Stand-up Comedy, part 2

The Stand-up Comedy Fast Start Guide

Review

Let me start by saying that there is no single secret, tool, or formula that will make you a successful comedian or speaker. But there are methods that allow you to harness the sense of humour you already possess. That plus a bit of effort.

I think it’s fair to say that every successful stand-up comedian has strategies that, in some way, allow them to deliver a hilarious act on stage.

Whether they are aware of it or not, successful stand-up comedians are usually applying
3 Essential Strategies to get the results they want on stage...

They are able to do the following:

1. Produce large quantities of hilarious comedy material in the shortest possible time.

2. Test, edit, and refine comedy material in the fewest performances possible.

3. Develop and maintain ultimate stage comfort.

This is a fairly basic plan for success and for developing a solid act as a professional stand-up comedian or speaker who incorporates comedy into speeches and presentations. I’m sure you’ll agree that if you have these bases covered, you have the greatest chance for success in either the comedy or speaking business idustry.

However, you must know how to get these strategies to work for you. The good news is, it can be done and there is a system that will work to help you accomplish your comedy goals as a comedian or speaker...

To get these strategies to work for you, you must utilize a customized version of each of these strategies that are tailored to your own unique sense of humour.

I'll be honest with you, no number of secrets will help you unless you orchestrate them into a specific cohesive system for delivering the results you want on stage. You need a fool-proof system for success that will really work for you and your own unique, individual sense of humour.

I stumbled across the website for the Stand-up Comedy Fast Start Guide and I debated whether to purchase the e-books as I already have countless books on writing and performing stand-up comedy. Being such “a student of comedy”, I’m a hard audience as I know and have tried the majority of approaches to writing out there. But sometimes you just have to move out your comfort zone and step off the precipice.

I have learnt more about the comedy writing and performing process since reading the "Fast Start Guide" than I have ever learnt anywhere else.

For my money the "Fast Start Guide" and the "Comedy Timing Secrets" bonus e-book are worth the cost alone. But you also get the very valuable "How to Read an Audience" e-book too. Although it is fair to say that comedy timing and the ability to read an audience comes with experience on stage. However, the information in both these e-books details exactly what you should be looking out for with an audience and what you can do to help you with your timing. It puts into words what others know instinctively and that’s got to be a good thing.

The thing I always worry about is if a guide such as this is going to explain to me why something is funny. You’ve probably heard the comparison of analyzing why a joke or routine is funny to dissecting a frog; a handful of people find it interesting but ultimately both the joke and the frog die. Well, I was pleased to discover that it doesn't do this at all.

The best thing for me about the Stand-up Comedy Fast Start Guide is that I’m passionate about the whole process again. I actually look forward to writing and I’ve never done that.