Comments on: What Are My Chances Of Becoming A Comedian? https://www.realfirststeps.com/3704/how-to-be-comedian-chances/ The very best stand-up comedy tips on the planet for new comedians! Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:32:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Penelope Smith https://www.realfirststeps.com/3704/how-to-be-comedian-chances/comment-page-1/#comment-2381 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:00:19 +0000 https://www.realfirststeps.com/?p=3704#comment-2381 It is good to know that there are a lot of different places where you can use your comedy talent. It seems like it might be smart to consider doing writing as well. That could be a good way to use your humor.

]]> By: TopComedyGuru https://www.realfirststeps.com/3704/how-to-be-comedian-chances/comment-page-1/#comment-1984 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:14:23 +0000 https://www.realfirststeps.com/?p=3704#comment-1984 There’s a difference between performing comedy material geared for adults and doing “adults only” comedy, which tends to be profanity laced and lacks class or taste (not that there has to be – there’s a comedy audience for just about any type of comedy).

I can’t say for sure, but I suspect that you may be having difficulty generating clean material because:

1. You are trying to “write” material in the literal sense, most of which doesn’t tend to work well. This is a factor that drives comedians to genital humor, which can usually generate some nervous laughs if nothing else.

2. You don’t trust your sense of humor totally, meaning that you haven’t established a reference for clean material that works, but you may have established a reference for material that is not so clean that works to some degree.

3. You may be influenced consciously or subconsciously by the type of stand-up comedy material that you see other comedians doing (which is mostly blue), coming to the conclusion that clean comedy won’t work for you, leading to a block when it comes to developing clean comedy material.

Again, I can’t say for sure. All I know for sure is that the comedy mechanics getting laughs are the same regardless of the type of material you deliver. It should be no more difficult to develop clean comedy material that works at a high level than it is to develop blue comedy material, provided you have confidence in the process that you use to develop comedy material in the first place.

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