GCWPatrick

Picked up a new toy recently...a pocket digital voice recorder. Good for remembering joke ideas on the fly and also recording one's sets. Managed to record my last two stage appearances and it worked pretty well: Courtesy of Megaupload...just type in the three-letter verification code and hit the download button. 2/19 at Westport Funny Bone: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NI1222LH 2/24 at Fairview Funny Bone: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=POZ7Y5Y8

http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/Patrick...eyerSTL20071127 Not bad dude, but the crowd ate you alive. If you want some constructive criticism, read but if not, ignore. http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/Patrick...yer_STL20071009 This one's better. And ha, a Chris Benoit joke. I have permission from two local indy wrestlers who think the joke is funny. :-D Not even the only Benoit-related joke I have, either. I think that one makes fun of the wrestling fan mentality more than the situation itself.

There are actually quite a few open-mic and comedy options in the St. Louis metro area... Sunday: Fairview Heights(IL) Funny Bone Tuesday: Westport Funny Bone Wednesday: Comedy Forum in St. Peters Thursday: Blue Agave bar in Belleville(IL) Friday: "Cutthroat Comedy Show" at Jack's Ironhorse Bar & Grill in Bridgeton ...just to name a few. I try to frequent as many as possible to gain experience...

Just now finding the feedback...yeah... I have another clip on there which wasn't really one of my better efforts...I went on after Auggie Smith and that's a tough act to follow. Been doing open-mics and comedy shows all over the area to gain the experience. I agree that I'm very fidgety on stage and need to work on my overall confidence. I've thought about sitting down on the stool on stage...kinda defeats the purpose of STANDUP comedy, but at least the audience won't have motion sickness by the end of the set. I'm trying to do more writing these days after being sidetracked by Real Life stuff for a little while. I'm working on the VD joke and trying to expand it a bit(tis the season?). Slowing down my delivery would probably help a lot...it's funny because I notice it more when other comedians talk too fast. I'm making an effort to attempt longer sets...your traditional open-mic set is around five minutes(which is a LOT longer than it seems when you're up there!). Lately, I've done a few longer sets...closer to ten minutes. Sorry it took me so long to get back to this but I do appreciate the feedback...

WWE.com It’s often said that everything is bigger in Texas. Tonight on Raw, John Cena's return from injury could be put to two big tests when the Superstars sweep into the state’s capital of Austin. First, Cena will kick off Raw with an official contract signing for his WWE Championship match at No Way Out with Randy Orton. Last week, "The Champ" sent Orton a painful message with an FU that told the WWE Champion that he was coming to take his title back at No Way Out. The Legend Killer, who put Cena on the shelf to begin with, knows his nemesis is a threat to his reign. Is he plotting some kind of revenge? Is he laying a trap for Cena? Speaking of tests, poor Hornswoggle will undergo his greatest test in "tough love" tonight. One week after his father, Mr. McMahon, told him he was ashamed of him for his performance in the Royal Rumble, Hornswoggle will be forced to join the first-ever "Kiss My Ass Club" in HD. In other Raw news, last week, Jeff Hardy made it perfectly clear he has no intention of turning tail and running after having come so close to WWE gold. Just how he will make his presence felt is yet to be seen, especially since he will be one of six competitors in the Elimination Chamber at No Way Out. And how will the rest of the Superstars involved in the Chamber – Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, JBL and Umaga – seek to get an advantage with an opportunity to face the WWE Champion at WrestleMania at stake? And with another frustratingly close loss to Women’s Champion Beth Phoenix, Mickie James appears to be at her boiling point. What will it take for the Diva to finally score a victory over The Glamazon? And is she prepared to do whatever it takes? To find out the answers to these questions, tune in to Raw live 9/8 CT on the USA Network.

http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/ This is a great site that has clips of open-mic nights from a few different clubs across the country. Oh, and my stuff is on there too...check under my name(Patrick Brandmeyer). Only been doing it for a year and a half...I've got a long way to go.

Bryan Danielson is the franchise of ROH, if he didn't want to wrestle with a concussion, he didn't have too. Nigel had a concussion, and guess what? He didn't wrestle. It's also worth noting that some of the fans have been turning on Nigel for the horrible crime of being injured, chanting for him to drop the title.

