A Deep Dive Into Stand Up Comedy.

[@GPMComedy]

Great video! I’m just shy of the golden 100 performances, and this is just as helpful now as it would be when starting out.

[@LetsTalkComedy]

Thanks for commenting and massive congrats on the 100 gig milestone. No doubt a lot of hard work, bombs and successes were achieved throughout. I made a video on what to expect/ what you have achieved at the 100 gig landmark. You can check it out here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIqzm42Jat6bjpo Looking forward to hearing how gig 100 goes. Drop back and let us know.

[@Ken-to1ck]

i did my first stand up set on sunday, and i crushed! i’m gonna do more on the 11th and it’s all cause of your videos!! i appreciate you man

[@NetroyTibovitch]

i bet it was bad

[@LetsTalkComedy]

@Ken-to1ck, Fantastic news. Definitely not all cause of my videos. I just gave a few little tips, you did this. Thanks for commenting.

[@LetsTalkComedy]

@NetroyTibovitch - Not as bad as The New York Rangers! Where's your set?

[@frankbarber601]

Let’s go!!! Congrats

[@mikestratton78]

I’m at the open mic level now and this is SUPER HELPFUL. Thank you for sharing!

[@LetsTalkComedy]

Really appreciate that buddy, thanks for commenting.

[@mccallajokes]

I'm closing in on 5 years and am close to moving beyond open mics (in America)... I've found the practice of telling your jokes into a microphone with others in the room (listening or not) is so helpful to getting comfortable on stage... audience response is secondary or even tertiary at an open mic and. .. let it be said - you can't bomb at an open mic! - "we're talkin about practice" - AI

[@mccallajokes]

I've also written jokes i thought were funny and midway through telling them into a microphone at a venue realized they were terrible... didn't even need audience response to tell me i just knew immediately

[@LetsTalkComedy]

Yes, very true. However, there is a time when the jokes should start to work. I agree completely, at the beginning it's all about just experiencing the sensations that come with performing live, getting used to them and becoming comfortable with them. Once that's done then the focus should be on entertainment...which offers lots of questions. How am I, or my jokes being perceived, delivery, pacing, timing and everything in between

[@mccallajokes]

@@LetsTalkComedy oh they're workin now! 😊... and I'm starting to layer in your recommended performance tactics to anchor the audience and turn them into one entity.... things starting to click

[@LetsTalkComedy]

@@mccallajokes Love hearing it buddy. Brilliant stuff

[@ellelusina1993]

My first open mic is tomorrow night, so this is very timely. :)

[@LetsTalkComedy]

Brilliant to hear it. Have a blast. Drop back and let us know how it goes.

[@ellelusina1993]

@@LetsTalkComedy Had a blast and did pretty well. Thank you for the videos, definitely helped encourage me to learn my set and leave my notes behind. 5 minutes goes fast!

[@LetsTalkComedy]

@@ellelusina1993 Brilliant work. Yes, indeed 5 minutes does fly back, as a consistent over runner I can agree on that!

[@frankbarber601]

Let’s go congrats!!!

[@frankbarber601]

Let’s go!!! Hope it went well!!!

[@shawnaanderson7142]

These videos are super helpful thank you so much! Do you have any videos yet about developing our stand up persona? This is something I’m struggling with currently! I’d like to ask other open mic comics around me their opinion of my on stage persona, but I’ve not done so yet 😬

[@enikocsaszar2874]

I have done a few open mics, and I realised pretty quickly that I have as I loke to call it a sitcom- humour, not a stand-up-humour, which makes it really hard to write jokes. I can come up with funny things in the moment, but those stories are either not funny without a LOT of context, or I simply can't tell them well. Do you have any tips besides practicing? (Because I'm already doing that😂)

[@frankbarber601]

So a lot of my friends I started getting into their background and finding out about their ancestors …who could you be related to? what nationalities are in your bloodline? Have you now or ever been related to someone famous? One of my friends… found out she was half Jewish and half German.… but can you imagine that half German half Jewish… and before you start thinking, I’m crazy …. I know there are tens of thousands half Jewish half Germans just like there’s tens of thousands of half of halves of all races.. but when we’re talking about our ancestors… the Germans and the Jewish people don’t have the best past… one group decided to enslave and kill the other group… that would make for some very odd family reunions… So I said, what the hell!! They send you this kit, you send back DNA…. And a few weeks later you get the results… very much like a covid test except you can’t die from the results….I found out I was 25% Irish…as a kid I always had a fascination for Lucky Charms… so this starting to make sense now…as an adult I know how to handle my drinks and have great taste in beers… Light starts to go off in my brain…I’m a respectful person on unless provoked… check!!! Totally Irish!!! I’m am also an honest, hard-working person that believes, and takes pride in who I am and where I came from and who I call family…. Irish beliefs all day! Check!! The Irish help build the American we are standing in… the Irish migrated to the US in the early 1800s looking for opportunity looking for true freedom… they continued to migrate into the early 1900s where they helped build some of our biggest cities New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Ohio… their heritage is part of the bedrock of what makes America !!America… a lot of that I got from Wikipedia, but it doesn’t negate the fact that being 25% Irish is …pretty cool…..I also found out I was 15% Japanese… “I think im going Japanese .,I think I’m going Japanese I really think so ”!!!… but I have a very interesting ninja joke that confirms my past thoughts on thinking I am Japanese.. but I’ll save that for another time Ok this took like 5 mins to write first draft plus a min looking up a few obvious facts… I want to story tell without losing the audience in this one… but also maybe giving some knowledge, without losing them… just first draft and once again great video … any feedback would help I’m so new at this.. and just want my jokes out but so not ready for any stage

[@LetsTalkComedy]

Wow... you're more proud of being Irish than I am!!! You wrote at the end that you're not ready for any stage. The stage is exactly what you need. You've written lots of jokes for me to critique, but that's not what you need. If stand-up comedy is what you want to pursue, then you need to start performing onstage as soon as possible.