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.

Have you attended many interview but no one call you back for appointment? I ill tell you why.

In today’s competitive life, employers are more inclined to find people who can contribute to the growth of the company and not just boost its productivity.

Hence, most employers tend to look for people who are endowed with the most desirable job skills in order to match the expectations and necessities of the company.

Therefore, for people who wish to make it to the jobs that they have long been dreaming of, it is important to know the most sought after job skills of most employers.

Here’s a list of the important job skills a job seeker must have in order to land a good job and keep it.

1. The ability to research

Job seekers should possess the ability to research not because they wanted to land a job in a research company but in order to do simple searches on the data needed by a particular activity.

2. Logical thinking

Most employers need people who are able to produce effective solutions and to make sensible solutions regarding a proposal or a probable activity.

3. Technologically literate

With the advent of information technology, most job openings require people who are computer literate or know how to operate different machines and office equipments.

Most employers do not necessarily need people who are technological graduates. The simple fact that job seekers know the basic principles of technology is already enough.

4. Communication skills

People who are able to land a good job are mostly those who are adept in speaking and writing. Employers hire people who are able to express their thoughts efficiently through verbal and written communications.

5. Organizational skills

No employer would like to hire somebody who is disorganized. Organization is extremely important to maintain a harmonious working relationship in the company. Hence, most employers find people who know how to arrange scheme and methods that would maintain the orderliness in the area.

6. Interpersonal skills

Because the working environment consists of various kinds of personalities, it is necessary, therefore, to acquire the skill to communicate to people form different walks of life.

7. Professional Growth

Employers hire people who are able to create a plan that will generate personal career growth. This means that the person is willing to improve him or herself professionally by learning new things he or she still does not know.

These are just some of the most wanted job skills by most employers. Hence, it is important for the job seekers to take note of these assets in order to be successful in every endeavor they make.

Please find time to develop yourself on these skills before you complain of not getting job. Because if you get one without these skill, it wouldnt be long before they discharge you of your unwelcome duty.

, Originally By Davies.
Davies is a communicator, Life coach and Information Broker.

Manners of the Heart

A. Understanding of the origin of the words


This is an indication to the greatness of the words being read, and the bounty of Allah; Glorified is He, to His creation when He addressed His

creation with these words.


B. Putting into the heart the understanding that these are not the words of man.


Through this the reader should think about the characteristics of Allah the Exalted.


C. Presence of the heart while reading.


Through this the reader should throw away other thoughts while reading the Qur'an.


D. Pondering the meaning.


There is less reward in reciting the Qur'an without understanding the meaning. The Qur'an was revealed for guidance and this can be achieved through recitation accompanied with pondering.


E. Understanding the meaning.

This means interacting and reacting to every verse according to what is proper for it.


F. Individualization

This means that the reader feels that every message in the Qur'an is meant especially for him personally.


External Manners for reading the Qur'an

* Purity of body and clothes and place.
* Using sawak.
* Facing the Qiblah.
* Seeking refuge from rejected Satan and reading the basmalah.
* Not reading when yawning.
* Avoiding cutting off reading to talk with people.
* Stopping at a verse of warning and seeking protection with Allah, and stopping at a verse of mercy and asking The Merciful for His Bounty.
* Humbleness and crying when reading.

Imam An-Nawwawi may Allah be Merciful to him said: Crying when reading the Qur'an is a characteristic of those who know Allah (know Him through His names and Characteristics) and the feelings of the righteous.

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