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

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.