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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Josh Gondelman's new stand-up special, "People Pleaser," is streaming on Amazon Prime Video, and it was really funny. It was one of my two favorite specials of 2022 so far. Oh I used to gig with Josh! I need to check this out ASAP, that dude is a total sweetheart
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Coco13 posted:If I went to a theater for a stand-up act, I’m expecting to see someone that’s got a polished 60ish minutes that’s been pretty finely honed. At a comedy club, hopefully they have some funny bits they can rely on, but also they might be playing around with some things that they want to polish. My guess is that “a comedian at a theater” would be the draw over “this specific comedian at a theater” to a lot of people. Yeah a polished hour is way funnier but seeing a good comedian working poo poo out at an open mic or in a club is fascinating to me.
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BiggerBoat posted:I have a lot of respect for anyone that even tries it. I can be funny here and there and have been described as funny by some but it's always contextual and based on things that are happening naturally unless it's a joke I'm telling. For the life of me, the idea of having to be funny at exactly 8pm on a thursday night in front of a bunch of people expecting to laugh is really daunting. Like, regardless of your mood, what kind of day you had, how long you had to work poo poo out (like you said), the pressure of really needing to deliver no matter the circumstances or the environment has to be intimidating, if not completely terrifying. Hey, being funny on command is a skill, and like any skill you can train it and get better. Stand up is a bit different from the scenario you're afraid of, because people are there to laugh and be told jokes. It does take a while to get good, and you'll bomb a lot when you're starting out, but the good news about that is no one at that open mic will remember you bombing unless you say something heinously bigoted or something. And since you're probably not the type to pull that poo poo, guess what? You're already ahead of the bottom 30% of people at open mics! You can just keep building up jokes and your ability to tell them and one day you'll be able to say " hey I can kind of do this" and then a while later, if you stick with it, "Hey I can really do this!" All that said, hitting open mics is a lot of work, and standups as a culture of people can be a very fun hang or kind of a lot. Or both! Personally it's why I stick to sketch and script-writing, because I get overwhelmed pretty easily. But in any sub-culture, you can also find your people, and there are plenty of standups who are nice and who you'll want to spend time with. tl;dr You can do this if you want to, everyone else started out from where you are right now too, it's just a matter of how long they've been doing it. EDIT skeletronics posted:Better advice than mine Strange Cares fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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