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

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