From the article: Breaking In to Stand-up: Organizing Your Own Comedy Open Mic Night
If you've hosted your own comedy open mic, here's where you can share how you made sure it was a success. Help other readers host their open mics and break into stand-up comedy with your experiences. Share Your Experience
Dying is Easy, Killing is Hard: Comedian
- Kam Hesari is a prime example of a young comic with electrifying stage presence that audiences love to feed off of. This guy is really far into his comic trip, his amusingly digressive journey into everyday absurdity and hyper-literal thinking is the perfect twist of reality. I highly recommend that you watch his stand-up comedy at the link below as, you'll find yourself standing in some mind-bending places. His extreme consciousness of wordplay, irony, and, semiotics are equivalent to a caffeine shot of humour! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzjxzRiQf0A
- —Guest Steve
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- I have not yet got the chance to go to an open mic or on stage, but I would love to have the chance to go up, I love seeing people laugh at the way I explain things or have the ugly voices and face expressions I do, everyone I know says I should really go for it, it would be the easiest career choice for me, the first 5minutes of someone meeting me they cant stop laughing, I don't know what's wrong with me. but I cant be funny when I'm forced to be or put on the spot, that would be the only thing I'm worried about..I think I might have a.d.d.. I can never stop dancing and making beats with my hands or attempting to beat box, I'm always doing something where I cant sit still for more then 5minutes unless I'm forced to..I get distracted so fast and always jump story to story, but before I'm even done with my story people cant stop laughing from something I did or said, I would love to wake up and not feel like I'm going to work, to just help make peoples day better by making them lol
- —Guest Missy Elaian
FLAMBOYANT LAUGHS
- i featured some well known artistes to enthise other people to come and when they come the will see more of me,it was great
- —Guest virgin savio
starting an open mic
- Comedian Tiebo did a genius open Mic in pensacola FL he mixed poetry in to comedy with a 3 dollar cover charge and free drinks for all performers, which he at the end of the year uses as a tax write off. Now he has 3 open Mic spots shooters.... Brews brothers and tippsy taste of India.
- —Guest comedian TieBo
DCs Politics n Prose, Im 1st Hypnotist
- Everyone needs to Laugh! Its a great stress reliever. Laughing &/or Hypnotic trance, we need them both!
- —doc.wayson
Hosting an open mic comedy show
- My friend and I started our own open mic comedy show in Dec 2009 because we were tired of driving many miles and going into some pretty shady neighborhoods to attend shows. As of this writing (Dec 2010) we now host have our show every other week at four different locations. Our trick to get into the places was to offer it to establishments on their slow nights (Wed and Thursday around here). They were happy to try us out and now somehow they just book us once a month. We have a wonderful following of comics now. We made a facebook page to keep everyone up to date and take e-mails for communications. Our Facebook page is "Route 20 Funnies". (If I'm allowed to promote it here, not sure. Try it once and you'll be hooked because now you can choose where to do stand-up until you are "discovered"!...Hopefully anyhow. Forris Day Jr.
- —Guest Forris Day
Making the hood a little more Live
- Good artcle. Some places like huntsville al dont have comedy clubs at present. I just recently thought of offering a venue here after gettting back from visiting a few open mics in South Carolina, Birmingham, and Washington DC.
- —Guest Rooftop comedian extrodinaireMissyWilson
My First Time Organizing An Open Mic
- A local club that did music on the weekends that had a decent stage with good seating and a sound system. The one thing that they did not have was a comedy night. What started out to be an open mic ended up being two times a month but one was a full show with emcee, feature and a headliner, the other was the open mic. All I really did was go to the open mic 45 miles away and let everyone know what we were doing. We did it on a different night than they did and everyone showed up. In among those comedians were enough features and headliners that we could have a show. If you can think it, you can make it happen. Make a list of things to do and get it done. This also gives the clubs confidence in you that you can handle self-management as well as management of others. It’s what I do and what I have done all my life. Poppa Nutt Stand-Up Comedians.com
- —PoppaNutt
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- I punched hecklers in the face at medium hardness.
- —Guest Jason
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- The Greenwich Avenue Treehouse Comedy Mic has been around for a few years and I swooped in to take it over because I loved going so much. It was well run before I took it over, but now is a success because of the following: 1. Email Sign up: Forcing Comedians to pre-book allows you to limit the numbers, and quality of comedian. 2. Respecting establishment rules: The owners of the Treehouse dislike comedy that is degrading to race and/or gender. I make sure comics abide by this rule or their off the list. 3. Support - I sit up front and listen to every comic and laugh when I find something funny. This encourages others to support. 4. I host knowing I'm not the star. I give myself 5-7 minutes up front and then keep an upbeat attitude and move the show along. 5. Get comedians you respect to come. Having successful, or helpful comics at the mic helps foster a positive atmosphere. 6. Remind people it's a workshop, not a show so stress isn't so high to be "the best" but rather to "work"
- —Guest Sue
