For those wanting to know how to become a comedian on a new level, I want to talk about comedy competitions and comedy talent shows.

Sometime, somewhere you are probably going to compete in a comedy competition or comedy talent show (or at least consider it).

Let me just say beyond the very first comedy competition I was in (which I won), my experience with comedy competitions has not been that favorable.

The main reasons comedy competitions weren’t usually favorable was because of my own lack of knowledge about how many comedy competitions REALLY work and my own unrealistic expectations. Read the rest of this entry

About the Author/Founder of The Stand-up Comedy Professional

Steve Roye is the author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System and author of the content made available in the Comedy Pro Membership Program available on this site.

Over the past decade, Steve has established himself as a leading, globally recognized expert in the field of stand-up comedy material development, delivery and entertainment business strategies for comedy entertainers as well as speaking professionals.

For more information about Steve, please check out the About The Author section on this site.

For those of you who have never heard of Uncle Clyde’s Comedy Contest, it is the longest running stand-up comedy competition in the LA area (since 1997).

This SoCal comedy competition is held the Ice House comedy club in Pasadena and every week, 10 comedians compete for some cool prizes like:

>> $500 cash prize
>> A week long pro gig in the Ice House Main Room
>> Automatic entry into a Comedy festival

And the winner of the competition finals held on August 20, 2009 was 24 year old comedian Travon Free, a Killer Stand-up Comedy System comedian. Read the rest of this entry

About the Author/Founder of The Stand-up Comedy Professional

Steve Roye is the author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System and author of the content made available in the Comedy Pro Membership Program available on this site.

Over the past decade, Steve has established himself as a leading, globally recognized expert in the field of stand-up comedy material development, delivery and entertainment business strategies for comedy entertainers as well as speaking professionals.

For more information about Steve, please check out the About The Author section on this site.

It really makes me feel good when people succeed in the stand-up comedy arena.

I want to introduce you to a new comedian who is blazing the stand-up comedy trail in Austin, Texas.

Her name is Lashonda Lester and here is an email I got from her…

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Hi Steve,

My name is Lashonda Lester and I recently purchased some of your ebooks. I’m one of those people that had a really hard time “writing jokes”. I tried out a couple of books, but, naw they weren’t saying what I needed to hear.

In October 2008, I won my first stand-up comedy competition after being absent from the stage almost 8 years. I needed an easier way to prepare my act and found an article you wrote a while ago about what advice NOT to take.

I’m currently competing in the Funniest Person In Austin contest for the first time and I bought the Fast Start Guide to help me prepare and followed your advice exactly as you described it.

Happy to announce that Monday night, I advanced to the semi-finals in May!

Thank you sooo much for the stellar information and resources! I WILL be buying more of your products!

Lashonda Lester
Austin, TX

P.S. I counted 8-10 laughs per minute and I had a 7 minute set

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All I can say Lashonda is…

Thank you for your kind words and…

Don’t stop! Grab all the gusto you can. Or as said in the more colloquial vernacular…

You go girl!

So my question is this to everyone else:

What’s stopping YOU from dominating the stand-up comedy stage?

I will have another success story for you soon from an Australian lad named Mark Gladman who just took the plunge into full time, headlining comedy work after starting in 2005…

So stay tuned.

And get off your butt and go for your dreams!

Cheers,
Steve Roye
The Professor of Funny for Money

P.S. It took all of 13 minutes to grab the #1 position in Google for the term Lashonda Lester comedy with this blog post. So if you have a stand-up comedy success story, you might want to tell me about it.  :-)

About the Author/Founder of The Stand-up Comedy Professional

Steve Roye is the author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System and author of the content made available in the Comedy Pro Membership Program available on this site.

Over the past decade, Steve has established himself as a leading, globally recognized expert in the field of stand-up comedy material development, delivery and entertainment business strategies for comedy entertainers as well as speaking professionals.

For more information about Steve, please check out the About The Author section on this site.