Glad the main came off better on TV than it did in the reports. My main mindset going in was that HHH made sure we knew he was going to win before the screwy finish and that HHH's Rumble slot was positioned as being more important to Vince and Regal than Flair's career.

I'm having Blue Blazer flashbacks...this is a good thing(obviously excluding the final appearance of said gimmick).

Mark Madden's not hard to find. Yeah, cuz he's fat. (Hey, someone had to say it.)

Ehh...to use a comedy parallel, joking about Triple H never losing and holding people down is the equivalent of a "hack joke" these days. It's an easy wisecrack to make (which would explain why I see it happen a lot).

"I've got a great idea for Flair's retirement match..." "Hunter, all of your ideas end with 'and then I'd beat him'..." "Well, yeah, but it'd be really cool..."

(wait for it...) Since when did that warrant a booking change?

Speaking of MVP, it's too bad Ray Gordy already has a gimmick or they could have Michael Hayes manage him against MVP to get revenge for the VIP Lounge incident...

If they play it right(yeah, I know, work with me here), it could be a great opportunity to elevate someone. Throw a wildcard into that mix, play up that he's got an opportunity that he might not otherwise get. Even give him some upset wins over other Chamber participants leading up to the event. He may not win, but his stock would definitely rise in the eyes of the fans. You don't expect them to be in a PPV main event...which is why it would work. Even if there's a "lesser" guy in that match, there are five other guys to carry the star-power load.

Part two: "Some SMARK tries to talk about something he knows nothing about. nickflair says: "So the fans don't know what a four star match is...according to who's rating system? Shouldn't the fans be the ones who do the rating anyway? I mean honestly, and with all do respect to the business, but does anyone care that Mick Foley thought he had a four star match in 1987 somewhere in the south, or if Angle thinks his best work has been in TNA? Hell no. Fans want to be entertained, and the biz lives or dies dependent on what the fans, IWF (goofy moniker btw) or otherwise like or dislike. I think that you are mainly upset that wrestling doesn't have as much of the magic that it use to have. Before the Monday Night War's, wrestler's did not use their actual names as their stage name. When Nash and Hall showed up on Nitro and the nWo started, it was something totally new, because it blurred the line between real life and the ring. Since then, about half the wrestlers out there use their real names, instead of some made up 'catchy' name, because in my opinion, I doubt that fans care as much; it's just another facet of the business that has been taken down because it is outmoded. 2007 Wrestling is not the wrestling that we all grew up on. People don't want to see two guys sit in a headlock for 10 minutes, and thus, wrestlers don't do it anymore. A cross-body from the top is not much of a pop anymore, so guys do Swanton's and 450 splash's and moonsaults, because it's what the fans want, and the wrestlers know it. What I am trying to say is that the times have changed, and they will keep changing; either the magicians are running out of their magic or they need to learn some new tricks." Glenn's Response: "Boy, you don't get it all. First of all, a big wig from production the other day at TNA told me, and I'm going to investigate this further to see if it's true, that if you looked at the number of hits the wrestling websites get compared to the number of people that watch the show, the internet wrestling fan represents ONE PERCENT OF THE WRESTLING AUDIENCE! Let me repeat that. The internet wrestling fan represents ONE PERCENT OF THE WRESTLING AUDIENCE! And you're trying to tell me they keep the wrestling business alive? The problem is is that 99% of the boys go on the internet, and they're reading stuff about how good certain guys are, and these guys have no charismatic actions that can connect them with the fans. They can't cut promos and guys like you come on and talk about how booking is holding them back. The truth is, because the guys can wrestle, and thats all they can do, they should feel happy they're making money in this business, because most of their fans on the internet have selective memory. They forget about when guys were given a chance to cut an in ring 5 minute promo and they bombed, or when they were put in an angle with a top guy and were just concerned about getting their $#!+ in a match and it didn't get over. The internet fans forget things like that. They see the guy can wrestle the style they like and keep putting them over and the guy reads about how one percent of the fan base thinks he's great and you can't tell him otherwise. It creates a situation where a guy has talent, but needs to start doing something different because he's stuck in a rut and needs to be elevated. The veterans are trying to work with the guy to help him get over, but you can't tell the guy anything because he doesn't want to listen and why should he? He's reading how great he is and how great his matches are. THAT IS HURTING THE BUSINESS! THE NUMBERS DO NOT LIE!""

