Had my first paid stand up set last night. The evening was sort of all over the place, but decent overall. The comic who was supposed to go up first bailed so I ended up having to open the whole show. I hate having to warm up the crowd, they also fucked up my mic and had to replace it three separate times in the first joke. It's no secret timing is pretty fucking important in comedy, so having someone walk up and take the mic from my hand in the middle of a joke to fix it is a little frustrating. The set, once I got warmed up/the mic was fixed, went pretty well though. Got some good laughs. At the end of the night they ended up only paying me fucking $20.00 which kinda pissed me off because I was lead to believe it would be a lot more. They pumped me full of free beers, which I was stoked on, but I would have much rather been given the worth of the beer in cash. Can't pay bills in diarrhea, which is all that I had to show for those beers this morning. Overall a good experience and pretty exciting to have my first "real" gig, albeit with a few bumps along the way.