Tony Cowards
Thursday 22nd March 2012 11:39am
Wiltshire
1,762 posts
Have a look in the "Performance" section for plenty of advice, generally you need to stop pacing and look more confident, try to stop signposting jokes by moving the mic away from your mouth and clearly waiting for the laugh.
To be honest, I'm never quite sure what new acts hope to achieve by posting up videos of their early gigs, when you are new you just need to gig as much as you can, you improve through experience, by all means video yourself and watch it back to learn what you need to improve but showing the world your initial gigs seems counterproductive to me.
Get out there and gig, gig, gig, would be my advice and try to gig at quality comedy nights, it's easy to become a big fish on the open mic circuit but measure yourself up against top, top headliners, that's who you should be aiming to be as good as.
Lastly the "fat people, they've enough on their plates" joke is very similar to one of Jimmy Carr's or possibly a Gary Delaney gag, definitely heard it before.