How to Create a Tight 5 Minute Set (in 5 Steps)

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[@HotBreathPod]

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[@user-bu2mn3js9v]

Start and end with your best jokes Perform with a lot of confidence 1 laugh every 20 seconds at least Transcribe your set and underline your punchlines Rehearse a lot and with distractions Get on the stage

[@johnokeeffe3096]

Rehearsing with distractions is an amazing bit of advice, so obvious yet I've never tried doing it!

[@HotBreathPod]

Thanks John it's super helpful!

[@rrrrrrrrrrrrram]

Love the final tip - a lot of new comedians want a How-To Be Funny guide, but are deadly afraid of the stage.

[@HotBreathPod]

Absolutely! Getting on stage is the most important part.

[@robertdais7569]

Great feedback to rehearse with distractions & to write out your jokes & highlight where punchlines expected! Appreciate this post!🎉

[@HotBreathPod]

Absolutely happy to help Robert.

[@SamBassComedy]

These are really great tips. I suck, but I don't really suck suck because I already do all this. I might suck a lot less in the future because of this.

[@HotBreathPod]

Comedy is a game of repetition. The more you do it the better you get. Struggling means you're trying which is half the battle!

[@HotBreathPod]

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[@billywalker5838]

This is great, I love it. Thanks very much

[@michaelsix9684]

very helpful info, thanks

[@ComedianBobbySutton]

Comedy is life! 🎤🥳🎤

[@ThisIsWheelLife]

I needed this!

[@GuitarTimeWithBillyC]

Great advice!

[@ComedianBobbySutton]

COMEDY IS LIFE!!! 🎤🥳🎤

[@Ben.Standup]

Thanks 🙏

[@andrewrtl]

These videos are a God send. I will be performing my first Amateur Night at a comedy club in a week so I'm doing my best to prepare and these videos have been super helpful!

[@earljenkins1705]

Good luck working on mine as well

[@markbeen5]

How was it

[@andrewrtl]

@@markbeen5 Pretty good for a first time. I'm one year in now and getting better:)

[@brendanvienne90]

Great tips!

[@ThisIsWheelLife]

I just joined your Facebook group the other day.

[@hamhead2765]

No. Don't rehearse when you're driving. Focus on driving. You might not make it to the gig you're rehearsing for. Love your channel ❤️

[@booth1906]

Lol was just thinking this

[@wheatontea]

This is sound advice Joel. I just did 6 minutes at a showcase at Zanies Rosemont. This is hard work what you are describing but it separates people who have success and people who won’t have success.

[@HotBreathPod]

Work ethic is the differentiator. Many people want to do comedy but few are willing to put in the work.

[@temkayemka6971]

thank you

[@dannyrm6498]

very proper advice

[@HotBreathPod]

Thanks Daniel! What was your favorite tip?

[@WarKoala233]

you the man

[@HotBreathPod]

Thanks Hot Breathiverse!

[@elidupre7487]

Ralphie May ... Behemoth

[@HotBreathPod]

He’s a legend for sure!

[@crystalcandiano1849]

This is great advice

[@HotBreathPod]

Thanks Crystal! What’s your favorite tip?

[@crystalcandiano1849]

Love how you wrote back! The part where you want a laugh every 20 sec. I only want to do in in front of an audience. I tried it 12 yrs ago ..got a standing ovation. Older & wiser now ; want to take it more serious since I have weekends off now. What is your Facebook page?

[@ComedianMoGreen]

If your jokes are based on things that actually happened in real life, you don't necessarily have to transcribe the entire joke in long hand form. The joke is something you actually experienced. The words will be embedded in heart and memory. I use bullet points to trigger said memories, so I don't have to transcribe. But that's just my method. Try to write jokes based on things you actually experienced. The comics that just make up shit sound mechanical and you can tell they are reciting a script.... you can't fake what you really went through.

[@SamBassComedy]

I do storytelling jokes, and I find it helpful to write it out to find ways to add punchlines in the story. Not like it's part of the story, but it adds to the value of the story and makes it funnier.

