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She didn't do that great, but then she got on the internet and started posting lots of questions on a comedy message board and those answers helped to ensure that the second time, she made people's faces explode with laughter.
Nice! lol.....not the character who played the mechanic Lowell, but rather "laughing out loud".Originally Posted by drieux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msksSBZKHU
I'm a comic. My website is mark-agee.com
Thanks for the answers and I still stand by my question. I'd love to hear experienced comics opinions.
John Bennerman
Wow, I sound like I have balls with the whole "...I still stand by my question." thingy.
sometimes there is such a thing as a stupid question
The stupidest question is the one that isn't asked.
Wow, you do sound like you have balls. In your mouth. Santana, you goober.
Do you think it's good to breathe in and process oxygen when you're on stage?
If I find myself feeling hungry, is food a good option to stop this?
If I develop flop-sweat on stage, would setting myself on fire help?
Hey, check me out. I'm a ghost.
This isn't as horrific a question as others have made it out to be. I've heard Jim Norton say that he has purposefully avoided as much Bill Hicks material as he can because he doesn't want his own material to be influenced by it. He tries to avoid new material by his contemporaries as well for the same reasons.
As a musician, I can relate. I stopped studying music history once I realized that all of my peers were just coming up with knockoffs of their favorite composers instead of trying to really create something new. Or, that's a completely normal phase for all creative people and I'm just a pretentious douche. Either way.
That is just Disco's way of saying he hates you, Bennerman.
When I'm on stage, or acting in real life, I always like to do my impersonation of "ASR". He may not be "legendary" yet, but IMHO he is an icon.
I sometimes go the whole route, y'know, with the "green clothes" thing,
the shortness of stature, and, the important and most fun part of my act, the chrconic masturbatory desire. This last one presents the most challenge of course. I mean, there are only so many hours in a day.
Last edited by MJEH; July 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM.
"Except for MJEH. He is an irredeemable fiend who should be locked up!!" - Alex Mac
I can actually say that ignoring legends can be beneficial. You don't need to listen to all those albums and watch all those specials in order to be a good comedian.
Blaze your own path and learn from your own mistakes and success.
Brandon Scott Wolf - comedy person/middle name abuser http://brandonscottwolf.blogspot.com/
I don't see an issue in watching great comedians. The important thing is understanding the impact. Understanding why what they did was so great. For example, Hicks might be one of my favorite comedians but there is no way I would try to imitate or emulate his act because it was uniquely his. The goal should be to make my act the same thing: mine.
hey i just wanted to let you know that i have your family and i want a million dollars ransom please
I am his family and I say put me back
I know this question will probably come off wrong, but here's what I've been struggling with right now:
A lot of times a "comedic persona" is discussed on AST. I know it's basically the angle you write your jokes from, and I know it's supposed to be something that comes with time. What I'd like to hear is if you guys developed yours as an extension of yourself, or as something separate, almost like a character?
EDIT:
and I don't mean you're a "character" necessarily, like Larry the Cable Guy, but if you ask a certain way and say things that aren't how you are offstage.
I think a great deal of it is usually an extension of yourself. A really distilled and pure extension of certain aspects of yourself.
I think that sometimes it is partly an extension of your joke writing process. I think I might have mentioned it before but I was lucky enough to do a show with both Tony V and Brian Kiley. Probably way before I was ready to do anything of the sort. I talked with Tony V after the show about the 80s Boom and comedy in general. He said there were two types of guys: People like Kiley who wrote really solid jokes and let the jokes dictate how they carried themselves onstage and guys like himself who let their personas affect the jokes they wrote.
I've been on stage 18 times now and I've killed twice, been average a bunch of times and bombed at least 3 times....two of the times I bombed were the last two times I got up there. I feel like such a creep looser. I'm headed to an open mic tonight.
Edit: I'd guess the thing to do would to be to look at my set and see if maybe I should change it around a bit and/or perhaps throw in a couple of new jokes I've been working on.
Last edited by John Bennerman; July 7, 2009 at 8:15 AM.
No offense, but I doubt you've killed yet.
You may have done well. You may have gotten laughs where you expected to get your laughs with the material you have now. That's not the same as killing.
It's a comedy truism that someone who brags about killing probably hasn't killed yet...and they won't know that until the time that they actually DO kill, and only then will they know...
Concentrate on doing well. Try to consistently do well. Aim for that.
pg--Or was that a confession of something else? I'm watching a Law & Order SVU marathon in my hotel room right now, so I'm temporarily inclined to believe that EVERYONE is capable of horrible, horrible things.--chicago (temporarily)
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