Comedy Timing: How Do You Get It?
There are a lot of new comedians and speaking professionals who want to know how to develop comedy timing. Let me say this…
Your comedy “timing” improves in direct relation to your comfort on stage AND your ability to capture your own natural comedy timing.
That’s right — everyone has a natural sense of comedy timing and are unaware of it. Let me show you what I mean…
Read this long sentence out loud:
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That folks, is the foundation of your comedy timing — saying what you have to say on stage in your own natural voice using your own natural breath pauses. This is your rhythm, which is usually between 9-15 syllables spoken in between between natural breath pauses (this applies to longer sentences you speak obviously).
When we comminicate with others verbally, each of us has a natural rhythm and speed that we speak at.
This is one of the reason that you want to “write” your stand-up comedy the way you actually talk, not the way it would be “read”. Each line of your act should be written out separated by breath pauses, NOT punctuation on the page!
This is how you capture your natural sense of comedy timing for the stage. Then if you apply the 3 line rule from the Killer Stand-up Comedy System…
You should have a pretty tight act and have it on paper in the format of your own natural timing.
There’s a bit more to learn about comedy timing, but this should give you a great start.
Cheers,
Stev Roye
The Professor of Funny For Money
About the Author/Founder of the SCP Blog
Steve Roye is the author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System and is a globally recognized expert in the field of stand-up comedy material development and presentation strategies -- for entertainers as well as speaking professionals.Please check out the Featured Articles page for direct links to articles on this blog for pro comedians, comedy entertainers, and speaking professionals.
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very very interesting, very cool to learn.