Dealing with Stand-Up

So as some of you may know, i am going ahead with a stand-up act for our humor presentation at the end of the term. I know all of us have been doing a lot of looking at these comedians, but i am looking extra special hard. I am trying to figure out what makes them funny, obviously, but in a way that i can attempt to make myself funny as well. The hardest part that i can see is the whole creation of a character. I consider myself a pretty funny guy, but it is easier to be funny in everyday conversation over doing it on stage. In person if a joke doesn't go over well, you move on, hopefully someone else says something, you try again or you can switch the conversation to literally anything else. In stand-up, you have a limited time to get these things said and done, so if even one joke goes wrong, you are spending the next time trying to win the audience back, and then telling the next joke, and everything falls apart.

Well, i don't really know what just happened with that last paragraph, i am really tired, sorry. i will try to do this again later after i have taken a nap.

Humor and Stuff

I don't want to insult the class or anything, but does anyone else feel like the semester is kind of dragging at this point? I mean, we all came into this class knowing that the best way to make something less funny is to talk about why it was funny. But the mechanical pace that all classes must use has made reading and watching these supposedly humorous pieces a chore. The readings for today's class weren't funny to me, so i tried to look into the text to find out why, but that just made less and less funny. By the end, i was in a worse mood then when i started to read something that is widely regarded as comedy. I guess i have at least learned in this class that this is the opposite reaction i am supposed to have. As i delve into my stand up comedian presentation, i am actually worried that i will find david spade less funny than before i started. What do you guys think?