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 as the audience might not understand what you are trying to tell them so it will not be funny. Give your punch lines an appropriate time frame to sink in. If your delivery is too abrupt, your audience will not understand the essence of the joke and if you drag the jokes too much, the audience will get bored. In both situations, your joke will lose its impact.
Following are a few simple rules that will help you in prepping for your stand-up comedy:
1. Keep a recording of your performance. You can perform in from of your friends or family before performing for a proper audience. When you hear your audio recording or see your video later, you can easily observe your strengths and weaknesses and at what point you got the most laughs.
2. Repeat this activity with every performance and compare the recent one with the previous ones. Observe the trends of laughs that you got and calculate the timing. This will help you improve your skills with every performance of stand-up comedy.