen the two best satires/movies of 2018. Full list to come soon.
• Excited to announce I’m doing Mr. Industry himself, Mike Guild's show this Thursday. Dude runs a tight ship and I’m so pumped to get to do this one at the Soho Playhouse.
