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Bombing at a Comedy Festival in Austin
from 146 - Small Town Girl · #146
2 min
Tim recounts lackluster stand-up sets at an Austin comedy festival, doing a live podcast with Ron Bennington, and eating brisket with TruTV executives.
- Tim just returned from a comedy festival in Austin where he had lackluster sets while stone-cold sober navigating drunk frat bros, tech bros, and homeless people on 6th Street.
- Festival badges cost between four hundred and a thousand dollars, and Tim acknowledges the audience probably paid that to see him bomb.
- Tim did a great live podcast with Ron Bennington and Jeremiah Watkins's show was fun, but his stand-up sets weren't connecting.
- Seven-minute sets forced him on and off stage quickly, and the audience was still figuring out what was happening around them.
- The silver lining was spending time with comedians, agents, and managers—Tim sarcastically insists he wouldn't be funny without truTV and the entertainment business people he networked with.
- Tim reflects on the vacant looks in people's faces as he struggled to get a laugh during his sets at the festival.