Well, here’s our answer: Charisma boot camp, is, in fact, the comedy club stage:
A good stand-up can walk into a room, a bar with no stage and a shitmic, in the deep goddam South or Montana or Portland or Austin orBoston, and not only tell jokes with differing political opinions thanthe crowd, can get them to laugh. With all due respect to our brotherperformers in theater, etc., we can walk into a room of any size from20 to 2000 complete strangers with no shared background and not justevoke emotion … we can evoke a specific strong emotion every 15 seconds. For an HOUR.A good stand-up can make fun of your relationship with your wife, makefun of your job, make fun of your politics, all in front of a thousandstrangers, and afterward that same person will go up and invite thestand-up to a barbecue.
In short — every club audience is a swing state.
Good stuff. Read the rest. (Thanks to Pandagon.)
The Kung Fu Monkey post is indeed quite interesting, although my eyes almost melted trying to read it because of the incredibly annoying white-letters-on-black-background design that the site’s author selected. Funny that a post about how to communicate with an audience is so bad at communicating with its audience.