Assignment One:
Find out where the open mics in your town are. Find out how many you can go to this week. Write five minutes of material and perform at them.
What sort of material? This is up to you. Think of what you may have said that made your friends laugh. What additional info would strangers need to have to laugh at that? There’s a joke.
Don’t spend more than five hours writing this material. Don’t prolong that first performance. That will only make you more nervous. It very well may be nerve wracking. Best to rip the band aid off. Your fear will be much diminished once the experience is no longer a scary unknown.
Do this same five minutes at your first three open mics. Don’t adjust anything yet. Ask yourself the following questions in a notebook or Notepad file. These questions will remain the same after every three open mics. So get used to them, you will be answering them a lot.
What jokes got a laugh?
What jokes didn’t?
Why do you think the jokes that did work worked?
Why do you think the jokes that didn’t work didn’t?
What could you change about the ones that didn’t to maybe make them work?
What could you change about the jokes that worked to make them work even better?
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