E-book Category: Business, Entertainment
E-book Title: The Killer Stand-up Comedy System
Author: Steve Roye
Book Description: If you have ever struggled to come up with high impact, big laugh comedy material for your stand-up comedy act, speech or presentation... "The 3 Strategies You MUST Use Immediately If You Want To Have A Killer Stand-up Act Now" Find out how one struggling comedian turned his seriously lame comedy act into a high impact laughter event... almost overnight after discovering the Killer Stand-up Comedy System! "As Hard As I Tried In The Beginning, I Sucked!" I was 33 years old in 1992 when I started my stand-up comedy career - for the second time. What makes someone even think about becoming a comedian?
The reasons I had were the exact same reasons you have now.
I was an medical educator in the Navy at the time (I retired from active duty in 1999) and I took another stab at it, because...
I could make a classroom full of students laugh so hard that it would disturb the other classes - teaching what would normally be considered painfully dry and boring topics.
So I figured that taking a shot at stand-up comedy wouldn't really be that hard. I remember vividly what I was thinking when I first made the decision to become a stand-up comedian: "All I had to do was write some jokes, tell them on stage and soon I would be discovered!
It can't be that hard. And I know I can be funnier than anybody on TV." Boy, I was naпve in the beginning.
I knew in my heart that I was funny enough for the stage and could make something big out of stand-up comedy.
I thought if I just had some good information on how to write great jokes, I was on my way to success! I did what seemed like the smartest thing to do at the time...
I spent hundreds of dollars buying every book I could find and taking workshops on how to write, develop, and perform stand-up comedy material.
I studied joke-writing techniques day and night. I wrote joke after joke, then rewrote them over and over again until I believed they were as funny as they could possibly be.
I spent countless hours memorizing and performing my "killer jokes."
With all my hard work I knew I had an act that would be a knock out! Then I went on stage and performed the material I had written.
I couldn't believe what happened next...
Most of my material didn't work. The material that did work didn't work well at all. I'm not talking about once or twice. I'm talking about having below-average to poor performances on a consistent basis - for months.
I studied longer. I worked harder. I wrote and rewrote material. I talked to every comedian who would talk to me, trying to get every scrap of information I could to help make my act better. I practiced more.
I put 110% into every performance. And after 6 months of seriously working my butt off, I can honestly say...
I would get some laughs, but I had made little real progress. My act was nowhere near the level I wanted it to be at. And working harder without significant results only made my frustration grow even more.
I got to the point where I figured I had just one option left... "I Just Couldn't Do It Any More" It was a really hard decision for me - but I decided to quit stand-up comedy. I had to face the cold hard reality. I just wasn't cut out to be a comedian.
After months of study and hard work, I simply couldn't write great jokes and I just figured I wasn't cut out to be a stand-up comedian.
Then a very strange thing happened...
I was teaching classes in the evenings to supplement my income. On one particular evening, I strayed into a non-related topic and had the class laughing so hard, the building manager came over to the room to see what was going on.
This had happened before, but on this night, it really sparked my attention.
What happened that night kept nagging at me. There was one thing I just couldn't seem to figure out.
I could make a whole class full of people laugh so hard that they couldn't hardly breathe....
But I couldn't even come close to that when I was on stage.
And the most puzzling part of all was...
I wasn't doing any of the prewritten jokes from my stand-up comedy material in the class that night - just like every other time I had gotten really big laughs from a group I was teaching.
I knew I was on to something - I just had to figure it out. I was determined to find out why I could make people laugh when I was just being myself, but when I got on stage, I was mediocre at best.
Well, I did figure it out... "The Light Bulb Suddenly Came On!" Immediately, I threw out almost all of my old comedy material.
I ignored everything I had read on writing and performing "jokes" and started over. I began to create specific tools and techniques based on my new discovery to develop comedy material.
Almost overnight, I had managed to work out an easy, step-by-step system for developing and performing stand-up comedy material on stage.
Did it really work?
Well, let me just say that the system was so powerful...
I went from struggling with a seriously lame stand-up comedy act at open mikes to headlining 600- to 1500-seat theaters in less than 2 years after throwing out my jokes that had been poorly written "from thin air".
But that wasn't the only thing that happened... "Everything Changed... Almost Overnight!" Because I was able to figure out how to harness my own sense of humor for the stage instead of writing lame jokes, I was able to easily develop comedy material that was great for the corporate market.
I was also able to land speaking engagements, cruise ship gigs and corporate comedy gigs for thousands of dollars.
When I was writing and performing my "paper-written jokes", it had taken me months to come up with 10 minutes of material that DIDN'T work well on stage at all.
