Going to Stand Up! (Mastering Stand-Up) (Humor column)
This is not a statement, but the title of the next book I read last night. The book came to me in an interesting way - a couple of months ago I was invited to speak at an internal event for the whole company in a stand-up format. So I thought a little bit about the topics, and I picked one of the two things that I usually talk about, which was "Architecture," because the other two speakers joked about management. As usual, when faced with a new topic, I buy books on it - it seems that since childhood I have had a story that getting a book = = getting knowledge from a book. As a result, I prepared a stand-up performance, but I did not have time to read the book. It’s a good thing that I showed up with the same theme, “Architecture in T-Bank: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” on ArchDays and took the book to work. Last week I was told I read the last pages of the book at night. Of course, the architecture conference is not a stand-up show, so I had to dilute jokes with a boring theory to a homeopathic state, but some users noted a sense of humor in the reviews to the report. (Okay, one person noticed that.).
If we talk about the book itself, it was written by Stephen Rosenfield, founder of the American School of Comedy, who put the training of comedians on the stream and in this three-hundred-page book shared his recipes for becoming a good stand-up. In the book 5 parts 1) Start collaborating In this part, the author encourages the reader and talks about the path that he has to go to become successful: find out what, your originality, learn how to write texts for stand-up, hone the skill of performances, come up with a stage character, constantly perform and so on. 2) Types of stand-up comedy Here the author lists the types, shows examples and explains the difference between them. For example, he talks about observational comedy, storytelling, stand-up sketches, act-outs, humiliations of celebrities or people from his environment, self-irony, humor on the verge of foul and so on. 3) Guide to creating material for stand-up comedy - here the author tells you what to do before you sit behind the draft, then how to work with the draft, how to run the material from it, how to finalize jokes of the setup-punchline format through the feedback of the audience at performances (It uses the working backwards principle for grinding and amplifying jokes.) 4) A guide to performing with stand-up comedy The author describes what to do with the excitement before the performance, how to behave on stage, how to comply with the rules and what to do if the joke did not go:) 5) How to achieve unsurpassed skill - here the author talks about the classification of jokes "A", "B", "C" and describes how to make a set of jokes of class "A". How to create a successful stage image that should be original, believable, bright, evoke sympathy, have a scenic charm and funny essence. It is funny that the author gives a list of reasons why the joke that used to tear the hall apart began to go into silence - and then he gives recommendations on how to fix it. The author’s story about how to be a leader and how to defeat your inner voice, which prevents you from achieving your goals. (here).
In general, the book seemed interesting and useful to me, even considering that I am not leaving StandUp!
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