Stand up/Open Spot Set

Replaced the other clip with a 2minute clip instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7gJ4gJw3k

If you type 'clarence frank' into YouTube, my older ones are there.

Well done JD, your delivery has got soooo much better!

I'm looking forward to seeing your better video quality clips, as I've really enjoyed your comedy generally.

Cheers AJ, the definition is pretty crap, but, thanks a lot for seeing it, my next clip'll be 'Hi-Def' as the kids say x

Thanks Gary. I clicked on your website, pretty slick, and lots of potentially addictive and intresting articles on stuff I like.

It definitely was very 60s NASA footage, kept expecting you to do a slo-mo walk. Maybe next time, for the viewers at home?

Ha, yeah, it's the same lens they use on border partol usa when they film the mexicans caught up on the barb wire fences. I think he told me it was a children's camcorder, 9.99.

But anyway, a bit daft posting something so fuzzy in this day and age, my other clip is clear, so better to watch and it went well, although prob won't bother because, y'see, when I posted a thread about bombing and doing terrible it got 5 pages of responses within two days.. you post a thread about doing relatively well, it's not as intresting for people to see.

Don't be daft, if it's not that good people will be lining up to tell you so and if it is good people will be lining up to tell you that it wasn't actually that good, comedy is a lovely, lovely world

When I first started this hobby, I thought the main thing was to get the 'respect' of the other comedy hobbyists, but, about 35/40 in now I realise at venues that the crowds and paid headliners like some of my jokes, but these other open mic people are f'ckin demons.

One guy came up and said 'i saw your set, we would all just get away with doing that if we could' I said 'ok' the he took to the stage with a tie tied around his head and a prop bubble gun and began throwing smarties at the audience.

Yep, a lovely world

Quote: JackDaniels2 @ February 20 2012, 7:21 PM GMT

When I first started this hobby, I thought the main thing was to get the 'respect' of the other comedy hobbyists, but, about 35/40 in now I realise at venues that the crowds and paid headliners like some of my jokes, but these other open mic people are f'ckin demons.

One guy came up and said 'i saw your set, we would all just get away with doing that if we could' I said 'ok' the he took to the stage with a tie tied around his head and a prop bubble gun and began throwing smarties at the audience.

Yep, a lovely world

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Haha, brilliant, this sums up a lot of the comedy industry, not just the open spot circuit, telling "jokes" and making audiences laugh is almost seen as a lower form of comedy than weirding people out and "pushing the boundaries".

Comedians will moan about Michael McIntyre saying what he does is "easy" and "obvious" but if that's the case, why aren't they doing it and taking home £20M?

What is actually easy is to do "anti-comedy" which is laziness and lack of talent dressed up in pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectualism, doing "shock comedy" is easy, say that you "rape kids" or that "all women should have abortions", swear gratuitously, occasionally say the word "badger" for no apparent reason, don't bother writing any jokes that audiences will be comfortable with just make the whole experience of stand up one that is uncomfortable for 99% of people (it's okay though because the 1% generally contains the critics, TV commissioners, producers and other acts, people who will describe you as a "comedy pioneer" or "the next Bill Hicks" and will promote your career out of all proportion with your ability to make people laugh).

It amuses me that "crowd pleasing" is seen as a negative in stand up comedy and yet surely, within reason (i.e. without resorting to sexist, racist, homophobic, etc jokes), that is what the comic is supposed to do? We're not up there to make the other employees (i.e. the comics, the promoter, etc) laugh but the people who've spent their hard earned wages on a night of entertainment.

Apologies for the rant, but I recently did a gig in London and it was full of these sort of wankers, comics who want to "change comedy" but don't seem to want to entertain the audience in front of them.

Quote: Tony Cowards @ February 21 2012, 10:50 AM GMT

What is actually easy is to do BAD "anti-comedy"

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Is there any other kind?

Listened to your clip, I liked it very much. Keep it up.

Thanks.

I've since created my own self-congratulatory back-pat YouTube channel, so open mic-ers the world over can steal and remould my carefully crafted witticsms.

So now I'm one of those online cretins who uses the words 'check it out'

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrClarenceFrank?ob=0&feature=results_main

Then go visit my facebook page, then go follow my twitter, then hit my website www.me.me.me.com, then go and buy my unwanted possesions off ebay!

Fight the power and stay black!