Getting ready to run on "stage" for a Whirled News Corporate Gig.

Corporate gigs can sometimes be rough. Performing in a hotel convention room for an unresponsive audience under all kinds of restrictions. At first I was a little worried about this one, especially when an organizer said, "We've put our newsletter in with the other newspapers for people to cut articles out of. Just a heads up... the articles are mostly about things like human trafficking and horrible botched illegal abortions, so... you might not want to make fun of that stuff."

The show ended up being great, though. We had fun. They had fun.

One sign you're about to have a good corporate show: There's a flurry of energy right before you go on, as people start standing up and making spontaneous donations, raising a last-minute extra $10,000 for their cause. That's a hot crowd.