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AHHHHH!!!!

:::Frantically attempts to block ears:::

The bar where I do much of my evening (local time) posting, decided to allow a lousy wanna-be stand up on stage. It was just sad.

I really have no qualms about it, except:
1) Choice of audience 1 - Tuesday night is "DJ night", and the regular DJ is a R&R guy. The audience talked over the poor guy for most of his performance..
2) Suitable Material and Audience - The Tuesday night crowd is mostly long term foreigners and Japanese. The stand-up's material was old hat or over the head of most of the audience.
3) Preparation - Never, ever, EVER have prepared notes. If you do, DO NOT consult them mid-performance! And most certainly not three times.


(BTW, I have done stand up up here before. At this very bar. I will be gently offering advice to the poor fellow, so no "you don't know what it's like", thank you... :wink: )

As valid as your points are, I'm going to ignore them because you triple posted this thread.

As valid as your points are, I'm going to ignore them because you triple posted this thread.

? I was about to blame it on the server, but then I looked. I don*t see but one copy....
(It is possible some nice mod cleaned it up without comment. If so thank you! If not, I am confused...)

Anyway, I was very nice and offered my insights from experience. He is on again next Tuesday. I hope he does better.

There are two things I really hate to see: performers who do little more than embarrass themselves, and overly enthusiastic people opening a business that will doubtless fail. Such great optimism crushed...

You mean my stand-up Thai carryout is a bad idea? :(

Sit-down is better.

Sit-down is better.

I once saw a whole show of "sit-down" - each performer was in a wheelchair. It was quite 8)

I remember a few years ago i had a really cool drama teacher who got us to do standup. Most people were terrible because it' was high school, painfully terrible, actually, but one or two people were awesome!