New english site!

From now on I will not be blogging here, but in the english blog at http://www.magnusbetner.com

Update your bookmarks and change the RSS-feed to http://www.magnusbetner.com/category/blog/feed/

Cya there!

That was fun.

Did a gig in english in Stockholm yesterday and although most of the 500 guests spoke swedish I had a lot of fun. Tried some new stuff and got most of my stuff from New York into the act. Did a little over 20 minutes and could have gone a little longer i think.

I think I'm gonna do my stuff in english at RAW this weekend too. After all, the audience is there to see an englishspeaking headliner so i might as well. Hope I'll see you there. There are not many tickets left, but you find 'em at www.ticnet.se

New date. English in Sweden.

I'm gonna be a part of the english comedy night at Syster o Bror near KTH in Stockholm on april 22.

I'm doing 20 minutes and the rest of the lineup is as follows:

James McKie
Alex Lasarev
John Houdi

The entire show will be in english and Marcus Palm is MC.

All the info you might need is on Facebook.

More dates in Stockholm and London will be added soon.

Only 2 gigs left in New York.

In a couple of hours I leave for Pleasantville, NY. Really looking forward to it and I'm bringing my camera, so hopefully I can share the experience here tomorrow. Probably gonna be a big difference from the clubs I've worked in town...

Tomrrow is my very last gig in NYC. That show is gonna be great, so don't miss it if you are in town. The place will be packed, so be there early. Show is hosted by Yannis Pappas, who will also show some Ditch films.

Lineup:
Cory Fernandez
Sean Patton
Greg Barris
Magnus Betnér
Tommy Amado

Starts 8 pm at Building on Bond.
100 Bond Street, corner Bond/Pacific
Brooklyn

They were drunk. Really drunk.

The set at Europa went well although we had to rush from there to The Village Lantern so Yannis missed his set. In retrospect i think he would have rather stayed behind. The audience at our second gig was very, very drunk. And loud... And drunk, did i mention that?

It's rare that you see an audience behaving like that. They really didn't give any of the comics before me a chance to do anything. If it would have been in Sweden I probably would have just walked off the stage, but hey, I'm here for the challenge. Somehow i actually got the two loudest drunks to shut up. Edited what little material I did out of there and kept some 7 minutes of me trying to stop hecklers. I really have no patience with audiences being like that, but somehow i kinda enjoyed it yesterday. Hope you do to.

One more spot tonight.

Also doing a spot at Europa nightclub in Williamsburg. Show starts 8 pm. After that I go over to Village Lantern on Bleecker for a spot there. That show starts at 9 pm.

My barber Gary.

I've always wanted to have my own barber. Not only to cut my hair, but to shave. Now I do. Or at least I've had him the past 2 weeks. One of the many, many things I'm gonna miss about New York is Gary's close shave with the straight razor. (Photo by Helena)

We had a real fun show at Bar 4 yesterday. I ended up not doing the stuff I had planned but doing some stuff i wrote yesterday and a lot of improvisations. Worked really well. Sadly i forgot my camera...

Tonight I'm on at The Village Lantern again. Show starts at 9 pm and The Lantern is located on Bleecker St between Sullivan and Thompson. Drop in!