Last Thursday I appeared on Big Ben and took the opportunity to test more than three minutes contemporary stand-up comedy (plus some of my basic joke). And while I broadened a bit. My five minutes with basic joke is of course very much about growing up and school, but in the new jokes, I bring a little more modern phenomena. It worked well and meant that I could be a bit more energetic on stage and I got to try some different voices.
I was the first comedian on stage and I did not expect to have a particularly loud laughter. First, it is always difficult when the audience is not as heated as well, my previous two gigs at the Big Ben was certainly okay, but no direct laughter celebrations. So it was great that it worked so well at this time. I will try to work more on changing the energy on stage, it seems to be a wave of success. On that front, I learn a lot by watching other comedians such as Fredrik Olsson T , which also occurred last Thursday, and whose humor suited me fine. His jokes are also very nicely written and floats on perfect.
The next day I did my first gig at Café Klaver , near Skanstull. The room is divided into two rooms with connecting door. First, a cafe with good food (I ate salmon heating) and a small theater with stadium in stair shape and location of at least 50-60 people. But it should be out in time to get the seat - it was very crowded on standing engines. I really liked the place. There is something special audience sitting in rows of seats according to classical theater model. As a comedian, I get so good with them. It felt the same way to laugh Raw Comedy Club at onset.
I went mainly because my jokes, but also put in a bit of what worked on Thursday. I loved to stand there and get the audience's laughter. And I hope I can get back there again soon. That my friends Martin and Anna-Lena was in place made me very happy.
Extra fun was it to both Thursday and Friday to get to know so many nice comics and to see them run their stand-up routines. There will usually be about 7-9 comedians at every opportunity. Each time I participate in a stand-up tonight, I get new favorites.
Now I'm looking forward to two weeks with joke writing. I would actually be able to get the whole nine minutes material that I already got together, as most of my gig will only be 5-7 minutes long. But February 18, I have agreed to run two times ten minutes on Club Jambalaya (on O'Leary's in Old Town). So now I have put together another 11 minutes good material, and time to test it at various gigs at clubs rookie before then. Right now it feels like the jokes section of my brain has taken a long time off, but I'll just sit down with pen and paper. Writing humor is 90% of the time, hard work. The other 10% of the time I devote my time to delete all the jokes that I do not think works.
(See also my list of stand-up performances)
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Curious and far away ... when we get a taste here?
Ann: It will unfortunately take a while. Since I'm running almost the same joke every time I perform, I will not burn the material by posting it openly on YouTube. But forward in June, I might still put out a taste.
Do you have any tips when it comes Chamber dull brain?
Some days you'll find humor everywhere in our daily lives, but others would not even detect it if it jumped up and knocked one in the head.
Magnus: So where's that simple. Some days it's absolutely incomprehensible difficult to think of every little joke. However, I have realized that the only thing that works for me is to simply sit down and write and think for hours. To test different variations, write down the scheme, finding unsuspected connections between entirely different subjects. And in the end might have written down three jokes. Of which only one is good. Perhaps in the future I may be faster, but in the current situation, it takes tremendous time for me to come up with a joke. I was a full day to improve the punchline of one of my weaker jokes. At last came a punch line, which now works great. I had been on the track several times during the day, but did not realize how easily you can solve the punchline. And that's probably the key to success - to find punchlines that are simple, yet unique.
When I look for topics to joke about so I assume most of the time by myself. I talk a lot about myself as a "smart geek," and it is based on what I am trying to find every possible angle - from childhood to kontorsliv.
Otherwise, it tends to be gratifying to think what it chafes on a daily basis. There's often a lot of material to work with. You just have to find their own unique angle on it, so as not to draw the exact same joke as everyone else.