November 20, 1998
The ambiguity continues. The callback went very well. It also didn't go very well. It was hard to gauge their response. There were occasions when one or two or the five people in the room would laugh very hard at something I was doing, usually seperate from just the dialogue. That's a good sign. It suggests they like what I'm bringing to it and that they find me clever and/or funny, right?
The problem was with the jokes that were in the dialogue. The stuff that was supposed to generate laughs really wasn't. The best case reason for that is that since I was the third Craig in a row to read for the group, they were growing tired of the material. That would be supported by the fact that the next person they took in was not a Craig, and that they had to go out of order to get a non-Craig. Worst case is that they thought I was cute and interesting until I had to carry the material and they felt I couldn't do that. Then they were so bored and tired after my lifeless reading, they needed to cleanse their collective palate of my audition before they could stomach another Craig audition.
That's what the mind tells you every once in a while. It's important not to listen.
Go on to the 2nd Callback.