Anyone ever done stand up comedy at an open mic night?



I performed live in front of audience (not stand up comedy though - something requiring similar skills).

The worst thing you could do is getting drunk. While you might be sharp and funny while drunk with friends it won't work the same on stage.

Get yourself in good mood before the show (natural jokes with friends etc). You will move from table to stage being on the right mode straight away.

Become likeable. If people like you from the first second it will be easier to win them over. First impression is sooo important.

Don't get distracted with thoughts like "how do I look now", "how do I sound on the mic". Focus but don't try to hard.

And finally enjoy your time. Being live on stage and winning crowd is just great.
 
tomaszjot said:
I performed live in front of audience (not stand up comedy though - something requiring similar skills).
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Some of the examples are a bit cheesy, but the structure of why things work is sound.
 
I enjoy it. The first few times are pretty nerve racking, but it all goes away once you start talking. Even if you don't get any laughs it's really not that bad at all. I'd recommend talking about something that at least interests you/you think is funny, but is also a relate-able experience.

Also write your jokes down and keep them short (like 35-100 words short). You can tell when people aren't prepared because they'll start talking, but won't actually be saying anything.
 
medicalhumor said:
You already took all 3 of my leads, does it get any more satisfying than that?
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In 1997 you've destroyed the life of my father. I remember you - merciless marketer taking best performing landers out of our Gypsy community. I remember your eyes - cold, shark-like. I remember you sending fraud leads to my father's Gypsy Payday Loans website, ruining his almost-legit business. I remember that day I looked into your eyes when you were driving away in you pimped Fiat Punto and I promised to myself one day I will pay you back.

3 leads is just a beginning. Yes, I'm after all of your 12 leads/month.
 
my brother and I did this a few years ago, but we did an Andy Kaufman style bit that only 1-2 people out of 50 or so thought was funny.

My brother is 6'5 280 lbs and was pretending to be my caregiver. I of course was in a wheelchair pretending to be retarded.

We'd been at the club for an hour before our turn and people had seen my brother blow up in anger at me, with a couple of people actually coming to my defense. (leave him alone! can't you see he's scared?)

When we got on stage, my brother told a couple of dumb jokes to piss people off, and then turned his anger at their response on me. It ended with me falling out of my wheelchair and a couple of bros threatening to kick my brother's ass.

Someone also called the cops, and I had to come out of character eventually, which made people even more mad.



Obviously much funnier for us than the crowd.
 
tomaszjot said:
In 1997 you've destroyed the life of my father. I remember you - merciless marketer taking best performing landers out of our Gypsy community. I remember your eyes - cold, shark-like. I remember you sending fraud leads to my father's Gypsy Payday Loans website, ruining his almost-legit business. I remember that day I looked into your eyes when you were driving away in you pimped Fiat Punto and I promised to myself one day I will pay you back.

3 leads is just a beginning. Yes, I'm after all of your 12 leads/month.
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GYÖRGY MILOSH PVETROVICH WAS YOUR FATHER??? I had no idea that son of a goat was your father. And I'll have you know, that was no Fiat Punto. It was a 1977 Fiat Fiorino with Naugahyde seat covers. No more landers for you, I guarantee you son of a son of a goat!!!
 
wat__ said:
my brother and I did this a few years ago, but we did an Andy Kaufman style bit that only 1-2 people out of 50 or so thought was funny.

My brother is 6'5 280 lbs and was pretending to be my caregiver. I of course was in a wheelchair pretending to be retarded.

We'd been at the club for an hour before our turn and people had seen my brother blow up in anger at me, with a couple of people actually coming to my defense. (leave him alone! can't you see he's scared?)

When we got on stage, my brother told a couple of dumb jokes to piss people off, and then turned his anger at their response on me. It ended with me falling out of my wheelchair and a couple of bros threatening to kick my brother's ass.

Someone also called the cops, and I had to come out of character eventually, which made people even more mad.



Obviously much funnier for us than the crowd.
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I wish I would have seen that. I would have been loling my ass off. To bad the average iq of the crowd was about 50.

OP:

It takes balls to get up and preform in front of a crowd. If you've never done it before it'll be kinda scary at first, but the more you do it the easier it gets. If you bomb don't take it personally, because in all honesty you'll probably be bad at it for a long time. If it's something you want to pursue as a hobby then take stefanies advice to heart. One of two things will happen: you'll get better or you'll never progress. If you never progress find a new hobby.
 
tomaszjot said:
In 1997 you've destroyed the life of my father. I remember you - merciless marketer taking best performing landers out of our Gypsy community. I remember your eyes - cold, shark-like. I remember you sending fraud leads to my father's Gypsy Payday Loans website, ruining his almost-legit business. I remember that day I looked into your eyes when you were driving away in you pimped Fiat Punto and I promised to myself one day I will pay you back.

3 leads is just a beginning. Yes, I'm after all of your 12 leads/month.
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My name is inigo montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.
 
medicalhumor said:
GYÖRGY MILOSH PVETROVICH WAS YOUR FATHER??? I had no idea that son of a goat was your father. And I'll have you know, that was no Fiat Punto. It was a 1977 Fiat Fiorino with Naugahyde seat covers. No more landers for you, I guarantee you son of a son of a goat!!!
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Don't ever come again for your morning glass of goat milk! Grandma said you will get none.

She said exactly "neahhh, neahhh bhhaaa medicalhumor".

Fuck you STS, I'm procrastinating again.
 
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