G: John and
I met Chris and Jake and Ingrid in DC Friday night at HR-27 for the
DC Comedy Festival. There were
two shows at 7, 9, and 11pm, one upstairs and one downstairs. We bought
passes for all evening.
We met them at the table they had gotten up front. The 7pm show was
good, but then they made us leave and come back again. We weren't sure
how far to leave and ended up staying in the building and getting back
to the same table for the 9pm show. Jake and Ingrid decided they were
getting tired and went home, and Rich text messaged Chris to say he was
in line outside. He never made it in, and that was too bad. Chris
teased him with texted lies about how the comedian was doing 15 minutes
on cuff links and was killing, when the show hadn't even started yet.
Rich replied, "I hate you." Chris sent another message back saying,
"OMG! He's started on ascots."
The 9pm show was a long line up of short sets - auditions for the
Tonight Show. It started off pretty good but somewhere in the middle
was a very strong string of comedians and I was laughing so hard at one
of them that I was crying. I didn't notice the comedian look at me
funny, but then he did a bit about how when someone laughs really hard
he looks at them like, "What's wrong with you?!"
We were all pretty tired after laughing for a couple of hours and
decided not to stay for the 11pm show.
The next day the three of us went to Jake's for his birthday
celebration of gaming all day. We arrived sometime in the afternoon and
I played John's game,
Inquisition, which John won handily.
Meanwhile, Liam had brought all sorts of chocolate and Chris and I
pigged out on it.
After
Inquisition we played
Free Range Chicken, a
Why
Did The Chicken...? variant where everyone writes down some random
words or phrases. They get mixed up and two are drawn. The judge puts
them in whatever order they want and then declares what kind of
responses they want, such as "movie plot" or "college course." As usual
with a Chicken game, hilarity ensued.
We played
Coloretto before John dropped Chris and me off at the
Metro to go back to the Comedy Festival. We went to the same place but
this time watched the shows downstairs. It wasn't as funny as the first
night but still fun. The 9pm show was called the Weird Show, and it
wasn't that weird. But still kind of funny.
We saw
Rob Paravonian at the
end. I've long enjoyed
this piece of
musical comedy. Chris said he'd taken a class with him. We saw him by
the bathrooms after the show and Chris said hi and talked about the
class they'd taken together. I told him I enjoyed his work on a Dr.
Demento CD and on youtube. He invited us to join the comedians at a
bar, but we decided to go back to the party instead.
We walked in the rain from the Metro, and found the stragglers in a
poker game. When that finally wrapped up we went home around 3am.
John did our taxes, and got them in on time. He filed for free again
this year, on the web for both state and fed returns.