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 think [...]
(NOTE: In yesterday’s post, I talked about an entry level job I once had at UPS, and how the outrageously high employee turnover kept employees from being accepted, among their co-workers, until they had been around for a while. The situation with stand-up comedians is much the same. This is part two; here’s part one.)
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About three years ago, after some early years as a suit-wearing corporate tool, I went a little nuts in the opposite direction and got one of the most menial jobs imaginable. For a year I worked as a package loader at UPS, on the overnight shift, in the most notoriously crazy section of their busiest [...]
There exists a fairly rigid hierarchy among stand-up comedians, which I’ve discussed before. Simply put, stage time for open mics and weekend host/feature spots is largely based on seniority — and since experience and talent tend to be roughly equivalent in stand-up comedy, this is a system that benefits the audience, too.
At my home club [...]
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