If someone says "you're actually really good" rather than "you're really good", they're not actually saying you're good. They're just saying you're not as shit as they were expecting you to be.
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If someone says "you're actually really good" rather than "you're really good", they're not actually saying you're good. They're just saying you're not as shit as they were expecting you to be.
The jokes is probably the easiest part. Crafting routines that actually flow sounds like where the real craft is. And the delivery.
Just don't over-craft. You don't need to meticulously plan it, otherwise when it doesn't go to plan you'll shit yourself. If you can't roll with the punches and read the crowd, you shouldn't be up there.
This sounds like when you’re a kid and think you’d rock up at Old Trafford and run rings around everyone :D
Talk about over estimating yourself.
The thing is, people have a lot more inbuilt good will when it comes to wedding speeches etc. At all the weddings I've been to there's a palpable atmosphere of people just wishing it isn't going to be an uncomfortable cringe-fest, and it has to be particularly shit to not get laughs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
You will get a few sympathy laughs at the more good natured studenty open mic nights, cus the audience is largely the mates of the performers. It absolutely isn't like that at most "proper" open mic events from my experiences. If you're not being facetious, and genuinely think being a stand-up would be easy based on those two things, you're being a bit daft.
This is exactly correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Go on then, explain Sarah Millican.
Well it was a mixture, plenty of people were genuinely impressed. The former was mostly mates being begrudgingly complimentary to not get his head too big, myself included.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Wow you're being serious. Err, she's got broad appeal cus she does basic, relatable material, has plenty of charisma, has spent years working on her craft and like most mainstream successes in any field, got a bit of luck with right place right time. Duh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
I think Coldplay are shit but it doesn't mean I reckon I could be a rockstar cus I played a few songs at an open mic once and didn't get bottled off the stage.
I said stand up wouldn't be difficult, I didn't say it'd be easy to reach the top. Just like playing guitar and writing songs isn't difficult.
Ok, if you mean it wouldn't be difficult to do stand-up, if only a few little five minute open mic sets and not be totally shit, yeah I'm with you and apologies for misunderstanding. If you think actually BEING a stand-up would be easy, I think you're mental
Yeah, getting paid anything more than free drinks would be difficult and probably require some cock-sucking as well as selling your soul.
Or supporting Michael Macintyre. I can't think of anything worse.
Silly accent. They all have them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
Actually, fuck it, here's one of his long forgotten youtube videos, just to give a bit of context, with the proviso that this was absolutely not his "main project". Maybe it's shite, whatevz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
https://youtu.be/xKPTQbssS_0
My friend's estranged wife is six years into her stand-up career, and, even though she has a degree of name recognition and gets booked on the undercard to some pretty big names, she still doesn't earn enough from it to even really cover pursuing it. That could be her gimmick though. If they can't get her they can just book one of the million other women ranting about anti-depressants and abusive relationships (which is where the real prize is for any older men lurking around the comedy circuit, because there appears to be some pretty fine young women around with no self-esteem for anyone with a hot tub).
An insane amount of the stand up I witnessed was about anti-depressants or was anti-men, but that probably sums Brighton up pretty well.
Horror and erotica (lol) I've been published before. The kinda shit I post on here is at odds with how I generally write.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Lol, that doesn't surprise me. The #controversial Aussie comic Brendan Burns was one of the commentators for the wrestling show they used to do every year at Edinburgh (where a combo of comics and local indie wrestlers do sort of royal rumble esque match - James acaster got absolutely twatted with a baking tray), and at one point he yelled, apropos of nothing"GUESS I CAN'T WIN THE FUCKING PERRIER UNLESS I DO A FUCKING DEAD DAD SHOW". An absolutely fair moan to have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
As much as I'm a #teamsensitive lefty wuss, and think that the more confessional, storytelling comedy shows can be great, even I get pissed off with the amount of that shit. The last mixed bill I went to had six acts and a compere, and 4 of them talked at length about their mental health. Like, shut up.
I managed 1 minute and 42 seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
That's a disaster.
His 'main project' was this
:D
Lord Jerrington has 79 more subscribers.
:moop:
i messaged him telling him the welsh weekly stuff has aged well, and he told me "it's a testament to my poor character development, it's basically just Alan Parker urban warrior mixed with some absolute bollocks. And it doesn't make any sense."
maybe i just have really fucking shit taste :lol:
I went to Uni with this guy. I still have him on Facebook, but we haven't spoken in 10 years. His sister was in the last series of Undatables as well.
https://youtu.be/i1ZvpQaEBBA
Yeah lad... In friends. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Your stand-up is writing itself. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
that would be a crushing insult from someone who actually had any :charm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
My mate has been trying to crack into the comedy circuit for a while and now doing more feature films like this one : https://sheffieldshorts.com/watch-films/tick-tick-tick/
https://youtu.be/7QOCfxcR6fY
This one is decent.
Is it?
Maybe.
I'd rather he cut that down to five minutes.
Including a 4 and a half minute ad for something.
I think it's important to remember that TTH isn't an important crowd to win over on the road to being Sarah Millican.
Yeah, there's a lot of effort gone into that, bless him.
I had no idea youtube was such a pit of despair.
He did do it about 10 years ago so I think he's progressed a little.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
His newer stuff does seem more polished.
DS, could you link us to your horror? Wouldn’t mind giving it a go.
Oh, it is. It really fucking is.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-V-f9inLoo
This is really promising. None of the obstacles posed in this thread are actually such when you think about them.
Not saying it’s easy, but isn’t that hard.
Counterpoint: the woman who wrote Fifty Shades of Gray was just writing erotic Twilight fanfiction and spawned an empire of books and films.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
I've sketched out the first episode of the sitcom. It's gold. Need to fully script it now, which will take time.
Target: End of July.
JK Rowling is another. The books are unoriginal badly written crap that got roundly rejected and then made her a billionaire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
Don, wanna be in the sitcom as a character?
It's a while ago, the zine and my copies no longer exist. I'll link you up with the next thing I write though. Only got back into it the past few months.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
DS, wanna help me the format of a screenplay next week?
Yeah can do mate. Chuck us a PM as/when.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah