Great class last night. Last night the class was about, ‘LETTING GO,” trusting your creative self and instincts and moving into the positive emotions of our creative sand box and away from doubt, frustration and fear. Thank you everyone for working as hard as you are. Lots of laughs last night and I’m going to add, some breakthroughs! Yes this is an ‘Introduction to Stand Up Comedy,’ but we can still push ourselves creatively and take some risks while we’re having fun. It’s why when we did the book exercise so we can see how taking risks and sharing our INTUITION exercise story in class shows us how our stories and the passion we have in sharing them can translate into using the same skills in our material our rehearsing and our performance.

REMEMBER: Our Stand Up Comedy Performance is at Yuk Yuks :Tuesday March 14. Doors open at 6:30 showtime 7:30, tickets are 10$ Dollars only available at the door. The club is located in the Century Casino on 131 Avenue and Fort Road. Show and ticket info: E mail: paulsveen@shaw.ca

SET MECHANICS: 1) Say your story out loud. Your set, your performance is based on the story you choose. 2) Ask yourself what the point of your story is. What ever that point is, this should be your first joke. 3) Look at each sentence in your story and use the sentence as a premise and QUESTION and ASK questions about each sentence. Say the sentence out loud and add the answers you created from the questions. Keep asking the questions and ask from different perspectives on the circle and also from HOW YOU FEEL. If you’re frustrated or lost or intimidated by the premise or joke writing process, Q and A it and talk around it and move into the emotion and  create some material and add it to the story. As you work through each joke, REMEMBER to keep random ideas and brain storm ideas no matter how random, under the heading, “POOL,” at the bottom of the page. These ideas can come in handy.

Last but not least, when you get to the last sentence, ask and answer the questions and rehearse the ideas out loud. If you feel there’s a joke in the set that’s better in your set, put that joke at the end. Always have your best joke closing your set. Be aware of how you’re feeling when you write your jokes and rehearse them. Keep moving into these emotions and writing jokes with them: if it’s apathy or anger, frustration or excitement; write out how you feel. This is the premise. Then look for the unspoken truth in the questions, this is the punchline.

REMEMBER: you can book me for your event, Christmas party, office key note or moral booster. If you’re interested in a one on one Skype class or to be a part of my Advanced Stand Up Class at the end of April: e mail me please: paulsveen@shaw.ca

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