Episode Description
Jacob Jonas
In this episode Mark Masters talks to Jacob Jonas, a 2+ year comedian who started in Durango, CO and now based in Denver, CO.
Mark drives Jacob from the Capitol Hill neighborhood around Denver to a number of open mics, and in-between to Comedy Works as they talk comedy, comedians, and stand up comics.
They discuss:
- an intro from Mark, Hannibal Buress mention
- Jacob Jonas joins
- Breakfast King, old restaurant, new mic
- Deadroom, LLC
- Brunch comedy show, There
- Almost 3 years in comedy
- Durango comedy scene
- Mark’s history with comedy
- Freak train, Bug Theater
- Mistakes on stage
- Audience visibility
- Syntax Physic Opera
- Be nice to newer comics?
- NY and SF scenes nicer than Denver
- Gotham bringer show NYC, Andrew Schulz
- Set goals
- Building a set, Jacob process
- Joke documents in Google docs
- Recycling old jokes into new material
- 8 hour comedy shift
- Mark challenge: not repeat any jokes tonight
- The Goods mic, Chuck Roy, Mike Langworthy
- Michael Isaacs, repeating material
- Secret Comedy Works offices
[Breakfast King]
- good crowd, early mic
- diner friendly material
- Mark hand motion and mic in the stand
- Body language
- An advantage of comic turnover (old jokes can be new again)
- Show at the Breakfast King (after midnight)
- Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCujNO4Cz42WodqT89GhR0Jw
- Jacob Jonas on YouTube
- Video editing tools, Sony Vegas
- First ever mic, Irish Embassy back bar, underground
- Time machine question
- Be open to bombing
- Be conversational
- Washington Park
- A well deserved bomb
- Streets of London, Lion’s Lair, 3 Kings (the meanest mics in Denver)
- Mark is old and gets tired
- Are there mics that are not worth it?
- Goals and challenges for next mic, movement, longer set
- Nervous about act-outs and voices
- Impersonations
- Contest comedy and getting judged (Durango example)
- Merging two bits together
[Tea Street]
- Heading to Comedy Works
- Host at start
- 3 “surprise” audience members Mark bombed with
- Mark up to 16 minutes, Jacob up to 11 on the night
- Burger King jokes
- 3rd year of comedy lessons - how to use open mics
- Mark’s first open mic
- It feels good to see a terrible open mic comic if they are brand new
- Megan and Laura open-mic hosts
- New Talent Night at Comedy Works
- Kelsey Cook
- Working out material
- Psychedelic mushrooms
- Combining random topics
- Jokes like a puzzle
- Jeff Stonic, David Leipzig, Josh Grambo
- Basement open mics (like in the home)
- Driving solo and working out material
- Watching stand-up
- Louis C.K. in Denver last Thursday, Joe List opener
- Analyzing amateur stand-up
- The book, Not Good Yet
- Writing process
- Writer square parking lot
- Talking about 2nd book
[New Talent Night at Comedy Works, watching only]
- Newbies crushed
- Kelsey Cook drop-in
- Salma Zaky 5 minute spot
- Running an open mic, Friday night mic Polycarbonate
- Derek Walton, a role model for running a mic
- Finding a venue for an open mic
- Important things about open mic success
[Irish Snug]
- Derek Walton
- Mark past 20 minutes of material
- Graphic design
- Good and bad comedy posters
- Photoshop, Pixelmator Pro
- Social media by proxy
- Facebook and comedy
- Email and young people
- Creating your own stage time
- Not on Facebook, a pro for mental health
- Alec Flynn, Kira MagCalen (artist and comic)
- Goals, crowd work
- Mutiny
[Mutiny Information Cafe]
- Mark up to 28 minutes, now 11:46PM
- Show running tips, promotion
- Voodoo Doughnuts
- Oren Be, Irish Rover
- Harrison Garcia, Jagged Mountain
- Mark’s secret to promoting comedy shows
- Cortez, CO
- Mark is tired
- Mark is cold
- Mark is old
- Mark love note story
- Unusually attentive audience
- Jose Macall, Jim owner of Mutiny
- The value of open mics
- The number of open mics
- Cliffhanger
[Kynga’s]
- Mark kind of made it to 40 minutes
- Spreadsheet of mics
- Jacob got to 24 minutes
- Got up quickly, nice surprise
- Jacob on doing the same joke five times in one night
- Jacob is tired, but still not old!
- Mark is angry about one of the open mic comics
- A bunny
- The end of an epic run
- https://www.instagram.com/papar_mosxas/ (Jacob Jonas)
And much, much more. Strap in. This is a good one.
