To learn stand-up comedy techniques and methodologies is one thing. To put that knowledge into action is a different story.

I’m going to reveal the biggest mistake most new comedians make-in some cases for years:

They don’t rehearse their stand-up comedy act until they are in front of an audience.

Don’t believe me? Just go to any comedy open mic in the country and watch what happens.

Failure to rehearse extensively before standing in front of an audience is not only the slowest way to learn stand-up comedy, it’s a formula for disaster.

Here are some powerful performance improvement guidelines you can use now:

1. For every 5 minutes of your comedy routine, you should devote a minimum of 20 minutes of rehearsal time.

Until you have your material completely tight and you are getting big and frequent laughs, you should try to rehearse daily.

2. You should rehearse your act out loud as if you were standing in front of an audience, using your natural body language, voice infection and tone as you rehearse your routine.

Now if you really want to learn stand-up comedy performance improvement, you will rehearse your stand-up comedy act with your head up, shoulders back and looking ahead (not down).

When you rehearse in this way, you are rehearsing in the natural posture of confidence. So when you rehearse, you are connecting your posture of confidence with your performance.

This posture of confidence will be noticed by your audience when you actually perform, provided you rehearse in that confidence posture.

This powerful technique applies to comedians who are using old school joke writing techniques as well as those using the more powerful topic driven stand-up strategies.

Learn stand-up comedy fast tip #1: You can rehearse your comedy material during everyday conversations provided that no one is aware you are presenting stand-up material.

If you tell people you want them to listen to part of your stand-up act, they will be on guard, looking for your punchlines and won’t laugh.

Learn stand-up comedy fast tip #2: Make sure you record your comedy act (video is best) for review after your performance. If you are serious about being a professional comedian, you will want to review each performance to make needed adjustments and tweeks before your next show.

Just keep this in mind:

In the beginning of your stand-up comedy career, stage time is at a premium and can be very difficult to obtain. Make the best use of your stage time by rehearsing extensively BEFORE the audience sees you.

By: Steve Roye

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For a person who has a real natural gift for being entertaining and memorable but is a beginner in the ways of turning that natural talent into a career by doing auditions and finding gig’s what would be the best way to go about gaining that experience in both comedy and acting?

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If you are considering a stand-up comedy career, then you are probably aware of open mic nights-where most new comedians are born (or hatched-I’m not sure).

I want to give you a few quick stand-up comedy tips that you can use now to help you prepare for your next open mic:

Stand-up Comedy Tip #1: Understand that it is your delivery that will give you the most laughter impact on stage-not how the words or sentences in your act read from a piece of paper or word processor.

However many people get completely stuck trying to write jokes the old school way instead of using some of the easier and more effective topic based techniques for developing big laugh comedy material that depend on delivery and presentation as opposed to “writing” jokes on paper.

In other words, you need to practice your stand-up comedy act extensively before an audience every sees you perform.

Stand-up Comedy Tip #2: Work out your stand-up comedy material in conversation before you take it on stage.

This is very easy to do provided that you DON’T tell anyone that you are actually delivering stand-up comedy material. I have personally worked out a ton of comedy material this way by just waiting for my turn to talk when with friends or family.

Stand-up Comedy Tip #3: Practice your stand-up comedy act extensively before you ever hit the comedy stage, keeping in mind that it is your delivery of your comedy material that will give you the most laughter power.

In order squeeze the most out of your open mic performances, you should record every single show that you do for performance evaluation-audio is fine, but video is much better.

If you are serious about commanding the stand-up comedy stage and need more information, check out the link in my resource box below.

By: Steve Roye

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I’ve always wanted to do standup comedy. I’m 16 now & I think now is a good time to start doing my own shows. Now I have no experience in it what so ever. I have nothing written down or anything but I do have ideas. If there is anyone with great experience with standup comedy I would really apreciate the help. thanks.

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I am looking to try stand up comedy. I have taken a workshop and am taking another workshop this fall. I have written some material and am looking for writing excesizes that will help create more ideas.

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I’ve been a comedy fan for all my adult life. I’ve seen so many different styles of comedians that I feel like I’m an expert in detecting a comedian who is consistently funny. From the early days of comedy (Jack Benny, for instance) to today’s headliners, nobody has reached the comedic level of Jerry Seinfeld. By virtually any measurement, he is the most successful comedian who ever lived.

The Seinfeld stand up comedy story is an interesting one.

Jerome Allen Seinfeld was born in April of 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Kalman Seinfeld, was of Galician Jewish background and owned a sign-making company. His mother, Betty, is of Syrian Jewish descent.

Seinfeld developed a serious interest in stand-up comedy in his college years, although he was considered the class clown all the way through school. After graduating from Queens College, he found himself at an open-mic night at New York City’s Catch a Rising Star. Fortunately for Jerry, he was noticed by the reigning king of comedy at the time, Rodney Dangerfield (another favorite comic of mine). Rodney had Jerry perform on one of his HBO specials, which started his ascent to eventual stardom.

