Saturday, June 19th, 2010 at
12:48 pm
If you really want to learn how to write a stand-up comedy routine from scratch very quickly…
Let me show you exactly how to develop a stand-up comedy routine starting with nothing more than a single news headline I ran across online (I’m serious—I didn’t even read the article).
I’m talking about a tight stand-up comedy routine that is 100% suitable for corporate or cruise ship work. That’s exactly what I have done in the Premium Article How To Write A Stand-up Comedy Routine From Scratch.
Here’s what you will discover in this Premium Article: 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.
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at
10:01 am
If you have read the Killer Stand-up Comedy System, you know that it is not the punchlines that make the set ups work, it is the set ups that make the punchlines work as you are trying to learn stand-up.
You also know that punchlines are personal reactions to information provided in the “set up” (I hate using the term set-up — it makes stand-up comedy seem so mechanical and contrived).
Take any street joke, for example…
The punchline of any joke is a spoken or physical “reaction” by one of the characters to information provided in the set-up of the joke.
The same thing applies to stand-up comedy– most all spoken word comedy for that matter. 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.