Stand Up Comedy?

[Ninmast]

Red and I had a discussion about stand-up comedy this evening and tried a few lines of our own. Why don't you check it out and let us know what you think?

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Chris says:
I'm trying my hand at Stand-up

Schadenfreude! says:
What's wrong, somebody put gum in your seat?

Chris says:
I see what you did there...again

Schadenfreude! says:
What kind of stand-up comedian are you? Where's your comebacks, your counters, your dagger wit?

Chris says:
I'm going to try and develop my wit

Chris says:
>.<

Schadenfreude! says:
You know, I saw a wit kit at Wal-Mart the other day. 19.95.

Chris says:
How many chinese girls in a sweatshop did it take to make that? Almost as many as a disposable razor I bet...

Schadenfreude! says:
No clue, but I'll bet it was more of them than the nerds lined up to buy them will ever see.

Chris says:
I hate you

Chris says:
>.<

Chris says:
I couldn't come up with anything for that one

Schadenfreude! says:
^_^

Schadenfreude! says:
When you don't have a comeback, don't dwell on it. Move on.

Schadenfreude! says:
The most important thing is to keep the flow going.

Schadenfreude! says:
If you hesitate, the audience will notice.

Schadenfreude! says:
If you don't have one on the tip of your tongue, don't flounder trying to come up with one.

Chris says:
*nods*

Chris says:
Just like Improv

Schadenfreude! says:
Precisely like improv.

Schadenfreude! says:
That's what stand-up comedy is when you're doing it with another person.

Schadenfreude! says:
If you're doing it on your own, sure, you can plan the skit, but if you're doing it with another person without them specifically being part of the development, the entire act is about improv and who's got the faster tongue.

Chris says:
I had to do stuff like that In my acting class

Chris says:
My teacher said i was actually pretty good at it

Chris says:
I'm doing it on my own though

Chris says:
I decided to go more for a one liner approach

Schadenfreude! says:
Give me an example.

Chris says:
something like

Chris says:
"I'm getting tired of chasing my dreams, I decided i'll just find out where they're headed and meet them there."

Schadenfreude! says:
BZZZZZZT

Chris says:
wrong?

Schadenfreude! says:
Bad.

Schadenfreude! says:
Very, very bad.

Chris says:
not my material

Chris says:
Stephen Wright

Schadenfreude! says:
Shinjo Ikutsuki is funnier than that.

Schadenfreude! says:
And his idea of a one-liner is, "Don't like seafood? They also serve GROUND beef!"

Chris says:
-nods-

Chris says:
I currently don't have any material, because i don't have a notebook to write it

Chris says:
in*

Schadenfreude! says:
I once met a guy like that. Used toilet paper, instead. So I asked him what he used to wipe with, and he answered, "That's where the notebook went."

Chris says:
did you just think of that?

Schadenfreude! says:
Yup.

Chris says:
ok

Chris says:
I had to read it a couple of times to get it

Schadenfreude! says:
My 78-year-old grandmother got it the first time.

Chris says:
Oh really now

Chris says:
well i guess that makes me stupid then

Chris says:
*shrugs*

Schadenfreude! says:
Maybe you should head to Wal-Mart and pick up one of those kits?

Chris says:
Nay

Schadenfreude! says:
Just be careful if one of those chinese girls walks by.

Schadenfreude! says:
You'll quickly find yourself up against some stiff competition.

Chris says:
*facepalms*

Chris says:
Yes because i'm SOOO attracted to that whold sun-deprived malnourished look

Schadenfreude! says:
I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about them!

Schadenfreude! says:
Only thing that turns them on more than an Akane lookalike is one that goes around with a giant robot talking about rolling d20s!

Chris says:
I'm sure it was giant to them, I hear them asians are actually dang short.

Schadenfreude! says:
Was that a comeback or a history lesson? It's getting so hard to tell coming from you; they both put me to sleep!

Chris says:
It was me trying not to utterly fail

Chris says:
I'm not giving up though

Chris says:
I'll take this beating 'till i can dish it out just as well

Schadenfreude! says:
Excellent, that's the way! Here's some medical tape, you'll need it.

Chris says:
Not as much as Dick Cheyney needs a better gun, I men if you can't kill someone by shooting them in the face, you have to be using a frekin popgun!

Chris says:
(/tangent)

Schadenfreude! says:
Don't get me wrong, the world needs another attorney like that one needed another hole in his head, but if Cheyney had killed him, who would've been his defense at his trial?

Chris says:
Well, perhaps the animals he was SUPPOSED to be shooting at could say something. I suppose they wouldn't be the best defense though

Schadenfreude! says:
I dunno, they're smarter than the average liberal.

[TrueBlue©]

Well, I don't have anything funny to add. My humor's generally either black or unintended slapstick. =)

But yeaaah. Good for you, trying new things. ^_^

[EJP]

Don't quit your day jobs.

[Beanybag]

Aug 15, 2008 0:18:46 GMT -5 EJP said:

Don't quit your day jobs.

I laughed out loud at that >_>

[Ninmast]

It was just for a little fun, and we enjoyed it.

[Thy Masked Tragedy]

Aug 15, 2008 0:18:46 GMT -5 EJP said:

Don't quit your day jobs.

EJP, you're one to talk. Your sense of humor is about as well developed as the mind of a goldfish. If it's not sexual, or related to some sort of fatal accident, I doubt you would have given anything like this a second glance. Your soul purpose in even commenting here was to be rude, and that sort of behavior is the sort of thing I'd expect from the dim-wits at my grade level. I can't really target you too much since Ninmast did ask for feedback, but there is no point in being immature over it. If you were going to say anything, you could have given a critique, or made some sort of suggestion.

Anywho, I believe there were a few too many puns for my taste, but overall it did get a chuckle or two from me.

[Ninmast]

Anybody think we should do a Version 2? Maybe throw True into it ...

[Beanybag]

Chris has come up with some pretty good one-liners, I've been helping him out, telling him which jokes suck, which don't, etc.

I think he has some pretty good ones now. o=



And Steven Wright is hilarious! D<

"I once saw a pirate walking down the street, he had wooden legs and real feet."

[Ninmast]

If we ever do real stand-up with each other, I'm totally bringing my buzzer ... And three sets of spare batteries ...

[TrueBlue©]

Anybody think we should do a Version 2? Maybe throw True into it ...

I've been saying this from the beginning, I'm a serious person and you guys laugh at weird things.

(Read: I'd be happy to oblige, I love attention. )

[Ninmast]

Yay! True's in! Maybe we should make it a regular thing, having different people in.

I'll flag down Red next time I catch him on and see if he's interested in another one.

[Lyn Maliodis]

I thought that whole dialogue was really good & reading all your replies made me laugh, i'm a little good at stand-up to i just need something to start off of, like for example...if someone gets mad at you & gives you the finger which if you don't know (i doubt that everyone on here doesn't) means @#$% you so say to them "Are you sure you wanna do that?" if they reply yes then i could go on with something for about an hour 30 min at least whereas if they say no maybe i could keep it going for at least 10 min.

BTW Ninnymasters what comedy type do you prefer or type of comedy or whatever?

[The Silent Orator]

Hm, not bad. I laughed at a few here or there. Personally, that's not my type of joke-telling. I tend to be a lot more on the sarcastic, insulting side when I tell jokes... (usually sarcastically insulting myself, but I digress). Not bad at all...