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DAY TWO: September 5, 2004

10:00 a.m. Hail Mary.

The great one liners are flying out of Mary while we're sitting at the bar waiting for our first take. Here's one:

"He's out there changing the world, I'm at home changing channels."

I'm trying to convince the crew to forget Babylon and just film Mary's ad-lib rants.

I mean, there's art, and then there's art.

5:29 p.m. Indifferently.

We're done with most of the performance footage, from several different camera angles. Seemed to go well, but I don't really know, since I'm in front of the camera. Not sure I want to know.

Right now we're in the middle of my interactions with Mary; the actual open mic signup, with Mary greeting me indfferently, and the closing shot with Mary indifferently kicking me off the stage.

She's great. Hilarious.

It's a good thing we did the performance footage first: I'm about to fall over.

NEXT: "11,000 words, yo"