By Steve Roye | Pro Comedian Trainer
For those comedians who are motivated to become a stand-up comedy sensation on YouTube…
To become a hit on YouTube, you need a video that goes viral.
And for most comedians, that simply isn’t going to happen because…
For a stand-up comedy video to go viral on YouTube (meaning the link to the video is passed along from person to person over and over again), it must have very broad appeal to a large segment of people.
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I went to YouTube.com and did a search using the term bad stand-up comedy and I was kind of amazed at what I found.
Below is a video of an unfunny comedian who gets very few laughs in his set and is an obvious flop on stage.
It’s called bombing in the world of stand-up comedy and this guy was pretty darn good at it.
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Many people are under the impression that the process for generating laughter while giving a speech or presentation is somehow vastly different from delivering stand-up comedy.
This notion is FALSE.
The comedy mechanics for generating audience laughter are exactly the same as those needed for stand-up comedy (or in any environment for that matter)
The big difference is that speeches and presentations usually contain “informational content” that is not designed or intended to generate laughter.
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