Hi All,
Please see the link below which is my first draft of a stand up routine that I am planning to perform at the end of next month. I would be very grateful for your feed back regarding this. i.e. what works (if any) and what doesn't where I can improve and also if you have any pointers for delivery, although it was difficult performing with no one there so I'll be doing this at a later date.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzZrtxvKAGo
Many thanks in advance,
Jason.
Liked LEGO,M25. Exorcising was ok-ish. 'Hand me down' showed promise. 'Girlfriend / Wedding' didn't do much for me.
But hey, what do I know.
Thanks for the Feed back park bench, It's good to here what works for you and what doesn't it's a work in progress so I'd sooner find out now rather than totally bomb on the night. What did you think of the delivery and did you think there were other areas for improvement?
I see that you are also on the same path, have you done any open spots yet or are you still in the planning stages?
Still in the planning stage. I don't want to get up in front of anyone unless I know I'm in with a chance of making it out alive. I'm currently working on increasing my number of gags, and as they group together, by subject, I should be able to come up with the 5 to 10 minutes of linked material I need. Think it's going to take a bit of practice to lose some of my 'erms' and 'ers'. I'm finding that doing puns on Twitter is helping me with material, as I seem to come up with ones to develop and keep for myself.
Oops. To busy talking about myself. I think your delivery is heading in the right direction. That's one think, I guess, that will take time to perfect. I think your performance seemed to run out of gas. I'm led to believe, all the content should be is set-up & punchline. Dump the rest.
Hi Park bench,
Thanks for the advice, I might have to give the twitter route a go but, do you not worry about people using your material from twitter? I'd agree with you about the performance, looking back over my routine I would agree that the latter half is weaker so I think I'll probably drop most of that and work on the bits that are OK.
Have you got any recordings that you have done yet at all or any jokes that you have posted on here so far, they'd be interesting to see.
I wish you well with your comedy and hope you get out soon, I'm looking to get out by the end of July and then just develop as I go.
Thanks again for the advice, speak soon,
Jason.
I've put a couple of clips up on YouTube. Search for parkbench66. As for twitter, I tend to put my throwaway jokes on there and keep the ones I think are good enough for stand-up to myself (although I do run them by the odd friend).
The YouTube clips are extremely unpolished, but you have to start somewhere. I did the funny in 15 seconds clip for a BBC3 comp then thought I could do a bit better. Working on another stand-up clip now, which I intend to improve my delivery (and the audio quality) on.
Quote: Park Bench @ May 30 2011, 11:40 AM BSTI've put a couple of clips up on YouTube. Search for parkbench66. As for twitter, I tend to put my throwaway jokes on there and keep the ones I think are good enough for stand-up to myself (although I do run them by the odd friend).
The YouTube clips are extremely unpolished, but you have to start somewhere. I did the funny in 15 seconds clip for a BBC3 comp then thought I could do a bit better. Working on another stand-up clip now, which I intend to improve my delivery (and the audio quality) on.
The one usual essential for budding comics, an odd friend. The odder the better!
To original poster, got a good bit of work to go yet I think, but its always practice that makes us better. 