The Sasquatch Solution: First Run
Last night I debuted the first of what I hope will evolve into a series of funny lectures about the future.
Broadly called “Future Tense”, the premise is that I’m a normal dude who has traveled to the not-too-distant future and back. Now I show up at comedy clubs to tell everyone about the strange things they will encounter 10-20 years in the future.
I’m pretty jazzed about the idea. Think it has a great potential for hilarious satire.
In this segment of “Future Tense” I talk about how in the future a group of tree planters stumble into a Sasquatch and the profound impact that has on the entire human race. Humanity’s capacity to love is only matched by our capacity to hate. In this age of political correctness, all the nations and religions of the world will never be able to come together until we can find a common enemy to hate the shit out of.
Click on this link to download an mp3 recording of the first performance of The Sasquatch Solution. (Host, Dave Ackerflug mistakenly calls it The Sasquatch Adventure.)
(UPDATE: The audio is broken and I don’t know why…)
Like Christophe said last night, you need to use the open mic nights to work out your comedy, not just to flex in front of the mirror. I’d never done any of this material before, so I was happy that people laughed during the test run.
Now that the inagural set is done, I’m going to work on the dynamism of the whole thing. Get much higher energy with it. Have a stronger comic point of view, etc. Looking forward to fine tuning it. Thanks to Jeanne who found the perfect music for the series.
I would love to hear your feedback.
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