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Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by johnmoonyy »

Love standup comedy! $10 for a 30m is really expensive. Stanard shows I've gone to were like $15 for ~3 comedians for a show lasting about an hr.

What about lineups? (3 comedians for $10)

Also does the comedians interact with watchers? Can I leave a comment and chat with other people (not sure if this will distract the comedian or not)

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by thaumasiotes »

gexla wrote: post #10

Let's be honest, this isn't even close to stand-up. If there isn't a live crowd, it's not stand-up. You need that feedback and the regular drilling to find your voice. Stand-up comedians find their "voice" by doing the same set, same jokes as often as they can get up on stage. If you're serious about this as a career, you're getting up on stage multiple times a day if you can figure out a way to do it. You're constan…

> you don't want to be putting videos of your earliest crap performances on the web. You also don't want to be putting video of your best jokes on the internet because you get more exposure for people stealing them with little return.

> Stand-up comedians have already had an alternative for getting up on stage for a long time. It's called podcasting

I'm not seeing the crucial distinction between putting up video of yourself doing jokes, and putting up audio of yourself doing jokes. The value isn't coming from the visual part of the video.

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by helloiloveyou »

gexla wrote: post #10

Let's be honest, this isn't even close to stand-up. If there isn't a live crowd, it's not stand-up. You need that feedback and the regular drilling to find your voice. Stand-up comedians find their "voice" by doing the same set, same jokes as often as they can get up on stage. If you're serious about this as a career, you're getting up on stage multiple times a day if you can figure out a way to do it. You're constan…

No SHOW HN is complete without the comment with unconstructive criticism. You can feel officialy launched OP! In my opinion the project is nice and good on you for launching it!

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by danenania »

gexla wrote: post #10

Let's be honest, this isn't even close to stand-up. If there isn't a live crowd, it's not stand-up. You need that feedback and the regular drilling to find your voice. Stand-up comedians find their "voice" by doing the same set, same jokes as often as they can get up on stage. If you're serious about this as a career, you're getting up on stage multiple times a day if you can figure out a way to do it. You're constan…

While it might be a poor substitute for a live audience, live audiences aren't happening right now in most places, so what's wrong with trying to figure out the best possible substitute? Isn't it still better than nothing? A podcast is a completely different format where performers get zero live feedback by design--with this there's at least an attempt to approximate it.

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by Vinnl »

My brother's a professional comedian, and he's been doing shows from home now. That said, he's not performing his regular sets, both because they can be recorded, and because the interaction with the crowds is no longer the same. However, he's doing more streaming improv now, where the crowd can give input through chat. It's working pretty well for him, but also isn't bringing in much money yet.

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by hobs »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #13
gexla wrote: post #10

Let's be honest, this isn't even close to stand-up. If there isn't a live crowd, it's not stand-up. You need that feedback and the regular drilling to find your voice. Stand-up comedians find their "voice" by doing the same set, same jokes as often as they can get up on stage. If you're serious about this as a career, you're getting up on stage multiple times a day if you can figure out a way to do it. You're constan…

> you don't want to be putting videos of your earliest crap performances on the web. You also don't want to be putting video of your best jokes on the internet because you get more exposure for people stealing them with little return. > Stand-up comedians have already had an alternative for getting up on stage for a long time. It's called podcasting I'm not seeing the crucial distinction between putting up video of y…

Podcasts are not standup, they are ways to riff and show you are funny in a different way - akin to radio spots back in the day.

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by asciimo »

gexla wrote: post #10

Let's be honest, this isn't even close to stand-up. If there isn't a live crowd, it's not stand-up. You need that feedback and the regular drilling to find your voice. Stand-up comedians find their "voice" by doing the same set, same jokes as often as they can get up on stage. If you're serious about this as a career, you're getting up on stage multiple times a day if you can figure out a way to do it. You're constan…

All this may be historically true. But entertainment has been evolving since the birth of the internet, and some entertainers will evolve with it. Yes, this is a poor substitute for conventional stage stand-up. But surely the core of a talented "funny person" can be adapted to this new format.

There's an interesting phenomenon with late night hosts doing their monologues from home. They're really bad at it (at least they were for the first couple of weeks). They're writing the same type of material they wrote in their televised audience shows; same type of language, same topics, same timing. It was really awkward. A common critique was, "My 16 year old daughter does better youtube than _______" (e.g., Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers). So maybe this is the dawn of of a new era, and the big TV stars will either adapt or fade away.

Re: Show HN: Live Stand-Up Comedy from Home

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Post by thaumasiotes »

hobs wrote: post #17
thaumasiotes wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you don't want to be putting videos of your earliest crap performances on the web. You also don't want to be putting video of your best jokes on the internet because you get more exposure for people stealing them with little return. > Stand-up comedians have already had an alternative for getting up on stage for a long time. It's called podcasting I'm not seeing the crucial distinction between putting up video of y…

Podcasts are not standup, they are ways to riff and show you are funny in a different way - akin to radio spots back in the day.

A podcast is a prerecorded album. These are common in standup. I have comedy tapes and comedy CDs; a podcast is not different in any way. If you ripped a CD and concatenated all the tracks, you'd have a "podcast".
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