Wednesday, January 23, 2013
First Post!
This is my blog, in fact it is my first post. Despite what you might read, or might find in this blog, it is a blog about stand up comedy. Stand up comedy has an ebb and flow to it. The way the jokes are said, how they are said, the way the punch line is delivered. All of that is irreverent if it was never funny in the first place. So like any form of writing, it has a process that makes it easier to, well, write. This blog is devoted to me deepening my understanding of the writing process, to write my material on and to share my experiences as I preform my material. I picked stand up comedy because it's something I have always wanted to do but never just got out and done. I have been a fan of stand-up comedy since I was very young and I want to turn my love for stand up and making people laugh into something tangible. If I got paid to make people laugh, I would have my dream job. So I'm going to record my process and my findings. Hopeful this will help someone, that someone being me, with refining and making the process easier with a outline. Of course with the artistic part that comes with it, someones whole routine could be them walking up to the stage, grabbing the microphone and saying "get a refund" and leave. This is more for the standards and basics of writing stand-up.
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Nice introduction here. I think this is a great blogging idea; it's a lot like how comedians now try out new jokes on Twitter. Having a social opportunity to crack open the mystique of comedy will be enlightening for all of us.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, do you ever listen to Marc Marron's WTF podcast?
One note: did you mean "irrelevant"?