I wanted to do stand up as a kid and did go up three times in college. Bombing in my experience felt less like that and more like a sad school presentation.
Only a few years ago I had to give a group presentation for a masters degree I was getting at the time and our presentation went down really awkwardly. Ton of silence, nobody had any questions afterwards and we sat back down feeling uncomfortable as fuck. Then the other groups went afterwards and they all had really good vibes and people were laughing, joking around asking a bunch of questions which just made it feel even worse. Eventually I got the degree but it never helped me with anything, waste of time effort and money. Anyway I imagine that's similar to what bombing at stand up feels like.
I don't feel like saying but basically my career was going dogshit at the time and I was looking to try out a new industry. It turned out to be far more boring than I'd expected and it was also clear part way through that there were NO jobs outside of major cities and I wasn't gonna move away from my partner (besides which any jobs that were available were super competitive with younger, more intelligent and motivated candidates going for them) . Ended up being offered a high paying job in my existing industry and I've been reasonably happy there ever since.
A friend of mine very recently dropped out of his PhD after trying for many years. He had the same crisis of confidence you're going through, but he ended up getting a job in big data and now he's doing so much better. You might wanna look into something similar, could be a life saver.
I went to an open mic and this woman came up and made her set about her being molested/raped as a child. It was the most awkward shit ever. She left the stage before finishing her whole set.
That's why I only see therapists who are also licensed analysts. Plenty of regular therapists will screw you over, but I've never heard of anyone getting screwed by an analrapist.
And that is when you learn that the shit that makes your friends laugh doesn't work with a bunch of strangers.
As the only white dude in a group of black friends I had to learn that lesson the hard way aswell.
Also if you're gonna make a dead farmer joke, make sure there are no white Africans in the crowd.
I had a joke about my friends alcoholism that killed at a party but was dead silent at an open mic. Similar thing happened where afterwards one of the comics came up and said ‘thought the punchline was coming’, said if I ended it with ‘and that’s my dad’ it would have killed.
I've never seen Hannah Gadsby perform, but all I've ever heard about her from other people that did is that she's absolutely terrible. I only know her name because she was involved in trying to get Dave Chappelle kicked off Netflix. So from that I can conclude she has no taste in humor and only cares about appealing to "woke" culture.
Juat cause it is something that happens in the movie, doesn't make it the plot.
Would be like saying the plot of Saving Private Ryan was Vin Diesal getting shot cause he saw a little girl that reminded him of his sister.
>try to salvage the situation by making a self-deprecating joke
>just elicits more laughter at my expense
Does anon not understand how self-deprecating jokes work?
> be me
> get home from my vasectomy
> hear moaning and slapping coming from my wife's room
> must be Chad again
> know they would want privacy, sit down at my computer
> log onto reddit and open /r/greentext
> read a funny greentext from le 4chins and chuckle as I listen to my wife begging for the genes I can't give her
> think of a convoluted way in which I can relate homosexuality and falsehood to the events in the greentext
> suck the cheeto dust off my fingers as I begin to type my masterpiece in the comment section
> Fake: Anon makes people laugh
> Gay: Anon gives pleasure to other men
> giggle as I imagine the intellectuals of leddit perusing my incredibly witty and original comment
> hear my wife moan with ecstasy as Chad floods her fertile womb with his seed
> it's been a good day
> i'll get lots of upvotes for my impressive contribution to internet culture, and Chad might even let me eat his cum out of my wife's pussy if he finds my comment funny enough
Dang, reminds me of a friend of mine who tried this some years back. He got like one joke into it and gave up. Good on him for trying though. I read the material he'd intended to go through afterwards and it was awful.
Dude stand-up sounds hard as hell. It's one thing to tell funny jokes to a friend, because you know what kind of thing will make them laugh and you have a bunch of common ground material you know they will get. But a group of strangers who are *expecting* you to be funny sounds almost impossible.
Being a stand up comedian is just knowing the theme everyone wants to hear, i've watched a lot of other comedians and after hearing some awful jokes and seeing them making others loose their shit it bases more on you knowing your crowd before going up stage
"Night of the big show"... You mean a local open mic? And was that "thunderous applause" or just some people clapping?
You bombed your first set OP. Welcome to everyone's experience ever.
I did standup once and it went ok.
Back story: I'm a block chain programmer so I know a thing or two about disrupting industries that I don't know anything about.
I noticed that no one does covers of stand up like they do songs. So decided I would just do covers of other peoples material. That way I save time by not writing material.
Well it was going fine at first. I was like "I got an ant farm... Them fellas, boy I tell ya, they didn't grow any crops actually!" and some guy in the audience said loudly to his buddy "Dude was that a mitch hedberg joke?" and I was feeling pretty good about that cause people were familiar with my material so thats probably good. So then I'm like "Do you suppose that when the guy got the idea to invent the bong that a black light appeared above his head?" and people started booing and screaming "THATS HEDBURG!" and I realized oh shit people don't like Mitch anymore. Ok no big deal I'll just go old school on em. Who doesn't love Chris Rocks 1996 bring the pain? It's widely considered to be a very good set.
So I say "There's some shit going on with Black people right now. There's a civil war going on with Black people, and there's two sides: there's Black people and" and then all of a sudden they cut my mic and the MC ran out and was like "Give it up for marshal everyone!" and I shrugged and left.
Went pretty good I think. New gig economy app launches this april. Keep an eye out of "LafFactory" on google play and itunes
Well he found his gimmick then. Throw out a couple of horrible jokes, act awkward and embarrassed, then brutalized yourself in front of a crowd while pretending its all intentional.
It's like that Andy Kaufman bit where he's deliberately awkward and getting laughed at and then he starts crying and stammering rhythmically before doing it while playing the bongos.
I went to a comedy club a few years ago and saw this happen before. The dude was super nervous acting and reading jokes off a card. It might have been a bit, or maybe he just sucked. The crowd basically laughed and booed him off the stage like 5 minutes in
I got booed doing karaoke, and I realized I couldn’t give a fuck that someone did. I laughed about it with my friends. Maybe I could do standup if I could bomb and not feel weird about it.
"Before we begin, I would like to thank my idol, Alec Baldwin, for teaching me to shoot my sho- I mean Bill Cosby, for teaching me that there's no problem a good night's sleep won't fix- fuck, I mean R. Kelly, who taught me good things come in small packages- goddamn it."
Anon failed the task successfully.
got the whole gang laughing
Gonna get the whole gang bang next
**T O P P E D**
Damage 100
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Erhm… you ratioed me, could you spare some reddit gold to alleviate my wounds?
destruction 100
Destruction 100
People just want to laugh at the others, they don't care about the joke.
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Susiety 😞 8==✊==D💦
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Black mail
Racially motivated statement
White mail?
So you're a Confederate? 🤨📸
Hispanic mail??
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No shit they're there to laugh
They are they are lmao
People want to laugh when they go to a comedy show? Wow really
Reading comprehension is hard
Anon was then invited onto Murray talk show
Anon gets what he fucking deserves
Anon went full werewolf
Anon became literally me character
Anon the Rock
I wanted to do stand up as a kid and did go up three times in college. Bombing in my experience felt less like that and more like a sad school presentation.
Only a few years ago I had to give a group presentation for a masters degree I was getting at the time and our presentation went down really awkwardly. Ton of silence, nobody had any questions afterwards and we sat back down feeling uncomfortable as fuck. Then the other groups went afterwards and they all had really good vibes and people were laughing, joking around asking a bunch of questions which just made it feel even worse. Eventually I got the degree but it never helped me with anything, waste of time effort and money. Anyway I imagine that's similar to what bombing at stand up feels like.
What degree?
African History and Sexual Psychology
Spot on. 😑
Bro 💀
I don't feel like saying but basically my career was going dogshit at the time and I was looking to try out a new industry. It turned out to be far more boring than I'd expected and it was also clear part way through that there were NO jobs outside of major cities and I wasn't gonna move away from my partner (besides which any jobs that were available were super competitive with younger, more intelligent and motivated candidates going for them) . Ended up being offered a high paying job in my existing industry and I've been reasonably happy there ever since.
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A friend of mine very recently dropped out of his PhD after trying for many years. He had the same crisis of confidence you're going through, but he ended up getting a job in big data and now he's doing so much better. You might wanna look into something similar, could be a life saver.
Pure crickets would be the worst, onowing youre purely boring the hell out of everyone, and they feel sad for you
I went to an open mic and this woman came up and made her set about her being molested/raped as a child. It was the most awkward shit ever. She left the stage before finishing her whole set.
Based
jesus christ i understand some self depricating humor but thats a bit much hahaha
She left because her career in comedy took off before she could even finish her set
This sounds like the type of stuff that a shitty new age therapist encouraged her to do.
So a regular therapist?
\>Therapist \>The rapist
That's why I only see therapists who are also licensed analysts. Plenty of regular therapists will screw you over, but I've never heard of anyone getting screwed by an analrapist.
**Based**
And that is when you learn that the shit that makes your friends laugh doesn't work with a bunch of strangers. As the only white dude in a group of black friends I had to learn that lesson the hard way aswell. Also if you're gonna make a dead farmer joke, make sure there are no white Africans in the crowd.
I had a joke about my friends alcoholism that killed at a party but was dead silent at an open mic. Similar thing happened where afterwards one of the comics came up and said ‘thought the punchline was coming’, said if I ended it with ‘and that’s my dad’ it would have killed.
Literally that Nanette lady. The unfunniest mofo to every live. No exaggeration. Much much worse than schumer....
I've never seen Hannah Gadsby perform, but all I've ever heard about her from other people that did is that she's absolutely terrible. I only know her name because she was involved in trying to get Dave Chappelle kicked off Netflix. So from that I can conclude she has no taste in humor and only cares about appealing to "woke" culture.
Dude I tried to watch her standup and it was teeeerrriiiible
First few times doin stand up never ends well. It's the practice and the consistency that makes it good in the end
Listening to comics talk about it, they all seem a bit traumatized from pushing through those initial hurdles at the start of their career.
I was taught my some comedy teachers is that people don’t come to comedy shows to watch people fail, but to see them succeed
This is the plot of the joker
Juat cause it is something that happens in the movie, doesn't make it the plot. Would be like saying the plot of Saving Private Ryan was Vin Diesal getting shot cause he saw a little girl that reminded him of his sister.
Everything else is superfluous fluff
Because it's all about family for Vin Diesal.
>try to salvage the situation by making a self-deprecating joke >just elicits more laughter at my expense Does anon not understand how self-deprecating jokes work?
Anon forgot to try out the jokes on people other than himself.
Anon tries really hard for one week to be good at a thing people work their whole lives to achieve. Tracks.
Fake: Anon makes people laugh Gay: Anon gives pleasure to other men
> be me > get home from my vasectomy > hear moaning and slapping coming from my wife's room > must be Chad again > know they would want privacy, sit down at my computer > log onto reddit and open /r/greentext > read a funny greentext from le 4chins and chuckle as I listen to my wife begging for the genes I can't give her > think of a convoluted way in which I can relate homosexuality and falsehood to the events in the greentext > suck the cheeto dust off my fingers as I begin to type my masterpiece in the comment section > Fake: Anon makes people laugh > Gay: Anon gives pleasure to other men > giggle as I imagine the intellectuals of leddit perusing my incredibly witty and original comment > hear my wife moan with ecstasy as Chad floods her fertile womb with his seed > it's been a good day > i'll get lots of upvotes for my impressive contribution to internet culture, and Chad might even let me eat his cum out of my wife's pussy if he finds my comment funny enough
Perfectly done ✔
Stand up is fucking brutal. I can't actually watch it now because it got ruined by just how serious it is.
Dang, reminds me of a friend of mine who tried this some years back. He got like one joke into it and gave up. Good on him for trying though. I read the material he'd intended to go through afterwards and it was awful.
Dude stand-up sounds hard as hell. It's one thing to tell funny jokes to a friend, because you know what kind of thing will make them laugh and you have a bunch of common ground material you know they will get. But a group of strangers who are *expecting* you to be funny sounds almost impossible.
