School Of Laughs

088 BEGINNING COMEDY QUESTIONS

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NEW AT COMEDY? YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING …

Do you have beginning comedy questions about stand-up? Are you just dipping your toes in the waters of writing and performing? Today I am joined by three current writing students in this “after school special”. They each bring forth a slew of excellent questions. I am willing to bet many of these have crossed your mind as well. Questions like …

  • How do you know that you wrote a joke no one has ever written before?
  • How can you protect your material from being stolen by open mic comics?
  • Writing faster than people can steal
  • Why cobbling material from other comics never really works
  • Should you listen to other comedians while you develop your own act?
  • Why you should watch comedians you don’t like
  • How to learn from other comedians
  • The “style trap” new comedian can fall into
  • Converting longer stories into stand-up jokes
  • Core sentences and how to isolate them from a story
  • Having someone recap your story so you know what details matter
  • Trying out material on friends and family
  • Do you need to hang out with comedians
  • Why you should hang out and build shows with comics who are 100% different
  • Finding a comedy scene when moving to a new town
  • Using the crowd as your personal Yellow Pages
  • Using google and Youtube to check your jokes
  • Malcom Gladwell’s 10,000 HOURS theory as it applies to comedians
  • Should you worry about performing the same set the following week at open mic?

    • And much, much more!

    If you have beginning comedy questions that need answered just send them in! Email them to [email protected]. I will answer them on the podcast or in a blog post.

    If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like this “after school special” …

    And frequetly asked questions are tackled on our YouTube channel:    

     

     

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