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Five Tips For Your First Standup Comedy Set

So you’re ready to do your first standup comedy set after downing 5 shirley temples. You think you know everything on how to be funny. But wait, before you go up for your comedy debut, here are 5 tips you might find useful for your first stand up performance: 1. Bring your friends. Bringing your [...]

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Standup Comedian’s Code

Being the first point of view comedian in the Philippines, I see a lot of newbie comics making rookie mistakes or breaking golden rules thinking that they know everything on how to be funny. I can’t really blame them since this type of comedy is so new, they don’t know any better. I was lucky [...]

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Five Rules of How to be a Stand up Comedy Audience by W. Kamau

I just read this funny and educational article by my friend and fellow stand up comedian W. Kamau Bell. There are so many How To Do Comedy guides out there, but I’ve never seen one for being a comedy audience. It’s about time the crowd got educated. Here’s the link: 5 Rules of How to [...]

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Handling Hecklers During Your Stand Up Performance

RATED PG13 You can’t help it, at some point in your stand up career, there will be a drunk guy who thinks he’s being funny and will try to heckle you with some stupid question. How do you handle it? Well, you have to put him in his place without being mean and alienating the [...]

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Killer Stand Up Review

One of the biggest challenges when you’ve been doing comedy for over 13 years like I have is coming up with new material (without the aid of mind altering substances). Yeah, I do the notebook thing and write down stuff when I have a funny idea or if something hilarious happens. But that can only [...]

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7 Keys to Being a More Effective Performer

In my 13 years (and counting) of performing as a stand up comedian, I’ve learned that a lot of the skills I use on stage can carry over to other types of performances besides comedy, namely, public speaking, presentations, hosting, pole dancing, miming, puppetry, gay acapella, and selling yourself to Oprah. But specific to stand [...]

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3 Quick Tips to Improve Stage Presence

Most comedians are skilled in delivering jokes. But sometimes they have bad stage habits. And there’s nothing that destroys a funny bit than bad stage management. These are the 3 simple things that I learned that maybe small things but make a big difference in your stage performance. Take it from me, I’ve been performing [...]

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Rules of Standup Comedy

I’m writing this while it’s still fresh in my mind. I just got back from a so-so gig. Actually it wasn’t that bad, it was just that one of my new jokes bombed and so even though my staple bits got decent laughs, I felt like I had a horrible set. I committed a couple [...]

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5 Quick Pointers for Corporate Comedy Gigs

Being a straight Filipino stand up comedian in the Philippines, I earn most of my comedy income from corporate gigs. Yes, I do have to sell out to corporate Philippines from time to time to augment my revenue to buy milk for the kids. And no, the P150 you pay to watch me on Mondays [...]

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Styles of Joke Delivery: One Liners and Story Telling

Like the Kuma Sutra, joke delivery has a lot of different styles. The two types that are pretty popular that I’ve seen a lot of successful comics use are one liners and stories. It’s up to you what you prefer, but in my experience it’s always helpful to have the full arsenal so that you [...]

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