After developing this system, the most shocking thing happened... My real problem now was having much more killer comedy material than I could use for the stage time I was given! Soon, many other new (and not so new) comedians and speakers noticed my vast improvement and started to seek me out for group and private lessons. I didn't go to them; they came to me.
I'm not saying that all of this will happen to you. But I am willing to share the system I've developed and uncovered along the way - a system you won't read in any of the popular books on stand-up comedy (some of which are written by so-called "experts" who are not even stand-up comedians!)
This system helped me go from a struggling new comedian to a headliner working theaters to corporate functions and become an accomplished speaker in less than 2 years...
I am now working to develop additional resources designed educate the 21st century comedy performer or speaker on how to quickly develop comedy material, refine a killer comedy product and promote that comedy product in the corporate markets in just months instead of years.
I am certainly not trying to toot my own horn here. But I do know what really works for the naturally funny individual -- and I painfully know from first hand experience what doesn't.
Here's the bottom line:
If you want to be a successful comedian, you need a cohesive and deliberate system for getting solid, undeniable laughs when you perform on stage.
You need the powerful tools and strategies that allow you to evaluate your performances and make rapid adjustments for maximum impact on stage.
You need what are now referred to by some as the "Forbidden Secrets"... "You Need A System That Works For You Now!" There is no single secret, tool, or formula that will make you a successful comedian or speaker.
I tried to make the "joke formula approach" work by buying all the books on stand-up comedy. The "conventional" joke formula and joke writing methods simply did not work for me.
Any struggles you may be having now, whether as a comedian or speaker, trust me - I've been there.
When I started, I talked to seasoned comedians to find the answers I needed. Besides saying "Just keep doing it - you'll get better," most had little to offer in the way of solid information I could use to build a killer act.
I literally spent hundreds of dollars on comedy workshops trying to learn how to become a stand-up comedian with material that actually worked.
I would showcase my act in comedy workshops, only to have the "comedy expert" teaching the class tell me, "You've got great stuff. Now all you need to do is make it funny."
Well, that was like asking me to grow another finger.
But I knew in my heart that I could be a great comedian if I just had the tools, the knowledge - and a solid system that really worked. "3 Essential Strategies For Big Comedy Success" So I started looking for trends and patterns common to all successful comedians - comedians who could get "on a roll" and keep an audience on fire with their act.
Every one of these comedians, whether they were aware of it or not, were applying 3 Essential Strategies to get the results they wanted on stage...
Every successful comedian uses the following 3 Essential Strategies in some way familiar to them to deliver a killer act on stage:
They have a strategy for: - Producing large quantities of killer comedy material in the shortest possible time
- Testing, editing, and refining comedy material in the fewest performances possible
- Developing and maintaining ultimate stage comfort
This is your basic plan for success for developing a solid act as a professional comedian or speaker who incorporates comedy into speeches and presentations.
If you have all three of these bases covered, you have the greatest chance for success in this business.
However, you must know how to get these strategies to work for you. The good news is, it certainly can be done and there is a system that will work to help you accomplish your comedy goals as a comedian or speaker... Not in months and years, but in mere hours. To get these strategies to work for you, you must utilize a customized version of each of these essential strategies tailored for your own unique sense of humor.
This is why stand-up comedy books and most comedy workshops will never give you the tools you really need to succeed.
No number of "secrets" will help you unless you orchestrate them into a specific cohesive system for delivering the killer results you want on stage.
You need a fool-proof system for success that will really work for you and your own unique, individual sense of humor. The Killer Stand-up Comedy System
Instant Download Available Now! Fortunately, there is a fool-proof system for anyone who has a sense of humor that will translate well on stage.
One of the folks who recently used the Killer Stand-up Comedy System wrote, "I was able to use the techniques in this system in minutes - it has already paid for itself!"
The Killer Stand-Up Comedy Interactive Writing and Performing Guides provide the blueprint for a systematic, step-by-step process that includes everything you need NOW for creating, developing, honing, and performing a rock solid, killer act in record time.
It includes a massive arsenal of proven techniques that are designed to help you capture and structure your individual sense of humor for the stage and get you the results you need now! "This Is NOT The Same Joke Writing Approach Grandpa Used" Before we move on, let me speak frankly and honestly about what this system is not: - It's not a rehashing of the same old and tired "write 50 jokes a day using formulas" approach.
This system represents the first new and unique approach in decades for systematically creating and performing killer stand-up comedy material.
Successful joke writing on paper takes years to master. However..
High-impact stand-up comedy material can be developed in minutes and hours instead of months and years by using the Killer Stand-up Comedy System. - I will not tell you that this system can make anyone funny on stage, like comedy authors and teachers will lead you to believe in order to get your hard-earned cash.
No system can make somebody funny. No system can give you a better personality for comedy.
