Should your stand-up comedy material be written down? Absolutely.

Let’s assume that you have your stand-up comedy material or jokes written down.

Other than for memorization purposes…

What do you look at in the written version of your stand-up comedy material or jokes for improvement and to increase your laughs?

Seems to me that there are at least 5 important things you need to look at in your stand-up comedy material such as:

1. Have you marked or identified each minute of your stand-up comedy routine as it in on paper?

As you are probably aware, this can vary dependent on audience size (longer or shorter laughter episodes relative to audience size).

But if you know roughly what a minute of delivered stand-up comedy is on paper, you can then look closely at this next important item…

2. Do you have an average of 4-6+ punchlines for each minute of your routine?

Seems to me one would want to identify any minutes in their routine that may be lacking in punchlines, set-ups too long, etc.

One could also use Comedy Evaluator Pro to measure the actual laughter impact of each punchline (relative to audience size of course) for adjustments after the show.

3. Are your punchlines structured for maximum use of the element of surprise and laughter impact?

4. Is your stand-up comedy material written like you deliver it, or do you deliver your material like you have “written” it?

For the maximum laughter impact, it should be the former, not the later.

5. Are you keeping jokes/punchlines in your stand-up comedy routine that only generate telepathic laughter?

I certainly hope not :-)

These are just a few of the critical things you may want to review in your written stand-up comedy material.

Related video and article:

Article Link: How To Write Stand-up Comedy Material

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