This is the life, this is the Free nobody else gets.

I wish like hell George and I were the type of performers that thought ahead to have someone shoot video of our shows for our own use and review and things like that - sadly, we both enjoy the fleeting nature of what we do and the fact that you can't really hang onto the shows, even when it makes it difficult to explain the shows to other people that we might want to show it to or how badly we might want to learn from the really great moments.

Sunday we had a morning rain show - we love rain shows.  
The audience may be smaller in number but they are 100% people that really want to be there and see what we're doing.  The energy was high, we were having a blast and the timing was really flowing. It was the right balance of well executed show and making each other laugh and having fun while doing the well executed show.  
I would gladly point to that show as us in top form.

The late show was the polar opposite - from the very beginning our "normal" routine was off the rails.  not because of problems, but because we collectively made the decision to just take everything off the rails and find out what madness we could slam into.  We screwed with each other WAY more than normal but managed to bring the audience along for the ride so everyone was in on the weird and could laugh at the mistakes.
We do try to be aware that the audience is just as hot/sticky/wet/cold as we are and they also have other stuff to do and shows they want to see, so at one point we asked how long we had been going.  Someone shouted "WE DON'T CARE" - which was the best thing we could have heard back at that point, which was already well over our normal show length.
We ended up doing our longest show ever, afterward George and I were backstage laughing ourselves to tears over some of it, that's how much fun we have doing our show.

At the end of days like that, I often feel strange about asking for money.
Instead I feel we owe the audience our gratitude and thanks and we should stand in the back and thank every single one of them for what they have given us - a chance to do what we do.  
Every once and a while we really do it right and we wouldn't get there if not for people coming to see us be weird and stupid and funny on those days and all the other times leading up to those days.
I have the chance to stroll out onstage twice a day, fifteen days a year and have more fun than anyone else ever has.  I am lucky as hell and I am sensible enough to know it.
Thank you all for that