vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Well done Moon Bunny!
Stand up comedy
- Thread starter Moon bunny
- Start date
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swee'pea99
Squire
Yeah - hats off to the rabbit!
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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
The first thirty seconds were the hardest, one the flow started it was hard to stop. One or two wedding jokes I had ready to get the measure of the audience and control the nerves, then onto topical and observational stuff. Keeping the "topical" topical was not as easy as it looks. New pope? old hat and it was a catholic wedding so I could be sure one or two of the old biddies would be expecting me to genuflect every time I said "Pope". Paedophilia? all been done and there were children there. A godsend was the bride and groom were both tall (like me) so a few minutes observation on being tall (rather than taking the p out of shorties) went well.
One heckler, put down by his partner ("if you were as funny as she is you would be up there") several "personal offers", (perhaps wearing cycling gear was a bad idea), free food and drink, the easiest mumble pounds I have ever made away from the lottery. I was there to give the band and DJ a break but, well modesty stops me saying anything, but being called back for more, twice...
One heckler, put down by his partner ("if you were as funny as she is you would be up there") several "personal offers", (perhaps wearing cycling gear was a bad idea), free food and drink, the easiest mumble pounds I have ever made away from the lottery. I was there to give the band and DJ a break but, well modesty stops me saying anything, but being called back for more, twice...
Maz
Guru
Did you memorise your act or did you have cue cards?
I sometimes wonder how comedians can do their acts for 1 hour plus, without (seemingly) having prompts.
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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
Not exactly memorised, but a lot of things in the memory ready to come out as needed, the "gift of the gab" is essential as is being "so sharp you will cut yourself", I read all the news in the week beforehand, sorted out what might be funny, I had crib sheets to read on Saturday afternoon, 6 closely written pages of A4, they gave me perhaps 5 minutes of topical jokes, the rest especially the "being Tall" part came up from the memory.
Hitchington
Lovely stuff
- Location
- That London
Hey Moon bunny, you should read Stewart Lee's book "How I Escaped My Certain Fate - The Life and Deaths of a Stand Up Comedian". A really good study into the process of comedy and how it's created. It's actually a brilliant read!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Well done MB... mind you if a wedding party doesn't laugh no one will [
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Stewart Lee - someone that cynical and hurtful should be a comedian.
] Stewart Lee - someone that cynical and hurtful should be a comedian.
Monsieur Remings
Guru
- Location
- Yatton UK
Fair play to you. I used to do a lot of stand up poetry with a bit of a satirical edge and I couldn't just launch in with a poem, I had to introduce myself and say something stupid. Fair play to you.
For me, Eddie Izzard is a master of the stand-up due his ability to make the utterly stupid and childlike, both funny and even more ridiculous than it was when he started...and he keeps returning to a theme. On an entirely different level, I also love Sir Les Paterson for his off-the-cuff ability to be what he is already - a revolting, politically incorrect character who is both confident in himself and seemingly so unconcerned as to what others think.
For me, Eddie Izzard is a master of the stand-up due his ability to make the utterly stupid and childlike, both funny and even more ridiculous than it was when he started...and he keeps returning to a theme. On an entirely different level, I also love Sir Les Paterson for his off-the-cuff ability to be what he is already - a revolting, politically incorrect character who is both confident in himself and seemingly so unconcerned as to what others think.
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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
I have just reached my first £.1M from comedy. Not a bad screw for a bad idea.
You're joking!
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Typo! £1 the 'M' was a slip of the finger.
Well done for the fun.
Well done for the fun.
OP
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Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
Have you not noticed the . ?Typo! £1 the 'M' was a slip of the finger.
Well done for the fun.
The . Still means you're earning, so when can we see you perform?
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I spotted it (and zoomed the screen x 10 to check). £100,000 in the first 30 months is a great start - well done!Ah, didn't see the small print - thought it was dust on my screen.
