Amanda the Aspiring TV Writer broke my heart yesterday. Yeah, she’s a babe, but I don’t mean it like that — we’ve never actually met. What she did was generously take the time to offer me some advice that I really didn’t want to hear. I asked Amanda what, given her Hollywood experience, she thought [...]
Stand-up comedy is like any other skill: it takes practice, practice, and more practice to develop your talent. If you take time off, you’ll be a step behind when you take it back up. When I take a few weeks off from jogging, I know that my first day back is going to be lousy, [...]
Remember when I said that two-percenter jokes work on TV, but not in stand-up comedy? Oops! Turns out I was wrong — there is a way to work them into a stand-up act. To refresh, a two-percenter is a joke that only a tiny portion of the audience will get. While that tiny portion will [...]
Como estan, beetches? Nice to see you again. I’m working on several new posts, but none of them are quite ready for prime time. Here’s a preview of what I’ll be talking about in the coming days: How to work a two-percenter into an act — Remember how I said that two-percenters are strictly for [...]
