The Nervous Comic Podcast

As Tim explains, a common strategy among comedians is to introduce new material in the middle of their set. Hence our title for this episode, "The Middle of the Set Recordings".

Find out from Tim Kubasek why The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Comedy Writing by James Mendrinos is the perfect place to begin if you want to write comedy and how it is also useful if you are an experienced comedian and just want to up your game.

Canadian stand up comedian Tim Kubasek talks to you about his favorite subject, comedy. This episode has some fun surprises in its format.

In this episode:

Are you funny

"Are you funny? This is the overall question that hangs in the air when we go to a club or are doing a show. . . .It's a very hard question and it puts us under a lot of pressure. But hey, that's part of the game." - Tim Kubasek

Winning over the audience

"I always think of every audience as a new girlfriend that you have to impress in the time you're on stage. And that could be as short as ten to twenty minutes." - Tim Kubasek

Drunk Crowds

Tim coins a new term: "The third eye".

Hecklers

Humorous Road Stories

Bombing

Unexpected Pleasures of Playing Small Towns

In part 2 of this comedy interview (002, part 2), Canadian stand up comedian Tim Kubasek talks to Elaine Elrod about his career in comedy. Listen to part 1 (002, part 1) first.

Part 2 of the interview will be entertaining for all and especially encouraging and useful to anyone who wants to know how to become a stand up comedian. Tim starts off his advice by saying, "Get your thick skin ready." And he tells you just how to do that. This part of the interview has many humorous stories from Tim's career, including, you guessed it . . . the one about the onion rings.

Music excerpts featured in the podcast are from "Please Rock my House"

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In part 1 of this comedy interview (Episode 2, part 1), Canadian Stand Up comedian Tim Kubasek talks to Elaine Elrod about his career in comedy.

He tells us about his first comedy class, performing at Yuk Yuk's and the Comedy Factory comedy clubs in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and about the journey to becoming a good stand up comedian, comedy books, and how to deal with bombing on stage. In addition, he describes what it is like to come up with new comedy material, how he got his moniker "The Nervous Comic" and how he prepares to perform.

He tells some humorous stories about doing stand up comedy for children. He talks about the biggest sin in comedy, stealing someone else's material. And he explains how things that happen spontaneously on stage and in the audience can lead to new material. He speaks about the necessity for experimentation and sometimes failure when trying out and developing new material, and the heartache of losing your written material.

Finally, he talks about his influences, including the late Mike MacDonald, who he opened for at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium in Brandon, Manitoba.

This is a live comedy recording of Canadian stand up comedian Tim Kubasek performing at The Comedy Factory in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This show will give you a taste of Tim's brand of funny, clean but definitely adult comedy.