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Comfort Level on Stage: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
How to Write Jokes: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Inspiration for Jokes: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Writer's Block: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Hit With the Crowd: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Bombing on Stage: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Bombing Off Stage: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Timing: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
How to Work the Crowd: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Repeating Jokes: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Creating Fresh Jokes: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Homework & Research: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Staying Calm: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Avoiding Bad Influences: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
How to Get Stage Time: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
How to Deal With Hecklers in Stand-Up Comedy
Avoid Cheap Laughs: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Avoid Being a Hack: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Stealing Material: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
Stage Fright: Stand-Up Comedy Tips
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Summary: Writer's block as a stand-up comic can be frightening, but working through ideas and using free-association writing techniques can open up new avenues of inspiration. Keep writing joke after joke, no matter their quality, with great tips from a television comic and performance instructor in this free video on stand-up comedy.
Chris Murphy has been a stand-up comedian for more than 15 years. He is a veteran of the New York City comedy circuit, appearing regularly at the Broadway Comedy Club and the New York...read more
"Hi! On behalf of Expert Village, this is Chris Murphy at the Broadway Comedy Club here in New York City and today I'm going to talk about how to become a stand up comic. Ah-ha, now, writing perspiration. This is what stops most comics from raising their standard and going to the next level. I think a lot of comics in general might have been good in school but they didn't like homework or a little bit of a rebel, and look at writing as homework or something. You can't look at it that way. I'll give you a perfect example of writing perspiration. Just keep moving the pen, I don't care if it sucks, just keep moving the pen. If it stinks, it doesn't matter, just move the pen, okay? Here is the example I was going to talk about. John Lennon, the Beatle. The song Nowhere Man- you know what that song's about? That's about him, not being able to write a song. He was laying in his bed, he was trying to crank out a song and he couldn't think of anything. And he said, "Ah, geez, I'm a real nowhere man" and it clicked. He wrote a song about not being able to write. Perfect example. Move the pen. I don't care, just move it. A block time everyday and do it. and if you don't feel like doing it, picture yourself bombing on stage because you didn't write. That will get you to write, my friend."
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