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.
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Yeah, my partner and I had a hard time approaching stand-up for our presentation. It's really hard to be funny out of context; it's much easier to laugh at things and your observations of them when those things are actually happening.
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