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

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.

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