The Common Process You DON’T Want To Use
To the maximum extent possible, you want to avoid what I can only describe as “blind trial and error” in the process of developing and delivering your stand-up comedy routine. Here’s something that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt: The longer it takes a person to start making some progress and actually getting laughs on the stand-up comedy stage, the greater the likelihood that they will abandon trying to become a comedian. Usually, this has nothing to do with whether or not they have enough comedy talent. In most instances, it boils down to the fact they end up engaging in “blind trial and error” in order to try to develop and deliver a stand-up comedy act that gets ANY noteworthy laughs. A typical scenario of “blind trial and error” works something like this: The new comedian tries to “write” jokes The new comedian tries to get the jokes they have written on stage with little preparation or rehearsal in advance The stand-up comedy material that they “wrote” flops, generating few if any laughs The new comedian completely revises their stand-up comedy material without so much as a clue as to how to actually make it work better The new comedian goes back on stage and their new stand-up comedy material flops again The new comedian tries to become a different “character” in hopes that it is this aspect that is causing their stand-up comedy material to flop Continue reading The Common Process You DON’T Want To Use