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

  • Posted by ChuckRoy
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  • Date May 19, 2018
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Comedy101 Offers Professional Development Training for Stand-up Comedians

A professional stand-up comedian is able to charge a fee and possibly earn a living performing stand-up comedy. To help you learn these skills, we’ve developed the Comedy101 School of Stand-up Comedy. In this article, we’ll discuss the performance skills for a professional stand-up comedian.

Here’s how Professional Stand-up Comedians demonstrate knowledge:

  • Read an audience.
  • Identify, visualize successful comedy ideas and performances.
  • Define their comedy.
  • Memorize, recite and artistically perform comedy.
  • Tabulate the Gross Potential Revenue for a gig.

Professional Stand-up Comedians comprehend these basic comedy skills:

  • Ask questions that explore comedic principles.
  • Give examples of funny comedy.
  • Demonstrate the ability to write jokes and perform stand-up comedy.
  • Summarize your professional comedic abilities.
  • Estimate the work required to complete a comedy job.

Professional Stand-up Comedians demonstrate knowledge of these basic comedy concepts:

  • Show, demonstrate the art of stand-up comedy.
  • Write funny jokes.
  • Record funny videos, audio, photographs.
  • Predict material that gets laughs.
  • Create comedy in interviews.

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

  • Distinguish between elements of comedy.
  • Survey audiences, clients and peers for artistic climate, business processes, attitudes and values.
  • Advertise comedy shows with a PR Toolkit.
  • Calculate the price of comedy jobs.
  • Experiment with comedy, promotions, marketing or business operations.

Professional Stand-up Comedians can evaluate these basic comedy concepts.

  • Predict the outcome of performances.
  • Editorialize on professional standards.
  • Debate industry standards.
  • Score/rate performances.
  • Appraise comedy and gigs for value, artistic and audience satisfaction.

Professional Stand-up Comedians can create comedy.

  • Formulate entire sets of comedy; 5-min, 10-min, 25-min, 45-min, 70-min, 90-min, etc
  • Book, Promote, Provide evidence, Report (taxes), negotiate gigs
  • Provide comedy show producers a PR Toolkit to promote gigs (headshot, bio, video, etc.)
  • Provide a funny, professional Writing Sample.
  • Collaborate with peers, vendors, clients.

Ready for professional development training?

If you’re ready to develop your skills, please check out the Comedy101 School of Stand-up Comedy.

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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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