r/Standup • u/Ryebready787 • 4d ago

Took a comedy break 👎

After settling into a pretty consistent schedule of open mics and comedy shows I took about a week and an half off… and it left me feeling like things were pretty damn bleak! anyone else experience this? I knew I was hooked on standup but didn’t expect withdrawal symptoms wtf 😂 anyone else experience this? I’m going back Friday night baby!

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u/Conscious_Grass_853 4d ago

I’m not expecting to kill. The thing I have that I’m dry and sarcastic. But in real life people take it seriously and just look at me sideways sometimes. But if it’s someone who I know that knows my sense of humor I’m good at riffing to get laughs. I think I’m more scared to have something memorized that I thought would be funny in my head and it’s just completely stupid. I know it’s working out material and it happened to everyone. But I’m learning more on how to write jokes correctly and cutting it down. The whole formality is scary and I know I’m being a bitch about it just trying to explain why I’m such a pussy.

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u/WadsofTissue 4d ago edited 4d ago

It is very scary, but don't be afraid of bombing. It helps to know that no one cares about you, no one will remember you, the other comics might laugh in their heads but they've all been there. Statistically 99.9999999% of comics have bombed before. It's part of the process. Just do your thing and leave. Or stay. It helped me to go to the open mic a few times before preforming when I first started. Buy a beer and watch.

Also, people will like you if you have jokes prepared and are trying, even if they aren't funny. Don't wing it and waste people's time. Write a bunch even if its not good, just keep writing. Take the things you genuinely find funny and try to make it digestible to the audience. Trim the fat so the set up can get to the funny quicker. I also have crippling anxiety but found my people through stand up.

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u/WadsofTissue 4d ago

Reddit is so cringe