For decades, comedians have been promoting their own stand-up comedy shows for stage time and profit.
And I will be the first to tell you that most comedians who promote their own shows really don’t have a clue about how to promote a stand-up comedy show effectively.
Let me provide you some basic information about show promotion that is worthy of consideration before you attempt to promote your first stand-up comedy show:
1. Identify your talent pool. The quality of any stand-up comedy show is directly related to the quality of performers you are able to hire for your show. 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.
Writer-director-performer Louis C.K. brings his no-holds-barred standup comedy style to this cable special, proffering uncomfortable observations about his life as a guy, a husband, and a father.
Things start very well with a treatise on the proper use of the word “faggot,” which should never, according to C.K., be used as a derogatory term for gay men, but serves as a catch-all insult for everyone and everything else.
Also covered is the myth that drinking milk will replenish a man’s vital bodily fluids during marathon sex, a subject that somehow segues into C.K.’s ambiguous admission about the fate of any housecat foolish enough to watch him being intimate.
Less interesting is a diatribe about the comedian’s collision with a deer on the road, and an overlong bit about the frustrations of fatherhood, including fantasies of extreme tough love with small children. The best material arrives at the end, when wisdom seeps into C.K.’s epiphany about arriving at an (more…)
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.
I have noticed for decades now that there appears to be an accepted notion that public speaking and stand-up comedy are two very separate and distinct arenas when it comes to generating laughter from and audience.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. If you are involved with public speaking and you cause an audience to laugh, you are using stand-up comedy mechanics—the same mechanics that are also used when causing laughter to happen in a casual conversation.
Hint: If you are giving a speech or presentation and your audience members are sleeping, playing games on their cell phones or are otherwise disengaged, that’s an indication that YOU need to make some adjustments. 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.