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The very best stand-up comedy tips on the planet for new comedians!
The very best stand-up comedy tips on the planet for new comedians!
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Excellent points: too much material, lack of preparation, nervousness/adrenalin, and lack of confidence in your material can cause you to barrel through it and not allow people time to laugh. It would be hard for me to pick which one is the biggest reason. All four are able and willing to fight against your cause of making people laugh. Though I do think lack of preparation and lack of confidence in your material goes hand-in-hand. Prepare enough material (but if you have a lot please save some for another time). As you throughly prepare, you should have confidence in your material. Three out of the four you as the comedian have complete control over. (Nervousness not as much control. But knowing your material inside and out could help some with that problem as well.) Really it’s 3.5 out of 4 you have control over.
the big problem with paying someone else to make up jokes for you, even if the person is the most rich and famous comedian in the universe, is that comedy is all about YOUR personality. So, if you’re annoyed by a certain advert, you can’t get someone else t write a joke about how annoying that advert is, because they’re not annoyed by it. So instead, they make up a joke about how annoying a politician is. But, you like that politician, so when you say the joke, it all sounds wrong and you give up.
I find that for people that have a natural comedy talent (I define natural comedy talent as the continuous unintended practice of comedy at an early age) should already have the perfect comedy timing. Therefore bad timing shows a sign of poor talent since most talented comedians should have a sense of when the laughs occur.