Brought to you by Not Good Yet, the book by Mark Masters. www.notgoodyet.com
In this episode Mark Masters talks to Jacob Jonas, a 2+ year comedian who started in Durango, CO and now based in Denver, CO.
Mark drives Jacob from the Capitol Hill neighborhood around Denver to a number of open mics, and in-between to Comedy Works as they talk comedy, comedians, and stand up comics.
They discuss:
- an intro from Mark, Hannibal Buress mention
- Jacob Jonas joins
- Breakfast King, old restaurant, new mic
- Deadroom, LLC
- Brunch comedy show, There
- Almost 3 years in comedy
- Durango comedy scene
- Mark’s history with comedy
- Freak train, Bug Theater
- Mistakes on stage
- Audience visibility
- Syntax Physic Opera
- Be nice to newer comics?
- NY and SF scenes nicer than Denver
- Gotham bringer show NYC, Andrew Schulz
- Set goals
- Building a set, Jacob process
- Joke documents in Google docs
- Recycling old jokes into new material
- 8 hour comedy shift
- Mark challenge: not repeat any jokes tonight
- The Goods mic, Chuck Roy, Mike Langworthy
- Michael Isaacs, repeating material
- Secret Comedy Works offices
[Breakfast King]
- good crowd, early mic
- diner friendly material
- Mark hand motion and mic in the stand
- Body language
- An advantage of comic turnover (old jokes can be new again)
- Show at the Breakfast King (after midnight)
- Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCujNO4Cz42WodqT89GhR0Jw
- Jacob Jonas on YouTube
- Video editing tools, Sony Vegas
- First ever mic, Irish Embassy back bar, underground
- Time machine question
- Be open to bombing
- Be conversational
- Washington Park
- A well deserved bomb
- Streets of London, Lion’s Lair, 3 Kings (the meanest mics in Denver)
- Mark is old and gets tired
- Are there mics that are not worth it?
- Goals and challenges for next mic, movement, longer set
- Nervous about act-outs and voices
- Impersonations
- Contest comedy and getting judged (Durango example)
- Merging two bits together
[Tea Street]
- Heading to Comedy Works
- Host at start
- 3 “surprise” audience members Mark bombed with
- Mark up to 16 minutes, Jacob up to 11 on the night
- Burger King jokes
- 3rd year of comedy lessons - how to use open mics
- Mark’s first open mic
- It feels good to see a terrible open mic comic if they are brand new
- Megan and Laura open-mic hosts
- New Talent Night at Comedy Works
- Kelsey Cook
- Working out material
- Psychedelic mushrooms
- Combining random topics
- Jokes like a puzzle
- Jeff Stonic, David Leipzig, Josh Grambo
- Basement open mics (like in the home)
- Driving solo and working out material
- Watching stand-up
- Louis C.K. in Denver last Thursday, Joe List opener
- Analyzing amateur stand-up
- The book, Not Good Yet
- Writing process
- Writer square parking lot
- Talking about 2nd book
[New Talent Night at Comedy Works, watching only]
- Newbies crushed
- Kelsey Cook drop-in
- Salma Zaky 5 minute spot
- Running an open mic, Friday night mic Polycarbonate
- Derek Walton, a role model for running a mic
- Finding a venue for an open mic
- Important things about open mic success
[Irish Snug]
- Derek Walton
- Mark past 20 minutes of material
- Graphic design
- Good and bad comedy posters
- Photoshop, Pixelmator Pro
- Social media by proxy
- Facebook and comedy
- Email and young people
- Creating your own stage time
- Not on Facebook, a pro for mental health
- Alec Flynn, Kira MagCalen (artist and comic)
- Goals, crowd work
- Mutiny
[Mutiny Information Cafe]
- Mark up to 28 minutes, now 11:46PM
- Show running tips, promotion
- Voodoo Doughnuts
- Oren Be, Irish Rover
- Harrison Garcia, Jagged Mountain
- Mark’s secret to promoting comedy shows
- Cortez, CO
- Mark is tired
- Mark is cold
- Mark is old
- Mark love note story
- Unusually attentive audience
- Jose Macall, Jim owner of Mutiny
- The value of open mics
- The number of open mics
- Cliffhanger
[Kynga’s]
- Mark kind of made it to 40 minutes
- Spreadsheet of mics
- Jacob got to 24 minutes
- Got up quickly, nice surprise
- Jacob on doing the same joke five times in one night
- Jacob is tired, but still not old!
- Mark is angry about one of the open mic comics
- A bunny
- The end of an epic run
- https://www.instagram.com/papar_mosxas/ (Jacob Jonas)
And much, much more. Strap in. This is a good one.
Brought to you by Not Good Yet, the book by Mark Masters. www.notgoodyet.com