#1
Posted: 7/20/07 at 11:47pm
What was your experience like? Positive or negative? Did you do it again?
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#2
Posted: 7/21/07 at 2:36am
Mine was mixed, it is EXTREMELY hard work, but the result is very good assuming you are good. It is really hard though and completely nerve wracking. I only did a short 15 minute thing as an opener for my school
#3
Posted: 7/21/07 at 6:43pm
Mr Roxy is a stand up comic....what do you mean he isn't?.....Then why does everyone laugh each time he stands up?
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#4
Posted: 7/21/07 at 7:02pm
I did stand-up for about a year six years ago. It started as a dare. I was, thankfully, very successful at it. I played a couple of the big comedy clubs in LA and NYC, and emceed a few gay prides. Then I got a show that I stayed with for over a year and never did it again. I have no desire to do it again - but, it was one of the best personal and professional growth experiences. I actually found it to be quite easy and stress-free. I got up and basically told true (but exaggerated) stories from my life. It was extremely liberating, even when they didn't laugh. I think everyone should try it once.
#5
Posted: 7/21/07 at 7:13pm
People keep trying to get me to do it, sort of to give my inane ramblings a venue. I don't know if I would do it. I'd be really really scared.
Maybe I'd try it out by doing it in a character or something. I realize each stand-up has to adopt a persona, but I'm talking about a purely fictional character doing stand-up.
Maybe I'd try it out by doing it in a character or something. I realize each stand-up has to adopt a persona, but I'm talking about a purely fictional character doing stand-up.
#6
Posted: 7/21/07 at 7:18pm
I say DO IT! It really was a life changing experience for me. I found it easier to NOT take on a persona, but really just be myself. It taught me to "put myself out there" in more ways then one. DO IT! DO IT!
#7
Posted: 7/21/07 at 7:25pm
I had a friend who was trying to get into stand-up and would constantly write down things I say for future use in his act. The most memorable of these instances was when I randomly said "Do you think there are rapists that want to pillow-talk afterwards?" and he tried to do it at some sort of family function.
#8
Posted: 7/22/07 at 12:22pm
They say it never happens this way, but my first ever open mic night I KILLED.
I came offstage and somebody who had been performing for a long time said. "You're not going to try to tell me that was your first time?"
I just smiled, neither confirming nor denying. Cuz how it be considered your "first time" if you've done it in your head a million times like Rupert Pupkin.
Oh, C_S, you can't get away with rapist/pillow talk stuff.
I came offstage and somebody who had been performing for a long time said. "You're not going to try to tell me that was your first time?"
I just smiled, neither confirming nor denying. Cuz how it be considered your "first time" if you've done it in your head a million times like Rupert Pupkin.
Oh, C_S, you can't get away with rapist/pillow talk stuff.
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#10
Posted: 7/22/07 at 11:37pm
Do you still do it?
Stand-up comedy, or rapist pillow-talk?
Stand-up comedy, or rapist pillow-talk?
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#11
Posted: 7/22/07 at 11:50pm
I think my problem is that every idea I come up with for a stand-up act is pretty much something that Andy Kaufman did much better back in the '70s-'80s.
#13
Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:51am
I did it once, at an open mic night at my place of employment (which, strangly enough, is a Coldstone Creamery). I was considering doing it for a couple weeks and had ideas for material, but I still wasn't sure if I was going to that night. But my friends convinced me, and while I hadn't ACTUALLY gone over my material, I went on. It wasn't the best, and I was pretty nervous, even if it was only for maybe ten people, most of who were my friends, but I got a few fair laughs. If I were to actually work on my stuff, I have a feeling I'd do pretty well, and I might in the future.
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#14
Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:51am
Always wanted to. Never will.
Just curious, though. . . where and how did you guys do your first act?
Just curious, though. . . where and how did you guys do your first act?
#15
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:03am
"done it in your head a million times like Rupert Pupkin."
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#16
Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:10am
And, alas, an apt analogy.
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#19
Posted: 4/5/08 at 2:15pm
I was wondering, has anyone taken classes at Upright Citizens Brigade?
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#20
Posted: 4/5/08 at 2:19pm
I really want to at some point in my life.
#21
Posted: 4/5/08 at 2:39pm
I was just wondering if anyone had gone there. I probably will go there sometime in the Fall. I have already taken some classes at HB Studio.
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#24
Posted: 5/26/09 at 12:09pm
My first open mic for stand-up was last week and it was a great experience. I had been writing for 2 years before I had the balls to get on stage and actually perform it. Before going on I tried my jokes out on a random co-worker so I could get used to speaking to an audience of strangers. Then I just did it. That's all you have to do. If you're interested in a great open mic in NY check out the Tuesday night Open Mic Contest at The Players Theatre.
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