Scarlet Masque Theatre Journal New Beginnings and Fond Farewells Vol. 1 | Page 109
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Nathan Hubert
Simply Watching
ALEXIS
No one wants to hire a comedian who isn’t funny. We’re barely
getting by.
JASON
So I ask her again if she had seen Barry, and she still just
looks at me. So there I am, wondering where my watch is, where
Barry is, and wondering if this woman would answer my question
if I had a drink with me. People are more willing to talk to
people who look like they’re having fun.
ALEXIS
But Mark has a stable career, and he’s funny and he’s way better
at fucking than you are.
JASON
So I’m about to walk away when the woman in the orange or red
dress points across the room and asks “that guy?” And I look
over and sure enough, it’s Barry. So I walk over to him and ask
him where he was, and you’ll never guess where he was.
ALEXIS
Face it, Mark is better than you in every way.
JASON
He was in the upstairs bathroom the whole time! So Barry and I
both grab drinks and sit down, and I tell him all about how I
was looking for him. It turns out that he knows the woman in the
red or orange dress. He told me she was twenty-seven, so I was
close.
ALEXIS
Mark is coming sometime soon to pick me up to go to the airport.
JASON
So Barry tells me that the reason that the woman in the red or
orange dress wouldn’t talk to me was because she was high. Now