From the vault: my eighth Instagram post ever. March 5, 2017. Caption: “Show was wonderful! Thank to the performers and the supporters! XTRA LRG Iced Comedy every first Saturday”
This is a carousel from a show, and the first photo in it is not even a close up of a face. It is the whole room, which honestly tells you more.
On the right, a comic is on the mic, grinning like a joke just landed. Behind him, wall to wall, floor to ceiling, are bookshelves packed with books. There is a little sign up top that says World History, because nothing sets up a punchline like several hundred years of documented human failure sitting right behind you. In front of him, a small crowd in folding chairs, washed in blue light, actually came out and sat down for this.
The post was tagged at Mutiny Comics and Coffee, and the caption was simple, the show was wonderful. Thank you to the performers and the supporters. XTRA LRG Iced Comedy, every first Saturday.
That thank you matters. Early comedy is not glamorous, it is borrowed rooms and small crowds and hoping the people who showed up tell one other person for next month. You do not get a regular first Saturday show without performers who keep showing up to work on jokes, and you do not keep it without supporters who choose a room full of books and folding chairs over staying home.
I love that I posted the wide shot. No posed picture, no big announcement, just proof that a roomful of people gathered between the shelves to laugh, and that it was enough to be grateful for in public.
Same guy now, on the roster at Comedy Works, won their 2026 New Faces Contest, out on the road hosting THE DOSE. The rooms are bigger now. The gratitude part is exactly the same, thank the performers, thank the supporters, then do it again next month.
Nic
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