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Rules for Stand-up Comedy

All the aspiring and amateurs stand-up comedians reading this article know their greatest struggle regarding stand-up comedy at the moment, it’s the right way to perform and learn it. If you ask all the successful stand-up comedians of all times, you will realize that you are not alone in this struggle. Almost every comedian who wishes to perform on stage in front of an audience, face these problems.
The actual ordeal is to be recognized as a stand-up comedian. As a general rule, you will not be recognized a stand-up comedian if you cannot get four laughs from your audience in a minute. Now many amateur comedians may think that this is easy, they talk fast, deliver punch lines quicker and get four laughs in no time. However, this is wrong idea.
Firstly, it’s very unwise to deliver a punch line quickly. Inappropriate delivery timing may cause the whole of your performance to collapse...

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Having a Sarcastic Sense of Humor

Having a sarcastic sense of humor can be both, a curse and a blessing. People are never sure if you are joking or serious and that is the real fun of it. Getting your friends confused as to when you are joking and when is really funny to watch. You can see them struggle to judge what’s really going on at that back of your mind. You are a matter of curiosity for them. The best comedians with a sarcastic sense of humor go for stand-up comedy because that is what suits their skills the most. The straight-faced delivery and dry cynicism will either leave everyone roaring with laughter or have them wondering what they missed.
If you want to develop a witty and sarcastic sense of humor, we have a few instructions for you below:
• Especially when performing stand-up comedy, make sure your delivery is in monotone, make it sound like you are talking to no one but yourself. This adds to the witty...

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The Comedy Styles of Russell Peters

I am sure that any one reading this article who is a stand up comedy fan must be very familiar with the name of Russell Peters. Russell Peters is a stand up comedian who belongs from Toronto, Canada. He has South-Asian roots and busy is touring the world and amazing audiences with his hilarious exploration of various races, including his own East Indian heritage.

Russell Peters has a very distinctive style of comedy. He tends to explore culture clashes and addresses the issues related to racism and intercultural relationships in his performances. Though he makes all these issues sound funny and entertaining, the main motive of Russell is to give birth to cultural tolerance through his audience. He discusses the intolerance related to races and ethnicity as well as the tolerances and how we can embrace our differences and celebrate our similarities. He tries to deliver a powerful...

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How to Learn Stand Up Comedy Faster

Stand up comedy is a genre of entertainment that requires a lot of precision, good ideas and luck of course. If you have a good sense of humor and can joke around with people comfortably in normal life then there is a fair chance that stand up comedy is the right thing for you.

In our today’s article we will tell you about a few useful and useless strategies related to stand up comedy and how you can learn it faster.

Body language, delivery styles and timing matter a lot when it comes to stand up comedy. The actions, voice expressions and movements make the comical content more intriguing for the audience. So it is a useless strategy to think that what seems funny on the paper will be funny on stage too. This is absolutely not true. On stage comedy requires movements and gestures that contribute to the act, not just the words. Thus, a stand up comedian should rely on his/her natural...

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Benefits of Using Humor

Humor is healthy for you and now we have researches to prove that. Apart from making your overall personality beautiful and attractive, humor has some underlying benefits as well. In a recent research on better communication by Fabio Sala at the Hay Group, following benefits of humor were discovered for the human beings:

*Better correspondence

*Decreases danger

*Avoids feedback

*Alleviates strain

*Boosts up your spirits

The executives who used humor more than the average one were surveyed and observed. They were taking bonuses and used humor often and we’re more successful than the average ones (17.8 times/hr vs. 7.5 times/hr). They used mostly positive humor but also negative one at times.

It is not necessary that humor is a key to success and to score bonuses, however it is at any rate a marker, maybe, of enthusiastic discernment.

Other studies by Clouse and Spurgeon has...

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One-Liners are the best type of jokes

One-Liners are a piece of our day by day lives. A few of us sound unintentionally interesting, on occasion, making individuals around us laugh. Due to these on-liner jokes, a normal individual laughs more than 38 times day by day. As of late, these One-Liner [http://www.laughfactory.com/jokes](Jokes) have gotten to be exceptionally famous among individuals, and they have succeeded the long entertaining stories, our older folks used to let us know.

These one-liner jokes are amazingly entertaining, and they make people set out for Case in point, “The hardest piece of my granddad’s passing was to make it resemble a misfortune”.

To make such a joke yourself, you have to comprehend few things.

Most importantly, there must be a setup. When you say that “The hardest partof my granddad’s demise”, audience or peruser expects warmth, yet you wind up saying the punch line that “to make it...

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Tips for making your first standup look

[http://www.laughfactory.com/](Stand up comedy) is not an easy task to do. There are a lot of things to consider before going up on stage. So after preparing your material and a lot of practice, you are ready to go onstage and make people laugh. But before going onstage, here are some tips for making your first stand up comedy look.
If you are a beginning stand up comedian and it’s your first time then it is highly recommended to get all the support you can. Bring some of your friend as audience, it will help you feel relaxed on stage and get more confident. After some performances like this, you will be able to do everything without your friends. But, if you are a good stand up comedian and really funny then you should be able to make anyone laugh, your friends or strangers.
It is obvious that if you are a beginner, you can be nervous onstage. But people don’t know that you are...

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USE OF PROPS IN STAND UP COMEDY

One of the secrets to doing impressive stand up comedy is wise and appropriate use of props to make your comedy act more influencing. When you use different interesting props in your act, it makes the audience laugh even louder. Select props that are easy to carry, light weight and small in size. Above all; choose props which are funny and can help you generate more laughter.

The audience reacts to visuals more quickly. That is why you have to flawless at your body movements while delivering the jokes because funny moves help a great deal to get the audience roll into big laughter. Similarly the use of funny props also instigates the crowd to burst into laughter. When you are using props, you are actually doubling the chances of getting a roar of laughter. This is because you not only sound funny but look funny too. You are indeed imposing a double laughter impact. This can only be...

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HOW CAN YOU GENERATE ORIGINAL COMEDY CONTENT?

If you wish to begin a career in stand up comedy and take classes for this purpose, you will know that almost every class tells you to write unique and original material. You can obviously not get on the stage and say whatever comes in your mind. That is not going to work at all. You need a well-written and well-rehearsed content for your act to become a hit. You have to implement all the possible ways you could to make your act look funnier than ever.
The question here arises how to generate quality content for your comedy act. New stand up comedians must know that it is actually the key moments in your life that can be used to create hilarious script for your act. First, decide the topic. For instance, you may talk about your first experience of attending a funeral or may be your first date. Think and come up with exciting themes for your act and then work out to make them as...

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Learn Comedy from the Famous TV Comedian Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby is one of the famous names in stand up comedy. He is the most loved television stars of America. He was born on July 12, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He got dropped out of Temple University after which he chose to become a Stand Up Comedians. His very first assignment was his role in I Spyseries from which he got fame as the first black actor to act in dramatic role on TV. He later started The Cosby Show in 1984, which brought down many racial barriers for blacks on TV.
The Cosby family had to see a really bad time. They were financially down and the family’s money stripped when his father started drinking heavily. Cosby lost his father and brother at an early age. His mother used to clean houses and he used to shine shoes when he was only 9 years old. He later got a job at a supermarket. Cosby learned in his childhood that humor can be a great way to make friends...

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