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Magic79 New user 42 Posts |
Just curious how you have dealt with bombing when a comedy/magic show goes bad. Any great stories and insightful advice?
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MarkTripp Special user Michigan 618 Posts |
Look at the back wall, finish your set, get off.
Try and figure out when and why the show went south. |
steves7 Regular user Blue Springs, Missouri 114 Posts |
Keep smiling and chuckling. Don't let them know you are not having a good time. turn on the acting without overdoing it. Sometimes a crowd needs a laugher to get them started.
In college our drama director would reserve a seat on the front row for his professor friend largly because he was a "laugher". His chuckling got everyone else going. The same principle applys to television sitcoms. They produce the shows in front of a live audience and many times will add laugh tracks. Not sure you can always plant a laugher in the audience though! |
C Christian Loyal user 288 Posts |
A seasoned comedian will tell you it is good to bomb every once in a blue moon... why? Because you learn from it and you can only get better from learning.
Yeah I've a few stories I can tell, my 1st happen like this... I was the openner and as an opener you have to really wake folks up and have them stop talking to each other and make them listen and watch you. Well lets just say everyone was asleep I did my set walked off and got a few polite applauses and that was it. I was so sad... Well as I walked off The middle act went on and did his set. He started yelling at the crowed saying,"What the hell is the matter with you people!" cursing and saying thing I did not know you can say to the public well after about a min. of that he calmed down and went into his set and by the end of his set he had people laughing and ready for the finnal act. After the show he came up to me and said dude, you bombed tonight but it wasn't you, you where actaully funny. I told him thanxs and said do you normally curse out the audience. He said no, he said he felt like this audience just needed a kick in the pants after my set. He was right! I will never curse out my audience nor will I yell at them... but I have learned ways since then to deal with a bad audience. Here is a bigger tip Make sure you have a really good act, because if you do suck your audience will tell you, night after night, after night. Don't make excuses iether if this trick didn't work becaue the batteries failed. It is your fault not the batteries. Or if the Joke didn't get the laugh, you normally get (which means you have done it a hundred times with laugher 99% of the time) you must have delivered the joke wrong and or the timing was off. iether way it is still your fault. Both cases I have done in the past.... Bottom line learn from it cheers chris |
The Donster Inner circle 4817 Posts |
Tv shows also do cue the audiences. when to laugh/applaud as well. not evreything goes right all the time but we try for it to happen.
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Sonny Vegas Regular user Chicago, Illinois - USA 199 Posts |
It all has to do with the audience. The shows I work, I must stress that the Emcee has to have some good material to warm the cold crowd up. That is a must! If the audience has been loosened up with some good jokes, Your routine should open up with them want to laugh more. Let me also add that a stinky act before you also can bring the laughter level down.
In another case, if your material stinks and youre a train wreck waiting to happen, count that as a learning experience and get ready for the next show....with some better material. Open mic nights are a good place to practice your new material. In this forum, many comedian magicians here do share some material, just make sure you form it into your own style. Best to you |
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