Three Critical Attributes You Must Consider When Developing Stand-up Comedy Material

Introduction

I fully realize that I provided you a ton of information in Training Module Three regarding things to consider when it comes to developing stand-up comedy material — information that you can refer back to as needed after you have developed the stand-up comedy material that you want to share with audiences.

But when it comes to the initial creative process of turning your comedy topic list into bulk stand-up comedy material…

There are three critical attributes your stand-up comedy material must have — otherwise you can spend a ton of time “spinning your wheels” and going nowhere fast.

Three Critical Attributes

You can talk about virtually anything you want to talk about on stage provided it has these 3 critical attributes:

1. You have some personal connection to or interest in the material you are presenting to an audience.

In other words, your “topics” — your experiences, observations, insights, opinions, views, etc. — easily trigger your sense of humor because they have some meaning to you and stir any number of emotions or mental states in varying degrees such as:

Note 1: You don’t have to (nor do you want to) “fabricate” the emotions or mental states associated with your comedy material because you want to fully capitalize on your natural expressive comedy traits right from the beginning when developing your stand-up comedy material:

Note 2: It is these same emotional or mental attributes that come into play when you are talking about anything with friends, family, co-workers, associates, acquaintances, etc. that causes laughter happen as a result of what you have to say or respond to in everyday conversation.

Note 3: The emotional attributes identified above DO NOT have to be extremes, just like they don’t have to be extremes during casual conversations.

2. You can react easily (and frequently) to whatever it is you want to talk about using your own sense of humor.

The last thing you ever want to do is try to “force funny” into your stand-up comedy material — not in the development process or on stage.

3. Your audience can easily understand, visualize and/or relate to and appreciate what you are talking about.

Otherwise, your audience simply will not “get” the humorous or funny aspects of the stand-up comedy material you want to deliver.

These three attributes are critical for developing ANY particular type of comedy material, whether it is squeaky clean or rated XXX.

Wrap Up

When you begin developing any topic on your comedy topic list, I want you to be as unrestricted as possible, which will speed up the comedy material development process greatly and keep you away from “writers block” so to speak.

However, if what you want to say and express on stage does not have the three basic, yet critical attributes described above…

You will end-up wasting time trying to develop stand-up comedy material that doesn’t have much of a chance of generating big laughs on stage.

Will you develop stand-up comedy material that you won’t ever use on stage?

Of course you will – every comedian does.

But what is important is that you develop a process that is easy for you and doesn’t initially restrict your sense of humor and creativity and…

Understand that you have the ability to screen your stand-up comedy material for audience acceptability “after-the-fact” using the information in this report and the additional information provided in Training Module Three.