[@ComedianMoGreen]

@@SamBassComedy i find the funny by just talking it out over and over again on stage. The words that get more pops, consistently... I keep. Working it out. Funny tags will come. I go back , listen to the recording.. jot down the tags that hit. Long hand is form is to rigid and mechanical for me. I get married to the words, and its harder for me to edit because im thinking of the long hand script.. Again, if its based in your experience, it's written on your heart.

[@HotBreathPod]

Yeah my set lists are bullet points but I still enjoy transcribing for refinements in wording. That's what I love about comedy though. Everyone has their own unique process to achieve our shared goal of laughter!

[@ComedianMoGreen]

@@HotBreathPod definitely... for sure. I tried the long hand style early in my career, and it didn't work for me. But we all have our methods. I stil contend the best comedy comes from reality. With embellishments.

[@ComedianMoGreen]

@@HotBreathPod i have a bit about having a 3some with a 65 year old couple. Zero long hand.. My bullet point is: Senior Citizen 3some.... The bit is 4.5 min long, and all I wrote was the BULLET POINT.. but I tell the story virtually the same every time. A few tweaks on tags here and there. But I really experienced it. So I don't have to write it to remember. I learned that style from listening to Patrice O'Neal interviews. You don't really have to fully write what you actually lived ... That's just me though.

[@Jokenword]

I’ve been doing longer sets as of late... Gotta get back into doing tight 5s.. 🥴

[@HotBreathPod]

Absolutely! How long have you been in the comedy game?

[@Jokenword]

@@HotBreathPod 9 years, I come check out comedy tip videos every now and again just for motivation and refreshers...

[@HotBreathPod]

@@Jokenword Very niiice. We actually just launched a new 4 week course to help comics create a tight 5 minute set quickly. Let me know if that sounds helpful to you're joke writing.

[@ohtakihikari]

お疲れ～

[@tiltedcone5994]

You ran the light. #sadbois

[@HotBreathPod]

😂😂😂

[@ramoncorrea5716]

A lot of this is very similar to public speaking skills.

[@HotBreathPod]

For sure! There are a lot of parallels between the two. Do you do public speaking?

[@ramoncorrea5716]

@@HotBreathPod yes. I am in your FB group. Super excited to be a part!

[@HotBreathPod]

@@ramoncorrea5716 Absolutely welcome aboard!

[@SirBamBam404]

should you get to the funny or introduce yourself in a 5 min

[@HotBreathPod]

Get to the funny with personal material that shares your unique sense of humor to stand out from every other comic in the game.

[@angelamoe9559]

I want to feel confident doing a set.. my friends and fam heard the set so many times they don’t have any more laughter. When I do my set In front camera by myself… I feel weird … when no laughs I can’t get the cadence back

[@HotBreathPod]

Thanks for reaching out Angela. Have tested this set on stage yet?

[@jeromebulluck1233]

Where Facebook group

[@HotBreathPod]

facebook.com/groups/HotBreathComedyNetwork

[@BobbyBTV.]

are you on the floor or is your dog bed really high

[@HotBreathPod]

🤣🤣🤣 my dog is perched on the credenza

[@andrewcbuensalida]

Ricky Gervais please. And Conan O'Brien

[@kuldeepsinghlabana5819]

How we can become legend and increase our lpm up to 10 or 12

[@Billy420-69]

Rule of thumb is from the cold war days. If you saw a mushroom cloud and you could cover it with your thumb you would probably be safe from radiation.

[@pluckyfilms4240]

This is not true

[@Billy420-69]

@@pluckyfilms4240 You're right it's from Fallout: 4

[@sadhugoldratio]

@@Billy420-69 its actually a rudimentary way to gauge the size of the switch one should beat their wife with, the rule was that it was to be no bigger than the thumb

[@davidlanier2290]

Jim Gaffigan has a tight 5 with 45 laughs... Just saying.

[@Real_Boye]

I should do strong drugs?