Sorry, my bad...

Dunno if this was posted anywhere else, but this is a column by Glen Gilberti(Disco Inferno) from wrestlezone.com... Part One: "Internet Wrestling Fans don't know what a good match is!" First of all, let me describe to you what an internet wrestling fan(IWF) is by my definition. An IWF goes on the wrestling websites at least three times a week, thinks that Vince Russo killed WCW, thinks Paul Heyman is a genius and ECW is the greatest thing ever, loves cruiserweights and X-Division guys, loves Japanese wrestling, and takes whatever Wade Keller and Dave Meltzer say as gospel. Now we could debate what an IWF is, but for arguments sake, let's just say that the demographic I just described exists and it does represent a percentage of the pie chart. I would say about a third of IWF's show the aforementioned characteristics. Let's not contest this point because I think it would be a waste of time. For the purposes of this article, I'm talking about this stereotypical smart mark. How do I know that they don't know what a good match is? Answer: the rating system. Most of these fans don't have any clue what a four star match is. I was at a TNA TV taping a couple of years ago and this Ring of Honor kid had a tryout match with some other X-Division guy. He was doing a Bruiser Brody rip-off gimmick complete with the boots, the "Husp, Husp" and had the "hold your wrist out in the upside down karate chop" thing working. And he weighed about 150 lbs. I'm at the monitor with I believe Harris and Storm and I'm like,"let's see how long these guys sell." Well, they have about a five minute match with every ridiculous high spot you can imagine and they sold every spot for literally almost exactly eight seconds, no more than ten tops. The thing was that this guy was supposedly having four star matches on the internet. If that's the type of matches that he'd been doing than he'd never had a four star match in his life. So as I started paying attention to the X-Division guys, I started noticing that everyone was following the "8 second rule." Do your spot, sell it for 8 seconds, do another high spot, sell it for eight seconds. All the while, I'm reading on the internet how great these guys are and how they're being underutilized. I'm reading on the internet how these crazy high fliers in Ring of Honor need to be signed. I watch them and most of them are using the 8 second rule. I'm thinking, "Does anybody have a clue what a good match is?" When I was booking WCW, I attended a focus group. There were 12 mainstream male wrestling fans - ages 18 to 38 - in a room being posed questions by a moderator while myself and about 4 other people from marketing were behind a two way mirror. Two of them were IWF's. We could see them, they couldn't see us, and they're being asked questions like, "Who's your favorite wrestler?" Goldberg, Austin, Rock, Sting, Outsiders they answer. "How often do you watch the shows?" Almost all of them watched the shows. "How often do you watch a ppv?" Every month. "How many times have you rented a ppv?" Zero. Wait - what was that? ZERO? How could that be? I call the moderator behind the glass and tell him to ask where they watch them. Answer: friends' houses, illegal black box, and bars. I'm like "that is unbelievable". We're writing four hours of TV a week to sell a ppv that nobody buys, but everybody sees. What a great business plan. And we wonder why WCW went out of business. So the guy asks them if they liked the cruiserweights. "Nope". What do you mean "nope"? Nobody likes the cruiserweights?? I find that hard to believe. Why not? The consensus was that they're too small and they looked fake. I wanted to come out from behind the two way mirror and smack them. OF COURSE IT'S FAKE! IT'S WRESTLING! I mean smaller boxers have entertaining fights and such, why does their size matter. But then other things are coming out of this group like, "I know wrestling's fake, but Goldberg, man, I don't know. I think he's real." Good Lord. Goldberg's got wrestling fans thinking things are getting real again. Wow! So I'm pretty much surmising that the reason they think the matches look fake is because they're not doing anything to make it look real. Goldberg's smashing people with three devastating moves and the match is over. Cruiserweights are smashing each other with 7 different moves and they're selling for eight seconds. But all the while, I'm reading on the internet how great their matches are. News Flash! All of the guys I know in the business are reading the internet. Just hoping and praying that they get "4 stars." The problem with this is that this mindset of work that has been created infects the industry, because people believe what they read. That's marketing 101. People are more inclined to believe something when they read it. So you've got a whole bunch of up 'n comers coming into the business and everyone's killing themselves and selling for eight seconds and none of them are getting over because mainstream fans think it looks fake. Here's some advice: LEARN HOW TO SELL! Instead of watching Japanese wrestling tapes where matches start with two guys standing in front of each other trading forearms to the head. Watch the main events of every WWE ppv you can get your hands on. Watch Austin, Rock, Angle, and HHH work each other and watch how long they sell. One of the main problems with the smaller guys is that they're given a specific amount of time to wrestle and they try to fit all their high spots in, but they don't figure in how long they should be selling. They end up selling everything for eight seconds and then the match is over. However, the IWF's are still putting them over and they're not changing a thing. I say those matches would be just as good if they took out a third of the high spots and selling the moves that they do more. Make the moves look like they hurt. If you don't, it just comes across as scripted acrobatics. Now I don't want people to think that I don't know that Bret and Austin had a four star match. Or that Benoit/Angle was four stars or most of the matches that are generally accepted as great matches are what they are...great matches. My rant is against the subliminal education that is happening via the internet, where IWF's and the workers themselves are reading and watching guys that can't sell and being told that these guys know how to work, when the reality is that it's creating a style that's hurting the business. Now, of course there are guys that are great and have a clue, like AJ and Samoa Joe. It's just that I'm worried that in this computer age we live in that a bad message is spread so fast that it's hard to find a cure. As long as the internet creates a forum where guys can be told whether they're good or not, and that message is held as gospel, even when they're not, then you can make an argument that the internet is hurting the business. That's just my opinion. I may be wrong.

