I’m a 20 year old female and my favorite comedian Jim Norton is performing in my town, and none of my friends want to go. He’s a dirty comic, and I admittedly feel awkward going so see him alone. If I went I would make sure to sit in the back away from tables with multiple seating.
friends may be willing to go if you offer to buy them a ticket.
CharlotteNC, welcome to the Straight Dope. Our General Questions forum is for questions with factual answers. Since you are seeking opinions, let’s move this to our IMHO forum.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
You don’t want to sit up front for a number of reasons. You’ll be the butt of a number of jokes from the stage. I once went to see one of our esteemed members here, who lives a double life as a stand-up comedian. It was actually quite funny, if you can take the abuse! It wasn’t our member here who abused me; it was the MC for the evening.
Otherwise, just go and have some fun. No one’s going to care that you’re alone.
This isn’t 1815. Women are allowed to go places on their own nowadays.
Lots of people feel awkward going to entertainment alone, not just women. There are lots of people, male and female, who don’t like to go to movies by themselves.
I go to shows and movies alone quite frequently. You might feel weird about it at first (hell, sometimes I still feel weird about it), but there’s nothing inherently weird in enjoying a show all by yourself.
Sure, someone might see you sitting all alone and think, “Oh, poor thing.” But then again, you might happen to look over at someone else and think something unflattering about them. Everyone has opinions about stuff. But unexpressed opinions can’t hurt you.
Whenever I am feeling self-conscious about being alone, I always give myself a “story”. Maybe I’m a professional art critic. Or maybe a friend suddenly had a change of plans and gave me their ticket. Or maybe I’m the SO of one of the performers.
One thing that comes with age is confidence. It takes some doing and a few falls along the way.
It does take some thickening of the skin, but that’s not a bad thing. That will happen one way or another. Might as well try to enjoy it.
Go see the comic. Sit in the back if you want.
I’m a guy, not a girl, but FWIW I’ve gone to comedy shows alone, and, though it probably would have been more enjoyable if I had had someone else there with me, I did enjoy myself and didn’t feel particularly awkward.
I’m a woman and I go to concerts and baseball games by myself all the time. I’m older though (36), and I think it does take a little time to build up the self confidence. But you can only build it by starting to do stuff on your own. This sounds like a good opportunity for you!
Although I’m having some trouble seeing what kind of fall might be involved in going to a place by yourself. I think there are literally zero things that could go wrong.
OP, just go. It’s fine.
You should go for it. Jim Norton’s a really awesome comic (I saw him perform a few times at a local comedy club when I was in college)! And hey, if you go, you probably won’t look back and regret it, but you might regret passing up the chance later.
Go ahead and go. Wear a ski mask.
I go alone to comedy shows alone frequently. In some clubs they seat parties together, so they might put you with a group of three at a table for four. I do also tell the person doing the seating sometimes that I want to sit out of the range of crowd work.
And yes, go see Jim Norton!
It’s good to be able to go out on your own and have fun. It’s a good skill to have. Go and have fun. If you like him so much, after five minutes you won’t even remember you are old.
Oops. :smack:
Ha! I can’t discern if this is intended or perhaps some sort of typo.
Anyway, I agree with others. Once you reach a certain age you stop giving a shit what other people think of you. And it’s really refreshing once you hit that wall.
Do you have an extra ticket? Are you IN Charlotte? Shit, I’ll go with you…
Regardless of gender some feel strange going out alone. Some people WILL judge you, if for no other reason, because they are too inhibited to consider doing it themselves unless insert bad thing. Fuck 'em if they can’t take you enjoying jokes. Life experience helps but some never get over the inhibition. My life would be a lot drearier without the willingness to do things alone. I would have missed meeting some interesting people too. Have fun. Just maybe you build some confidence that applies in other ways. If nothing else you find out a little about yourself by trying something new to you.
Welcome and thanks. I’ve seen Jim Norton on Inside Amy Schumer but wouldn’t have recognized his name till I just looked him up, Maybe it’s time to check out his solo work. 