Posts Tagged ‘stand up comedy’

Finding the Funny Zone in Comedy

This article concentrates on helping performers take the necessary steps towards professionalism and also helps comedians finding their “zone”. It applies to every kind of comedy; stand-up comedy, theatre and other performance arts where comedy is used.

I am a magician myself, but I perform magic mixed with comedy. I have been a professional performer for 15 years, so I have some understanding of what I’m talking about. Comedy is a universal language, everybody respond to it and laughter makes life easier, lighter and happier. To be able to produce quality stand-up comedy is a very important thing in the modern stressful world.

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Steps To Become a Comedian

Like many dream’s, the dream of becomign a comedian will not just fall into your lap. Even the best comedians of our time, Sandler, Chris Rock, Seinfeld and denis Leary all had to WORK for there future fame. Yes, they were most likely born with that special IT factor.

But you know, there are 1,000’s of people that are born with the ability to make people laugh.

Learn How To Become a Comedian -Forget about reading this article, go straight to the “Killer Stand Up Comedy System”

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How to Be a Working Comic: An Insider’s Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy

From Library Journal

Schwensen, former talent coordinator for A&E’s An Evening at the Improv, reminds us that comedy is a business and provides specific and useful advice on basic issues such as headshots, resumes, and agents. While Schwensen sensibly advises novices to be original and to work steadily at stage time, Jay Sankey’s Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (LJ 5/1/98) offers much more on the craft of performance. Nearly half of this book is devoted to brief interviews with 12 top comedians (e.g., Drew Carey, Rhonda Shear, and Rene Hicks). While Jeff Dunham observes that “comedy has taken such a nose-dive,” Schwensen does not otherwise acknowledge that comedians face a shrinking stand-up industry. For strong performing arts collections.?Norman Oder, “Library Journal”Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This truly funny book about being funny is also a serious guide to the business of laughter and how to make it pay off. New Yor… Read more…

Latham Entertainment – All New Comedy

From the Back Cover
It’s funny in here…That’s right, the producer who brought you “The Original Kings of Comedy” and “The Queens of Comedy” has done it again…”Latham Entertainment Presents…is an all new, in your face, stand-up comedy experience. Featuring some of today’s hottest urban comics: Hosted by D. L. Hughley (“The Original Kings of Comedy,” “The Hughleys”), Sommore (“The Queens of Comedy”), Bruce Bruce, “The Wash,” “BET’s Comic View”), J. Anthony Brown (“Living Single,” “How to Be a Player”), Earthquake (“Def Comedy Jam”), and the hilarious Rickey Smiley (“Friday After Next,” Host of “Comic View 2000″). Nothing’s off limits to these six comics…it’s raw, uncensored, live stand-up that’s laugh-out-loud funny!

With routines from some of today?s hottest comedians, LATHAM ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS delivers Earthquake, an explosive performer whose ability to engage an audience with his straight-ahead humor has been heralded by critics; Bruce Bruce, who is b… Read more…