I caught another cold, so I have spent this meantime just recovering from that. Then we had a winter storm come along, so those were a few days of not working out or getting out to write. And since I have been churning out these short standalone jokes pretty consistently, I have felt the loss. But the bright side is that I have spent time refining the jokes I already had, and most of them are now ready to perform. Perform when? At what venue? Well, when the opportunity comes knocking, I hope to have my prepared material smashing through that door in response.
During this sickly time, I had the opportunity to audition to be on a singing show. It would have filmed in Ireland at the end of March, and I would have had a chance for a million dollar prize. But it would have also required me to sign a contract saying that I would not appear on network television in any other capacity for a year. I asked the creator of this show that we are about to film whether that could be an issue, and she said that by the fall, she expects us to be on cable, possibly network television. So I turned down the audition.
And then I read about how much I could expect to get paid for such a role. With one episode as a lead (which I am), I could potentially make a year's worth of minimum wage. If we actually make a full season, that could pay better than any of the medical jobs to which I had applied last year. And unlike those jobs, this one is likely to regularly challenge my skills as an improviser. I know this because at our last shoot, the show's creator told my scene partner to improvise, whereas I had specific information from the script that I needed to convey, so I had to guide the conversation and keep up with the changes.
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