Life’s Not Always Funny If You Want a Stand-Up Comedian Career

There’s a saying that clowns (People that make other laughs) are the saddest people in the world. Not because they want to be sad, but it is not an easy task to make others laugh. Most of them practice hard before they perform 5 minutes jokes. Fun and laughter doesn’t always figure in a stand-up comedian’s life. If you’re determined to have a stand-up comedian career, prepare yourself for lots of challenges ahead!

IT’S NOT EASY TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LAUGH
You scare people by posing a threat to them – it may be physical, emotional, or take any other form. You make other people cry by making them either sympathize or empathize with your plight. The most difficult reaction to wring out from your audience is laughter. People have different kinds of funny bones, and you need to know how to quickly and accurately identify what those funny bones represent.

MEMORIZED OR IMPROVISED
If you’re as successful as Jay Leno or Conan O’Brien, Ali Baba and other few Nigerians stand-up comedians then yes, you have the right to use cue cards. Since you’re not them you only have two choices when it comes to perfecting and delivering your material: do you want it memorized or improvised?

Memorizing dialogues is easy to do but the danger lies in delivering it as you might end up sounding mechanical. With memorized dialogues, your mind might be too caught up with recalling what you have to say that you don’t have any mind space left to consider the best way to deliver your punchline.

When it comes to improvised speeches, delivering a punchline is usually a breeze but your biggest problem is if you have enough material to last you four to ten minutes on the stage without getting booed out.

Other Tips on How to Have a Successful Stand-Up Comedian Career

Have a good sense of humor and don’t take yourself seriously. If you’re able to laugh at yourself, you’ll have in your possession the best material for your career: yourself!

Basketball players learn from the techniques used by other basketball players. Do the same and watch shows of other stand-up comedians like yourself. Learn, learn, and learn some more if you don’t want to run out of ways of making other people laugh.

Never copy or steal another stand-up comedian’s career. Don't try to be like basket mouth or anybody, be yourself. That is where lies success. Besides being grossly unethical, this can also ultimately make you lose your natural ability to make other people laugh. When you keep on relying on other people’s material, you might gradually lose your ability to create jokes by yourself due to seldom use.

Lastly, be professional in all your dealings with your manager, producer or bar owner, and your audience. Stand-up comedy is still a job after all so you need to act professional!

I will post more tips on how you can become a motivating and highly paid stand up comedians. Always come back for more.

Good info.

nice write up

Thanks. i am here to give my best.

I dont prepare anything before I go on stage. I just go on stage and start talking. Theres no way I can prepare sumthing which will make people laugh. . . If I do I will not say the things which I have prepared and instead I will go out of topic.

Me too lol

i want to be a sit down comedian

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He who fails to plan, plans to fail. Comedy is not about playing with people's brain, but telling them normal thing in a joking manner. Nobody says go to the stage with your LESSON NOTES FULL OF JOKES , but planning what to say and say it well to fit the situations. At times, it is the setting of the event that you will convert to joke but you will fail if you don't plan this before hand. Lack of serious behind-stage planning is the main cause of copycat of most comedians. You may make us laugh on the seat but of what value after leaving the scene? Lessons from a real joke remain with you after the laugh have gone. That is what make a quality and international comedians. For you to stand out, joke and wisdom must go along. I promised with these two weapons your bank account will swell up. We don't need condemner comedians but constructor comedians. that is how to laugh and learn. Please change the style and start preparing before going to stage if you don't want people to laugh at you instead of laughing at your jokes

Wishing you success in your career.