IIRC some of you do stand up pretty regularly. I just performed for the first time and bombed pretty bad. I don't feel comfortable posting the video to the thread; but when I get it Id love for anyone who's done it before to give me some feedback. It was a small crowd but I could tell the crowd wasn't feeling it.
Fantastic. . . now the WORSE is behind you You have to go out there like Bernie Mac. . .. . I AIN'T SCARED OF YOUR MFERS!!!! Rocket River
Ooooh, I did stand up for a few years after college, tough gig, but you just have to grind it out, some audiences have a different personality, just be yourself COMMIT to your material and laugh at yourself when things bomb....you will be fine. DD
@Jontro jk... It's "Another Brother", but can't tag him for whatever reason. He's Billy D. Washington in real life.
Respect to you. I can't think of a tougher job than being a standup comedian. 100 times harder than being a musician.
Did you have planned material or was this just a "hey I've had a few drinks so here goes" kind of thing? I'm really jealous of amateur standups. They are brave people.
Oh for sure. I have a newfound appreciation for the pros after trying it myself. Yeah, plannned material. I was hoping I'd be able to riff/improv based on crowd reactions but they were crickets the whole time and I got nervous.
Never done a open mic, but there was a wonderful dive bar in sharpstown, the Cork/Court Club. Idiot Karaoke like you've never seen. I wrecked some stuff.
Who came up with the material? Perhaps, you could collaborate with friends to come up with a funnier set, Delivery is always key, Someone with better delivery might tell the same jokes and get laughs based on how they deliver the jokes. That said... The hard part is getting up there and you were able to do that.
It was a mix of some jokes I've been messing with for years and some newer stuff. Delivery was definitely off. I didn't drink anything before hand (trying to cut back) but I think I should have loosened up a bit. Some jokes might have been too inside baseball. I had one about adding dates/hook-ups on Linkedin and how social media makes everything more complicated. When I tell that one casually people either love it or it goes way over their heads. A friend of mine made a good point that some of my jokes may have been too LGBT focused. Some of the others who performed made some good jokes about being an immigrant, Muslim etc that also didn't get laughs...she suggested people may not know what's "acceptable" to laugh at. That seems weird to me, I don't think anything was in bad taste (save one guy who slid a miscarriage joke in at the end of his set). Definitely need to re-work my material. I've had a lot of frankly bizarre stuff happen to me. I think there's a big difference between being able to tell a funny story at a party versus going up on stage and working the crowd in a monologue. I really want to try improv; but that's usually very expensive.
