Six months later, I do it again.
March 26th of 2006. It was a sunday. The last day of Sakuracon. I woke up with anticipation and fear, as I would be facing one of mankind's greatest fears head-on. Me and Mike got ready and headed out at 9:30 to grab a bagel at a local breakfast place. I ate light, because I definitely didn't want to end up with a throw-up. We walk in to the room at the convention hall. It was a sizable room, its length, width, and height about the width of a three-lane street. It was two groups of chair for the audience to sit in, where each group was about 12x15. At the front was two rectangular tables about five feet seperated from each other and a projector in between for panelists. It was ten minutes before showtime, and I sat down in the room in the audience seating waiting to see how many people would be coming to the show, before its performer shows himself. One, two, three people step-in. I question one of them about the performer, and said that he never heard of the guy. I told him that this guy was horrible, and that I came to heckle. Five minutes left. I look around and see about fifteen people sitting down. Mike came back and told me that most people are in the dealers hall to get last minute stuff before the con ends, and that there is some voice acting show in the main hall attracting most of the people too. Guess the scheduling was bad. One minute before the event starts. I look around and it's fifteen people sitting down. One last look at my cellphone, and I pocket it. I straighten my back, take a breath, and stand up. I walk up to the front behind the tables, grab the mic, give the switch a flick, and look at words on the electronic. They said "ON". I look up, and I tell the microphone something, and I trusted it to tell everyone else. I said, "My name is Victor Chaves. I am the anime stand-up comedian."
As I'm sure I've said a BILLION times on this LJ, that stand-up comedy panel I did was probably on of the best things I've ever done.
Well it's been six months, and Sakuracon has finally put up an update to their website, setting up a form of which to sign-up for Paneling. I'm doing it again everybody. I'm doing another show of stand-up comedy, and I'm putting more effort into it than I probably should. The show is gonna be about forty-five minutes long. Hopefully, I'll have enough material to last at least for more than twenty minutes like I did last time. This'll be my second stand-up performance ever, and boy howdy did I ever learn from it. Here's a few guidelines one should follow, should they consider stand-up.
1)ThE SHOW MUST BE AT NIGHT. Really, if it's not at night, than you will be unable to do any sort of improv at all. I found myself just straight nervous, and tired. Really wish I had at least five bans of coke three hours beforehand. Speaking of that...we go into the next one.
2)PEE AND SHIT BEFOREHAND. This is obvious.
3)REVIEW YOUR JOKES ONCE A DAY. Really, standing up with a piece of paper for reference is not a sign of a good comedian. Review like hell.
4)TELL YOUR JOKES TO OTHER PEOPLE. Hold a little bit of mini-thing where you get four people to sit with you, and listen to your act. What you think might be hilarious, might not be at all to others. This saved me, because I did the first draft in front of Jody, Kevin, and Brian, and they thought more than 3/4 of what I written should be taken out altogether.
5)Lastly, DON'T RANT. No ranting. More or less, you are just isolating yourself from the audience with this if they disagree with you. Although one may complain, one must complain in a way that the listener can affiliate themselves with. For instance, Dane Cook has a joke where he complains about the annoyance of car alarms, and all people hate car alarms. But saying that one hates sushi, and saying that all things that are food must be cooked, would only isolate you from food connaisseurs.Appeal to the general audience, not yourself (but that's important too)
This is probably the biggest thing I can look forward to for the next couple of weeks. If this goes pretty well too, I'll consider going to PAX in 07 to do a show there too! Time for show is on the weekend of April from the 6th to the 8th. More than likely, after 8PM on friday or saturday.
As I'm sure I've said a BILLION times on this LJ, that stand-up comedy panel I did was probably on of the best things I've ever done.
Well it's been six months, and Sakuracon has finally put up an update to their website, setting up a form of which to sign-up for Paneling. I'm doing it again everybody. I'm doing another show of stand-up comedy, and I'm putting more effort into it than I probably should. The show is gonna be about forty-five minutes long. Hopefully, I'll have enough material to last at least for more than twenty minutes like I did last time. This'll be my second stand-up performance ever, and boy howdy did I ever learn from it. Here's a few guidelines one should follow, should they consider stand-up.
1)ThE SHOW MUST BE AT NIGHT. Really, if it's not at night, than you will be unable to do any sort of improv at all. I found myself just straight nervous, and tired. Really wish I had at least five bans of coke three hours beforehand. Speaking of that...we go into the next one.
2)PEE AND SHIT BEFOREHAND. This is obvious.
3)REVIEW YOUR JOKES ONCE A DAY. Really, standing up with a piece of paper for reference is not a sign of a good comedian. Review like hell.
4)TELL YOUR JOKES TO OTHER PEOPLE. Hold a little bit of mini-thing where you get four people to sit with you, and listen to your act. What you think might be hilarious, might not be at all to others. This saved me, because I did the first draft in front of Jody, Kevin, and Brian, and they thought more than 3/4 of what I written should be taken out altogether.
5)Lastly, DON'T RANT. No ranting. More or less, you are just isolating yourself from the audience with this if they disagree with you. Although one may complain, one must complain in a way that the listener can affiliate themselves with. For instance, Dane Cook has a joke where he complains about the annoyance of car alarms, and all people hate car alarms. But saying that one hates sushi, and saying that all things that are food must be cooked, would only isolate you from food connaisseurs.Appeal to the general audience, not yourself (but that's important too)
This is probably the biggest thing I can look forward to for the next couple of weeks. If this goes pretty well too, I'll consider going to PAX in 07 to do a show there too! Time for show is on the weekend of April from the 6th to the 8th. More than likely, after 8PM on friday or saturday.