My first stand up gig

Hello
I posted some stand up material on here a month ago and performed my 1st gig last week.
Please would you be so kind as to have a look and let me know what you thought.
I know the performance needs a lot of work especially the moving around but which bits of the material did you like if any at all?

I did a second gig yesterday and although it was a tougher crowd I relaxed and actually stood still!!!

Thanks lovely critics

Ash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo-r3oKPJfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hey Dude.

I felt your nerves bro. I was in same predicament doing first gig last week!
At least you have yours recorded for posterity, mine was just a ten minute blur.
It was ok man. Thats all you can ask for a first gig in my opinion.

I don't think you wandered about on stage too much and there were enough gags to keep people going. Plus 10 mins is quite long for a first time, so well done.

I reckon theres a lesson here though, and its confirmed why I will NEVER invite friends & family to any of my future performances!!

Good luck fella
PC

My hat's off to you for getting up there and performing it. I didn't notice you moving around too much, that's the least important thing to 'fix'.

Great reference material. If I ever had the guts to do this I'd now be mercilessly cutting all the jokes that fell flat, or got groans, and writing new jokes. And I'd look at the parts of the video where your build-ups go on for too long.

Nice one!

I wouldn't worry about getting any feedback until you've done at least 10 gigs. You're just feeling your way on stage at the moment so you're not really going to be able to change anything until you are a bit more comfortable in front of an audience.

All I would say is make sure that you know your material inside out as that'll be one less thing to worry about, then you can concentrate on stage presence and appearing totally confident.

Thanks very much for the feedback guys.

Paul - Well done yourself for getting out there, it definitely takes some guts. Hope it all goes well for you. Try and video your next one, even as marker to look back on after 10 gigs and see how much you've improved.

Shoepie - thanks for the feedback again.

Wow Tony Cowards! I agree Tony, I think I'll try and do the same or a very similar set at least 10 times before changing anything too drastic. There are people who say you should do the same set with small tweaks for at least 10 shows before you really see what works and what doesn't. However some people say you should try a new set all the time.

I guess im somewhere in between. Some parts which I thought were the weakest 1. The opening 2. wind in the willows 3. my little boy 4. punchline to the reading, blackpool joke (no need to abuse london)

So I've got a totally new opening. Dropped wind in the willows. Re-written the little boy bit and changed the punchline to reading joke.

My thoughts are that if a gig is going well and time is not an issue I could try the wind in the willows or the old opening somewhere in the middle of my new set.

I'm just trying to get stage time now, maybe another gig before Christmas and then a few early in the new year.

I liked it, and I thought you looked confident!

I've been writing some stand-up stuff, and would love to give it a go one day, but at the moment, I'm simply not confident enough. I might write it up and see what you all think, but for the time being, I'm concentrating on my sitcom.

Good effort!

Hey Ash.

Dude. You make me shamed, such was the confidence of your 1st set compared to my second which I did last night and bombed man. nitemare.

I'd like to pass on a tip here too. DO NOT smoke a spliff two hours before you go on stage. and DO learn your set back to front. I winged it last night on bullet points and it did NOT work.

I'm glad theres a 10 gig moritorium coz otherwise I would have been kicked out of the comedians guild after last nights performance.

25 people looking at you thinking "What the f**k is he talking about" haha.

That was a whole new set of emotions ive had to struggle with today. Actually, its just one big squirmy excruciating embarrasing emotion, but Ive wrestled the f**ker to the ground now, so roll on next Thursday.

Good luck Ash, and soz for hijacking your thread!

ps. What else but stand-up rewards your lazy-assed lack of preparedness with the most humiliation of your life? And yet, within 24 hours you want to go back on?