In my previous article, How to Re-Write Jokes: Setups – Fix 2, I dissected the …
How to Re-Write Jokes: Setups – Fix 2
In my previous article, How to Re-Write Jokes: Setups – Fix 1, I showed how …
How to Re-Write Jokes: Setups – Fix 1
In this series of articles, How to Re-Write Jokes, I’ll demonstrate several ways of editing …
Stand-Up Comedy Tips: Give Offensive Material to a Character
In this blog, Stand-Up Comedy Tips: Give Offensive Material to a Character, I suggest that …
Make Sure to Setup the Setups
In this blog, Setups are More Than Setups, I’ll discuss how comedians rush through the …
Comedy Pros Don’t Write Prose
Comedy Pros Have the Freedom, One of the major errors made by beginner joke writers is they have a tendency to write flowery literate dialogue. It may read great, but when it coming out of the mouth of a comic it’s stiff, pretentious, and inauthentic.
The Silence of the Bombs
Bombing isn’t just the suffering part of being a comic. It’s the learning part. If you never bomb, you’ll never learn. From bombing you usually learn what doesn’t work, which is just as important as knowing what does.
Comic Timing – Discussing the Undiscussable
The only thing that’s certain about comic timing is that it’s essential to being funny. And that’s why we’re going to discuss it, not because it’ll be meaningful, but because it’ll be useful.
Be a Comedian – Tip 34: Never Make Fun of Someone’s Laugh
In this blog, Be a Comedian – Tip 34: Never Make Fun of Someone’s Laugh, I’ll explain how not to kill the laughter in the room.
Be a Comedian – Tip 33: Stop Using Comic’s Cliches – Part 3
In this blog, Be a Comedian – Tip 33: Stop Using Comic’s Clichés – Part 3, I’ll try to persuade you to greet the audience with something other than a question where you don’t care about the answer.
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