It doesn't matter how funny someone thinks they are, not every sense of humor translates well on stage - regardless of what system or methodology they use.
But here are the hard, cold facts: The comedy professionals who
consistently kill audiences with maximum laughter...
Get a minimum of 4 to 6 laughs per minute throughout their ENTIRE act
And...
Maintain a PAR Score of 30 or above
(as measured by Comedy Evaluator Pro) That's what the Killer Stand-up Comedy System is based on - getting a minimum of 4 to 6 quality laughs for every minute you are on stage and the highest possible PAR Score when simply using your own individual sense of humor and outlook on life...
Structured for your individual sense of humor.
Speaking professionals who maintain a PAR Score of 15 (45 seconds of laughter for each 5 minutes of presenting) are on fire!
Whether you are a comedian or a public speaker, the fact remains: The funnier you are, the more money you make! - I will not tell you that you will be discovered and become a star if you use this system. There is a long line and a long wait at the comedy clubs for comedians who want to go that route.
But this system will allow you to quickly develop a high-impact, corporate ready act that is in great demand and highly marketable if you are willing to promote yourself.
People who are using this system now are or want to be professional comedy entertainers and understand that it will take effort to meet their goals.
They are getting the results you want now.
And make no mistake - there's very good money to be made by the professional comedian who has a hilarious killer act working in the right markets with the right act. - This system is not a magic pill. Becoming a successful stand-up comedian or a professional speaker takes a lot of discipline, work, and dedication.
But the personal and financial rewards can be tremendous for those who know how to develop and market a clean, high quality comedy act or presentation.
"Here's Where The Rubber Meets The Road" If you want a simple, easy-to-use, "no B.S." system for developing and delivering an stand-up comedy act, speech or presentation that produces tremendous results based on your own unique sense of humor, you are in the right place.
The Killer Stand-up Comedy System is based on years of research and hard work in the field of stand-up comedy and spoken humor delivery.
When you're ready for the "real deal," this system provides the following techniques and methods: - How to produce mounds of bulk comedy material in minutes, instead of days or weeks. Eliminate writer's block completely!
- Easy-to-use and effective methods for structuring what you have to say for maximum impact on stage in the fewest words possible.
- The Secret Weapon and how to use it to completely eliminate stage fright and increase stage comfort and confidence. This single technique alone has been used by my clients with remarkable results.
- Sure-fire, easy-to-implement formatting techniques that will help you ensure that you achieve and maintain 4 to 6 quality laughs per minute when you perform.
- Dozens of multimedia examples. Examples of the methods and techniques are clearly illustrated with dozens of multimedia examples that help you make sure you are on the right track.
- A start-to finish, real 3-minute stand-up comedy bit is developed and illustrated every step of the way - from the initial stages of material development to the finished work as it was performed live on stage (a multimedia clip of the finished bit is included).
- Simple, yet innovative procedures and techniques help to ensure you have the 3 Essential Strategies that successful comedians use locked down tight.
On top of that you also get... "Just The Tip Of The Iceberg" The system I have been referring to is contained in complete interactive multimedia courses called the Killer Stand-up Comedy System: Interactive Writing and Performing Guides.
Here's just an additional taste of what these extensive guides have to offer: - Downloadable versions of the guides are available to you in minutes which contain all the tools, techniques, and methods you will ever need detailed in a step-by-step, easy-to-apply system.
- Find out which part of the comedy bit is more important than the punchline when crafting a killer act. This one technique alone can save you tons of time working on punchlines that would never have had a chance.
- Effective tools and techniques for evaluating your progress on stage. Most comedians use trial and error to find out if a joke works or not.
- This system shows you not only how to produce "bits" instead of individual jokes, but also...
- How to effectively evaluate your progress and rapidly make adjustments to dramatically reduce the amount of stage time needed to determine what works and what doesn't.
- Without these evaluation techniques, you could spend years trying to craft an act that really works.
- These techniques are in addition to incredible performance evaluation data provided by the Comedy Evaluator Pro software.
- The real secrets to having the tightest act possible.
There are six key steps you must take to make your act tight enough to get a minimum of 4 to 6 quality laughs per minute.
Power on stage comes from confidence in knowing you can get 4 to 6 laughs or more each minute almost every time you are stage. - Success principles and strategies for thinking like a headliner comedian even if you are just starting out. The mental aspects of stand-up comedy are more important than the words you say.
If you want to win, you need to be thinking like a headliner now. This system will show you how. The complete Killer Stand-up Comedy System includes: - The Interactive Writing Guide
- The Interactive Performing Guide
- Access to over 60 online multimedia examples
- The Quick Reference Guide
- Street Joke Secrets
- A password for full access to the Comedy Evaluator Pro software (PC users only)
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