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What are the business skills of a professional stand-up comedian?

  • Posted by ChuckRoy
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  • Date May 19, 2018

Competencies for Professional Stand-up Comedy Show Business Skills

Professional stand-up comedians able to charge a fee for performing stand-up comedy. Hopefully, they can earn a living delivering funny, original comedy shows. In this article, we’ll discuss the skills we develop at the Comedy101 Your Logo Here School of Intergalactic Fair Trade Stand-up Comedy Show Business.

Professional Stand-up Comedians demonstrate Comedy Show Business knowledge:

  • Locate gigs.
  • Provide a quote for comedy shows or services.
  • Deliver quality comedy shows that meet artistic, audience, venue and producer expectations.
  • Match material, promotions and marketing to create artistic, audience, venue and producer satisfaction.
  • Artistically reproduce promotions and marketing support materials.

Professional Stand-up Comedians comprehend Comedy Show Business skills:

  • Explain how and why to purchase tickets to comedy shows.
  • Write jokes that get laughs in podcast and radio interviews.
  • Judge gigs for appropriate art, audience and comedy.
  • Give examples of your comedy with audio, video and social media.
  • Distinguish your artistic catalog with quality art, humor and fair show business practices.

Professional Stand-up Comedians apply Comedy Show Business concepts:

  • Solve complex problems and gain agreement in show business contracts.
  • Construct comedy show proposals that fairly deliver artistic, audience, venue and producer satisfaction.
  • Chart and report progress with workday, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly business operations.
  • Experiment with promotions and marketing solutions.
  • Administer show business, marketing and promotions plans.

Professional Stand-up Comedians use a variety of assessment tools to analyze their skills.

  • Distinguish your catalog of comedy for artistic, audience, venue and producer satisfaction.
  • Appraise and point out the competitive advantages of your comedy show business.
  • Survey your audience, venues, producers and self-assess for artistic and comedic satisfaction.
  • Analyze changes and fix errors in your art, comedy and show business practices.
  • Estimate and deduce future trends in comedy show business.

Professional Stand-up Comedians can evaluate Comedy Show Business concepts.

  • Order and appraise comedy show materials, merchandise, promotions or marketing supplies.
  • Measure and report on profits/losses for taxes and retirement savings.
  • Judge and discriminate artistic and comedic originality.
  • Find errors and reframe solutions to comedy show business problems.
  • Provide materials that support and convince audiences, venue and producers to experience your comedy show.

Professional Stand-up Comedians complete comedy show business operations.

  • Facilitate a quality audience experience for stand-up comedy.
  • Negotiate fair prices for comedy shows.
  • Develop a manage a business plan that delivers a funny catalog of comedy.
  • Speculate and propose comedy shows.
  • Anticipate and support comedy show promotions and marketing.

If you’re ready to improve your comedy show business skills, please sign up for a Comedy101 Membership.

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ChuckRoy
    Hi! I'm Chuck Roy, professional stand-up comedian. I teach Comedy at the Community College of Denver and online at Comedy101. You may benefit from my experiences performing in TV Shows like Will & Grace and 3rd Rock from the Sun, plus movies like Ralphie May Presents and Louie Anderson Presents.

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