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 rest of the audience. Most of the time, the audience is on your side, especially if the heckler is just plain stupid and is disrupting the show for everyone. So here’s a clip of one of my recent gigs where a heckler, who was probably thinking he was being good natured, asked me if I were gay. In his defense, the dude was actually a nice guy and I approached him after my set and he said I was funny and his friends credited me with a good come back. I hope this gives you some insight on how to handle the hecklers in your show. Good luck!

Do you get bored on Thursday nights? Tired of going to the same old bars after work hours? Do you need a laugh to rid your worries? Then come to Aruba Bar in Metrowalk, Ortigas every Thursday night and hang out with the Comedy Cartel. I guarantee that you’ll laugh your socks off or I’ll give your money back. Wait, it’s free so I don’t have to pay you back at all. So what else is your excuse? Come on over and enjoy Pinoy point of view stand up comedy with the Comedy Cartel.

I found this Killer Standup website that claimed to teach you how to write in comedy chunks. At first, I was skeptic like I am with most products on comedy coaching (maybe because of that comedy coach I met back when I was an open miker – he had a pony tail and did his sessions in his bedroom). Then I found a testimonial on the site from a good friend of mine and fellow comic Joe Braza. So I decided to try it out.

Steve Roye was able to break down into a system how to come up with chunks of comedy material. Honestly, I know most of the stuff he discusses in his product but what was really valuable to me was his efficiency at creating material that revolved around themes. It took me a couple of actual sets of trying out his system before I got it down. Now, when I come up with material it is so much faster and easier. If I had his product when I first started, I’d probably have 10 times the material I have now.

If you’re starting out as a comedian or even if you’re experienced, you will definitely benefit from the Killer Stand-Up System (I’m beginning to sound like a used car salesman). Honestly, the 2 things that have helped me as a stand-up are Judy Carter’s Stand-up Comedy book and the Killer Stand-Up system. Of course, there’s still no substitute to stage time.

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Hey, if it doesn’t work, Steve gives you a 60-day money back guarantee. And yes, I do get a commission if you buy it from this link. Helping other comedians and making money isn’t a bad thing.

Good luck!

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If you know me, then you know how I feel about Charice. But because this short video got so many hits and comments in just the first couple of days, I’m going to keep my mouth shut or rather my fingers from typing. “I can’t believe I’m actually watching this” (wink wink). Enjoy.

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 up performance, there are 7 simple yet effective techniques that I’ve learned that give me a better chance of having a killer set. Why 7? Well because 13 is too much and it’s bad luck. So here they are:

1. Commit.
Commit to the act. If you’re playing a serial killer in your bit, commit to it. Kill the cat. There’s nothing unfunnier than an act out that’s done half-assed.

2. Relax.
Like sexual predators, your audience can smell fear. If you can relax onstage, the more your audience will be relaxed. If they see you being comfortable, they will laugh more at your jokes.

3. Slow down or speed up.
Usually in small rooms, you can do rapid fire bits. The audience will easily keep up with you. Bigger rooms (and outdoors) require you to slow down your act a bit and annunciate every word you say. Maybe it’s the acoustics or maybe sound travels slower in a bigger venue.

4. Throw it away.
If a joke doesn’t work, throw it away. What I mean is to just perform the bit real quick that it doesn’t matter, kinda like a throwaway line. You blurt out the punch line then move on to the next joke before it hits them. Some of my weaker jokes become pretty strong when I do them as throwaway lines. It’s strange but true.

5. Don’t care.
Sometimes, it’s just best that you don’t give a damn. You just know that your material is funny and you don’t care if the audience gets it or not. It’s their problem. When you have this attitude, the audience mysteriously feels that they should laugh or it means they’re not in on the joke. Though sometimes this technique can also backfire. So you have to balance this attitude.

6. Acknowledge what’s going on.
If you’re bombing, just acknowledge it and show them that it’s no big deal. Doing this will relieve the tension in the room and allow the laughs to start coming in. If the waitstaff breaks a glass, say something about it. If the venue is a hole-in-the-wall, just say so but don’t expect the owners to be happy about it.

7. Visualize.
Before the show, visualize yourself killing. Oh, you thought I was going to say imagine your audience naked? That only works if you’re not doing a nudist camp. Athletes do it and it really works.

Here’s a short snippet of one of my sets at Votre Bar in Q.C. upstairs from East St. Louis near ABS-CBN. We do this every Thursday night around 9:30pm. Watch the Comedy Cartel perform live making you laugh your ass off.

Watch this most awesome show this Friday, June 4th at the RCBC Carlos P. Romulo Theater. Tickets to Laugh Out Loud are available at Ticketworld! 8919999 or log on to ticketworld.com.ph! I hope to see you guys there!

Watch my Bedouin experience as I explore the secrets of Doha, Qatar in this episode of On-Foot on the Living Asia Channel.