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My Favorite Top 10 Comedy Venues

  Being a Comedian for at least 20 decades now, I could honestly state I have done in the worst areas and the best places in the nation. I'll concentrate on the top areas because I think comedy ought to be a joyful event rather than a downer. What makes a Comedy Club enjoyable and successful is the appropriate setting. It is all about atmosphere, seating arrangement and most of all, the closeness factor. Comedy is a romantic medium that constantly works best in smaller venues of 400 seats or less. The bigger the place, the less the crowd is part of their encounter. I feel that Comedy Clubs and tiny Theaters are the best, particularly for a crowd worker such as myself. With all That Said, this is my list:   My Favourite Comedy Venues Of All Time 1. The First Improv(NYC, NY)- This bar has been the Grandaddy of all Comedy Clubs. It had been the first and truly the best. It was nice and small, about 100 chairs, intimate, and had such an atmosphere about it. When you're on that...

The Key To Comedy

Among the most frequent questions that I get as a stand up comic, author and now trainer is: what's the trick to humor?   And even though there are too many factors for me to suggest that I have all of the answers when it comes to humor, I will provide you the key. That is right I will provide you the secret to humor.   The key would be SURPRISE.   If we split down comedy; I mean, actually split down comedy to components, then we could begin to design alternatives. So let us do this temporarily in this blog article.   I suppose we could all agree that for humor to be humor, we will need to get the viewer to laugh, right? So that is our problem.   So let us find an answer...   Someone needs to be laughing in order for a person to state that something is funny or funny. Now that we understand that, we will need to understand what causes people to laugh.   According to a number of psychologists, the amount one component that ac...

My Favorite Top 10 Comedy Venues

 Being a Comedian for at least 20 decades now, I could honestly state I have done in the worst areas and also the best areas in the nation. I'll concentrate on the top areas because I think comedy ought to be a joyful event rather than a downer. Why is a Comedy Club enjoyable and effective is the appropriate setting. It's all about setting, seating arrangement and first and foremost, the closeness element. Comedy is a romantic medium that constantly works best in smaller places of 400 seats or less. The larger the place, the less the audience a part of their encounter. I feel that Comedy Clubs and tiny Theaters are the very best, particularly for a crowd worker such as myself. With all That Said, this is my list:   My Favourite Comedy Venues Of Time 1. It had been the first and really the ideal. It was fine and small, about 100 chairs, romantic, and had this atmosphere about it. When you're on this point, you understood the likes of George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny B...