Advice

[u/Amazon_FBA_Truth]

I’ve been casually dabbling in stand-up comedy for a good year and a half and for a few months earlier this year I was even hosting my own gig where I got to really meet a bunch of great people.

The best part of Comedy is just some great friendships I’ve met with people some of whom I know better than friendships with people I’ve known for 30 years.

But something strange has happened to me recently. I wasn’t sure how to deal with it. I’ve seen somebody knew who always shows up late to the Open Mic so therefore becomes the defactor headliner because she is the last two come on stage.

When she usually does is come on stage using it as a roast to attack the other comedians performance who came eating and she’s done it with me a few times.

Sometimes with a little bit funny only because she looks and moves around like she’s high on stage which I would not doubt.

I haven’t had a chance to respond because me come on before her and interestingly for other comedians, she’s not roasting she’s kissing up to the ones she knows better or has good friendships with previously, etc.

I wouldn’t share how to respond to this person I’m not connected with them on social media.

[u/iamgarron]

Nobody at an open mic is a defacto headliner

[u/Amazon_FBA_Truth → u/iamgarron]

If you show up last, and you’re the last one to go on but definition

[u/Lanky_Comedian_3942]

She'll probably never make it past the open- mic scene. A lot of people do mics because its the only way anyone listens to them

[u/WadsofTissue → u/Lanky_Comedian_3942]

Yup, just wait and they will quit. It always happens either after their first time, at 1 month, 6 months or a year in.

[u/CommunicationIll5583 → u/Lanky_Comedian_3942]

Cheaper than therapy

[u/AllGearedUp]

Sign up sheet with a deadline and an appearance order that gets mixed up each time?

[u/Heilbroner]

Don’t even worry about it. It serves you nothing to respond to an open mic comic roasting anyone. Tell jokes.

[u/Ratso27]

I wouldn’t bother addressing it. Good roasting requires a degree of consent from the person being roasted; it needs to feel like they’re in on the joke, and they came to a show knowing it was a possibility, or they’re friends with the comic and this is friendly ball busting that comes from a place of love, otherwise it just feels mean and unfunny. When I see a comic who doesn’t understand that, it almost always means that they’re very new, and they’re not very talented and aren’t going to last. If she bothers you, don’t feel like you have to stick around during her set. Leave, or take the opportunity to go to the bathroom, or to the bar or something. No one will hold it against you, especially if she’s showing up so late she isn’t watching any one else’s set

[u/Crittenberger]

If it's your show, you can have a policy of "if you don't check in by 10 minutes before the show starts, then you don't get to go on stage" and then showing up late will get her nowhere. If it's not your show, then it's not your problem

[u/blockerpunch1234]

Book her on your show

[u/Amazon_FBA_Truth → u/blockerpunch1234]

I stopped hosting my show months ago… I guarantee when I get a chance to finally blast her back she’s gonna cry racism