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Characters Mastering Stand Up Characters ↠ Mastering Stand Up 102 Stephen Rosenfield ´ 2 Read This entertaining and sharply written guide for both beginners breaking into comedy and professionals seeking to improve their sets and advance their careers examines the work of great comedians such as Louis CK Jerry Seinfeld Eddie Izzard Moms Mabley Hannibal Buress Sarah Silverman Richard Pryor and as a means of illustrating the most important techniues of performing and writing stand up He I recently decided to try stand up comedy I don t even know why because I get so nervous before going on stage Yet for some reason I feel compelled to do itI m taking a weekly class which I think is crucial I need someone to force me to write material and performBut I wanted and this book was it Rosenfield gives you tools to apply to your writing and you can immediately see your set getting laughsHis section on overcoming nerves was life changing I had my first performance yesterday where I didn t feel tortured by the voice harassing me I haven t felt comfortable performing on stage since I was a little kidI highly recommend this book to any live performer comedians improv acting etc who wants to get better faster have fun and get laughs

Characters Mastering Stand Up

Characters Mastering Stand Up Characters ↠ Mastering Stand Up 102 Stephen Rosenfield ´ 2 Read Re Stephen Rosenfield lays out a clear plan for achieving success candidly explaining what works what doesn’t and why Including a 12 item “Successful Comedian’s To Do List” Rosenfield states “Get undeniably good at each of these and you can kiss your day job good bye You will be a pro” The New York Times heralded Stephen Rosenfield as “probably the best known comedy teacher in t Who is this book good for I think it can be anyone It is supposed to be about stand up comedy and all the aspects of it Yet I think it has to offer to tell us how humor works in our communications It finally answered many of my uestions on why some jokes do work and why some don t I used to have a friend who was insisting on the same type of joke the same theme and the same delivery over and over again and I could never understand why not only these jokes were not funny but also sometimes annoying This book shed some light on that case at lastI was impressed by the density of information throughout the whole book It delivered solid and concrete materials from the very first page to the very last page without ever diluting the content I could not find even one page in the entire book that you can take out I take this as a sign that the author knew well what he was writing about and he didn t have the need to expand the book to a certain number of pagesIn some sense this book might take some fun out of comedy shows it dissects comedy so well that you might start paying attention to the mechanisms of and the structure behind the comedy rather than simply enjoying the end result But it might also help you enjoy comedy even I d guess it depends on you I was in a stand up comedy recently and while everyone was laughing I could not help myself but to count laugh per minutes of the show as I learned from this book The Wadsworth Anthology of Childrens Literature very first page to the Index of Spanish Folktales Classified According to Antti Aarnes Types of the Folktale; very last page without ever diluting the content I could not find even one page in the entire book that you can take out I take this as a sign that the author knew well what he was writing about and he didn t have the need to expand the book to a certain number of pagesIn some sense this book might take some fun out of comedy shows it dissects comedy so well that you might start paying attention to the mechanisms of and the structure behind the comedy rather than simply enjoying the end result But it might also help you enjoy comedy even I d guess it depends on you I was in a stand up comedy recently and while everyone was laughing I could not help myself but to count laugh per minutes of the show as I learned from this book

Characters Mastering Stand Up Characters ↠ Mastering Stand Up 102 Stephen Rosenfield ´ 2 Read He country” His alumni include some of today’s most prominent comedians and comedy writers such as Lena Dunham Jim Gaffigan Eric Slovin and Jessica Kirson Rosenfield has directed coached andor written for these and hundreds of other comedians As a pioneer in the field of teaching comedy he founded the American Comedy Institute the premier stand up comedy school in the United States in 198 Order it and be prepared for changes in your lifeI just finished chapter five of your book Mastering Stand Up and I can t really believe it I wrote my first material It is anecdotal stand up which I am going to use as opener for one of my trainingsseminars Wow feels goodI used to work as onair personality for one of the leading radio programs in Germany HITRADIO FFH in the 90s and early 2000s It never came to my mind that comedy can be learned I thought the other onair staff writing funny things are gifted by whatever Since today I know I could have learned it and compete with them Since uitting my job in the radio business I started a training business That runs well but I want to expand to the market of speaking Which I will do with funny speeches for business events The goal is to get 10 paid engagements in 2019 Let s see how long it will take me to get there My first material based on your book will be on stage audience will be seminar participants next Monday first and then again on Wednesday the same week Can t wait for the experience starting a seminar with stand upAgain Thanks for your inspirationRegards from Wiesbaden in Germany