Tips for good Stand-up

It often seems like Stand-up Comedy is all fun and games, and in all fairness it truly is. If your well humored among a crowd of people, and can get a few laughs out of them, you should definitely try your hand at some stand-up. Just go and hit your local comedy club for a Saturday night round up. Always remember making a crowd of people who are paying money to laugh are willing to laugh easy, if you know the right things to say. Keep in mind where you perform has a huge impact on what types of jokes are useful. It’s always important to be mindful in a large crowd of people, always keep these few tips in the top of your head and you should be good to go.

Always know your own flow; no matter who is in the audience, whether you see an ex or an old friend, never let it throw you off your groove. Next, break your show down into bits and pieces; this way you can ease out of a bad joke and save some face. The crowd is always full of random people, and you never know whom you might offend. Keeping that in mind, it’s a smart idea to inquire about your audience before you go on stage. Knowing them before-hand, even semi-personally, gives you a larger crowd’s attention at the club. You might want to have a set of clean jokes for your first act. In the start you have to compete against many contenders; and in order to come out on top the attention of a larger audience is very important. So if you’re at your local club for the comedy night and you’ve decided to go on stage today; then intermingling with your, soon to be, audience will determine if you can use sex jokes or not.


If you’ve been around the comedy block, then it’s important to go for round two with a new set of jokes. Keeping your material fresh is a very important factor in the long run. If you’ve kept your act clean until now, it might be time to use some of those insult jokes you’ve been hiding away. Finally, the best suited audience for a first timer is a group of individual he will never see again; So take a vacation, and find yourself a comedy club there (preferably in you native tongue) and blast them with an assembly line of holidayjokes.

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