I think the fake HBK was NWA Anarchy wrestler Jeff Lewis. Not sure who the other two were.

This is way over due. First off the reason why I was released was because I did not want to do a morally degrading storyline that was already done, plain and simple. Lita was in my opinion the greatest female wrestler of all time (next to Jazz). Lita revolutionized the world of wrestling. She showed that women could be strong, beautiful, and be a draw in the sexiest world of wrestling. She had little girls watching her wanting to become an athlete instead of a princess when they grew up. She was also one of the few women who wrestled men. With blood, sweat, tears and a broken neck later, she earned the respect of everyone in the wrestling business. So the WWE had the bright idea of turning her personal business into a public free for all. Sure that "storyline" transformed a well-loved babyface into a huge heel, but at whose expense? Look at how Trish retired…now look at how Lita retired. On the day of Lita's retirement, the fans didn't just boo her because she had heat; they booed her because despite all that she contributed to women's wrestling, all that they seemed to remember about her was the "slutty" vamp she played on TV. I am nowhere as accomplished as she was, so imagine what that type of role would have done to me. I have seen a lot of people sell their souls to this business for whatever reason, but I stand strong to what I believe in. I feel like now that I am not in the WWE there is a lot of b.s. talk of me being a difficult person or having a huge ego, believe what you want that is not the case. I just want to thank all of the fans that supported me through everything. I also want to thank some really cool people who genuinely saw potential in my talent, and who helped train me: Dave Finlay, Booker T, Queen Sharmell and their Pro Wrestling Academy. I will be re-launching my new myspace page shortly so watch out for that, there will be some very important news posted there very shortly. - Kristal Marshall Source: kristal-marshall.net According to PWSpyware, the plan was for Kristal to have conspired with Edge to cause Long's heart attack as revenge for Edge being stripped of the World Title earlier this year, thus leading to her being paired with Edge in a Lita-esque role.

I am attempting to set my expectations as low as humanly possible so I won't be disappointed... After the big entrance, Jericho only gets a few words out before Triple H nails him from behind and Pedigrees him on the stage. He then grabs the mic and says "that's what the overrated actor should have done eight years ago".

Hell No! But If Tim White Came Back... Id Pay $40 Just To See him Again!!! Mr. White! That's not wise! Seriously, I'd flip out if Shawn not only uses the Sharpshooter but does the whole Five Moves Of Doom sequence leading up to it.

He's little.

That irony of this post, is your sig. Not to mention his user name.

On the bright side, Harris makes sense(since he almost made it into the reverse battle royal thing). Plus I'm stoked for the Kazarian vs. Christian tournament final.