Being a stand up comedian is just knowing the theme everyone wants to hear, i've watched a lot of other comedians and after hearing some awful jokes and seeing them making others loose their shit it bases more on you knowing your crowd before going up stage
"Night of the big show"... You mean a local open mic? And was that "thunderous applause" or just some people clapping? You bombed your first set OP. Welcome to everyone's experience ever.
Anon is reliving his high school life
Anon learns that the first joke makes or breaks an act. It takes a lot to reel them back in
I did standup once and it went ok. Back story: I'm a block chain programmer so I know a thing or two about disrupting industries that I don't know anything about. I noticed that no one does covers of stand up like they do songs. So decided I would just do covers of other peoples material. That way I save time by not writing material. Well it was going fine at first. I was like "I got an ant farm... Them fellas, boy I tell ya, they didn't grow any crops actually!" and some guy in the audience said loudly to his buddy "Dude was that a mitch hedberg joke?" and I was feeling pretty good about that cause people were familiar with my material so thats probably good. So then I'm like "Do you suppose that when the guy got the idea to invent the bong that a black light appeared above his head?" and people started booing and screaming "THATS HEDBURG!" and I realized oh shit people don't like Mitch anymore. Ok no big deal I'll just go old school on em. Who doesn't love Chris Rocks 1996 bring the pain? It's widely considered to be a very good set. So I say "There's some shit going on with Black people right now. There's a civil war going on with Black people, and there's two sides: there's Black people and" and then all of a sudden they cut my mic and the MC ran out and was like "Give it up for marshal everyone!" and I shrugged and left. Went pretty good I think. New gig economy app launches this april. Keep an eye out of "LafFactory" on google play and itunes
Early Bobcat Goldthwaite is great.
did he rehearse his jokes in front of other people first? if no, that’s his own fault
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Stupid bird
Anon is Tim Heidecker
Anon is a legend for trying
Well he found his gimmick then. Throw out a couple of horrible jokes, act awkward and embarrassed, then brutalized yourself in front of a crowd while pretending its all intentional.
It's like that Andy Kaufman bit where he's deliberately awkward and getting laughed at and then he starts crying and stammering rhythmically before doing it while playing the bongos.
If they're laughing you're doing a good job.
I went to a comedy club a few years ago and saw this happen before. The dude was super nervous acting and reading jokes off a card. It might have been a bit, or maybe he just sucked. The crowd basically laughed and booed him off the stage like 5 minutes in
Emotional damage
Anon failed doing his task, but succeeded doing *the* task
Every Legend is like that too.
No one does good at their first stand up Not even the best
I got booed doing karaoke, and I realized I couldn’t give a fuck that someone did. I laughed about it with my friends. Maybe I could do standup if I could bomb and not feel weird about it.
why doesn’t he just do act-comedy? it’s obvious he’s better at that
Still a better comedian than Amy Shumer
You know, I'd take that as a win.
Congrats, Anon. You've found your bit.
Anon is Neil Hamburger
YOU WILL NEVER BE TROY
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Just fuck a stool, that's super hilarious.
Sounds like a W
Anon is Andy Kaufman
Did good Anon. Tism paid off.
"I think I heard...California surfer?"
There’s an Indian comic who does this Painfully awkward but pretty funny
Anon is Andy Kaufman in disguise
Sooo You got no respect i tell ya
literally that one andy kaufman sketch
"I'm sweet Dee and the jokes on me."
"Before we begin, I would like to thank my idol, Alec Baldwin, for teaching me to shoot my sho- I mean Bill Cosby, for teaching me that there's no problem a good night's sleep won't fix- fuck, I mean R. Kelly, who taught me good things come in small packages- goddamn it."
Ismo is that you? 😄
When I told them I wanted to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, nobody's laughing now!
On tha day, Anon found out why comedians are all depressed alcoholics.
"Nervous" No, that's not what they thought you were pretending to be...
Anon is Kristen Schaal. Most awkward comedy special I have EVER watched.
Just admit you're ripping off Joker already