In 1979, he had a very small recurring role on the Benson sitcom as “Frankie”, a mail delivery boy who had comedy routines that no one wanted to hear. Oddly enough he was fired from the show due to creative differences. It’s hard to comprehend today that anyone would fire Seinfeld from a TV show, but it actually happened. And it wasn’t handled very well. Nobody bothered to tell him he had been fired until he turned up for an episode read-through session and found that there was no script for him.

Of course Jerry was able to overcome this setback, and went on in 1981 to a highly successful appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The Seinfeld stand up comedy act had really impressed Carson, which led to regular Tonight Show appearances over the next several years.

By the end of the decade he and his pal, Larry David started development on a ground-breaking sitcom called the The Seinfeld Chronicles. Later the name would change to the moniker that we all recognize today: “Seinfeld”. They did this to avoid confusion with the short-lived teen sitcom called The Marshall Chronicles.

By its fourth season, “Seinfeld” had become the most popular and successful sitcom on American television. The Seinfeld stand up comedy machine had truly found its mark. The final episode aired in 1998, and the show has maintained its popularity with syndicated re-runs ever since.

Jerry’s post-sitcom career has continued to flourish, with regular appearances in Las Vegas, and in large comedy venues around the country. His focus has been live, standup comedy as opposed to venturing into films as many of his contemporaries have done (Tim Allen and Ray Romano, for example).

2010 has witnessed another milestone in the career of Jerry Seinfeld. He has introduced a new television series that will also prove to be breaking new ground. Jerry is the master of pushing the comedy envelope, and his latest TV effort is yet another example. It’s called the Marriage Ref, and stars Tom Papa, Natalie Morales, and of course Jerry himself. The premise involves real-life couples currently engaged in a conflict (and aren’t we all?). There is a three member panel made up of various celebrities who are showed both sides of the argument. These celebrities then discuss the merits of each participant and vote on their choice of the winner.

The initial reviews of the show were almost universally negative, with many bordering on nasty. Nevertheless, The Marriage Ref was renewed by NBC for another year. It’ll be interesting to see if Jerry can work his magic on this show, and I guess I wouldn’t bet against him. After all, “Seinfeld” was a slow starter in its first year, but was able to evolve into a ratings powerhouse in the ensuing years.

Hopefully The Marriage Ref can do the same.

If you ask me, if anybody can turn around a ratings disaster, its Jerry Seinfeld.

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Those people who take up stand up comedy as their profession always have one question in their minds. How to write stand up comedy jokes? This is a question asked by almost every amateur stand up comedian. This article will help you solve this question.

Take a paper and pen and start thinking of words that are important to you. Look up words around your family and friends. Secondly make these words your topics. Then think about some weird things you find about that word. Your emotions are attached with these words. Try phrasing these words in a funny way. Write 10 funny things about them. Now attach a gesture to the funny things you have noted about these jokes. This represents half about how to write stand up comedy jokes.

The most important thing a stand up comedy learner should know is that the gesture attached to your writings is the thing which makes people laugh. 80% of the laugh you receive on the joke you make is obtained from the gesture. The remaining 20% are on the content of your joke. After selecting the right gesture, act the whole joke in front of a mirror and if you laugh on that then the public will surely laugh. Now you should act out the performance in front of your friends to get the affirmation that you have made a good joke.

When learning how to write stand up comedy jokes, once you have made a joke record it, record the gesture of the joke, give more importance to the way you say the joke. Listen to it over and over, play it in different settings and among different people to be sure that your joke is funny. If any editing is required then make the corrections according to the comments of your listeners.

In my signature, you will find a review of a great resource that will help you prepare for a killer comedy act.

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As you are looking on the Internet for stand-up comedy tips…

Please be aware that the techniques and strategies offered in many stand-up comedy tips simply don’t work.

Let’s look at a prime example of one of the many inaccurate stand-up comedy tips you will find online:

You need to develop your own onstage character or persona. This may take many moths or even years to do.

Now if you want a more powerful stand-up comedy tip:

The absolute fastest path to successful stand-up comedy is to be able to apply your own unique sense of humor to ideas, topics and observations that you want to talk about on stage.

Stand-up comedy tips that you can find online should never take the place of common sense. Common sense dictates that if you are a naturally funny person in everyday life…

Then you already have a “persona” that works. The real trick is to give yourself permission to be the “persona” or character that you already are.

You DON’T need to develop a “special” persona for the stand-up comedy stage. Not only that, it doesn’t have to take years to command big laughs from an audience.

Here’s another example of some of the awful stand-up comedy tips I

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I am a funny person and I want to start doing stand up comedy. How do you go about writing stand up comedy? How do you put your stuff on paper so its not one of those had to be there jokes. Just about everybody I talk to says I am funny and think I should be a comedian. Do you know of anyway to pull jokes out of daily life and put them into a comedy skit? Know of any websites/things that will give me a better understanding on how to write comedy?

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I wanted to give a a shot at stand up comedy some night at an open mic…I was wondering if there which bar would be the best choice around Boston, MA. I am just a novice and wanted to give it a try for some fun

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