Category: Guides
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Why Open Mics Beat Posting Your Set
Clips can get you booked. They cannot tell you if a bit works. The room is the test, and the friends last.
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How to Get From Open Mics to Opening at a Club
From one or two mics a week to two tight fives and a first club open: lock set A, build set B, shoot one tape, and get seen by hosts.
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How to Write Your First Stand-Up Joke
A first joke is one sentence that turns. Start from a specific true thing, write one punch, and take five premises to the mic.
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How to Have Fun at Open Mics
Use the mic to play: rearrange the five, try one new joke, and memorize the set with one word per bit.
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How to Start Stand-Up Comedy in Southwest Florida
The weekly mics, the clubs, and the bars that book standup in Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, Estero, and Punta Gorda.
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How to Develop a Tight Five
Writing five minutes is an afternoon. A tight five is the same five, in the same order, under the clock, after you have said it enough times to get bored of it.
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Mark Normand Tries to Write One Clean Joke in Page to Stage Episode 2
New on Mark Normand’s YouTube: Page to Stage Episode 2, six weeks to write one clean joke for Lincoln Center with Seinfeld, Gaffigan, and Jon Stewart. Watch the full episode on his channel.
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How to Start Stand-Up Comedy
You do not need a class or a persona. You need a notebook, a mic that will let a stranger go up, and a night you actually leave the house.