From: Ken Criste
Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at
7:48 AM
Subject: speech
Whitney,
Congrats on your first
comedic speech success. John has high praise for your efforts!
Keep a few things in mind
while you visualize your performance(s).
The audience for comedy
comes to laugh so they are automatically "on your side" and 99% will
go along for the ride. Think of yourself as driving a bus. Everyone on the bus
ordinarily just wants to enjoy the scenery and relax...you are the bus driver
and the more confident you seem the more people just "accept". You do
not seek approval as much as you just want them to enjoy.
The audience is
conditioned to laugh. harness that and use it to help them enjoy your
performance. A performer who is unsure or not confident will be shifting a
certain psychological responsibility to the audience to "take care of the
performer" or feel pity or something. They didn't pay for that.
Learn the set up/punch
format in the beginning and the more cleverly you disquise this the funnier and
more intelligent it will be. Of course if you observe the older female comics
you'll see how married they are to this delivery and its the type of stuff they
do the type of jokes which the audience comes, pays for, expects..no shame in
structuring this way if it suits what you are about.
Anyway...take a couple
acting classes... you'll learn some things and you might even get parts in
movies commercials voice overs etc!
Ken
on. You
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