How to be a good comedian

If you want to stop laughing at your own jokes, work on controlling your reactions when you are practicing saying the joke. Watch comedy movies and read humorous books so you can develop a sense of what you think is funny.

You want to be known as a funny, fresh comic, not someone who borrows someone else’s material. You don't have to engage them in great battles of wits, because they are inevitably very drunk.I was doing a charity gig the other night and there was a guy who started shouting things out from the front row, so one of us just said, "Thank you for coming, other people are trying to listen," which was a nice way of telling him to shut up and he did. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.
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What makes you laugh? wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. Know that each performance will be different and don’t dwell on nights that don’t go as expected.Never plagiarize or steal material from another comedian, or else you won’t get booked to perform.Don’t interact with people that try to heckle or interrupt you during your set. I sometimes think laughter is probably the thing that stops us all going completely insane from the moment we are born. That will tell you a lot. Comedy in it’s most basic structure has a straight line and and punch line. When I first started I used to read autobiographies and watch other comedians on stage and watch how they were doing things.If you think it is going to be a tough audience, watch and learn how a skilled comedian can turn that audience around. Paul Merton says he was inspired by his good-humoured father

If you felt that it worked and you enjoyed it, then it would maybe give you the confidence to try and write your own stuff, because eventually that is what you are going to have to do in the end. The work is a therapy to the sadness and grief. I find you don't need to think of a funny put-down for a heckler, just tell them to shut up. This image is not<\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. They must also learn the best practices of self-promotion, networking, marketing, and social media influence. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.
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