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Seven Lessons From Stand Up Comedy by Adrienne Zurub As a Stand Up Comedian channeling my talents, improvisational skills and performance accrual into my speaking business, I have acquired wisdom from performance arts that are apropos to the speaking business. (1) Know your audience! When crafting your speech or presentation know everything you can about the audience you will address. This involves researching the company, the demographic of the audience, what time you will be on (morning versus evening audiences are DIFFERENT!) (2) Know your material. The audience expects you to in essence lead them. Lead them with your professional and knowing grasp of your subject matter. (3) Do not expect to win over everyone with your great speech! Stand Up Comedians know beforehand that not everyone may be receptive to their material. Yet, a Comedian knows how to control an audience, continue to move forward with their material, and to connect with those in the audience that do get their message! (4) Learning to move through your material or speech is NOT ignoring the audience. A Stand Up Comedian will instantly make adjustments in their material to meet the needs and personality of a particular audience. As a speaker, you 'read' your audience and make adjustments in how you present your material! (5) ATTITUDE is everything! The audience gains confidence in you the moment you walk out onto the stage. HOW you walk to that mic, podium or lectern BEFORE you open your mouth determines how the audience will accept or connect with you. More important is the connection! Make them want you! Make that audience want to be like you! (6) Along with attitude in coming on stage is CONTROL! A Stand Up Comedian, a good one, comes on stage and CONTROLS the stage, it is their DOMAIN! In taking control of the stage the comedian, lets the audience know that they are in for a remarkable experience. They make the audience feel safe. The stage should be your domain, your home, your place of comfort. (7) To make the stage your domain, take lessons to improve your performance. Take acting lessons, improvisation lessons, theater lessons. Observe performers in action and take what you need to improve your stage performance. Go to open mikes and just get up and try to make a joke or just talk to the audience. Stage time is everything! For an example outside of comedy, take Tiger Woods. Mr. Woods, a naturally gifted golfer still takes lessons to improve his game! (8) Do auditions! Auditioning whether for a play, movie, theater production or whatever makes you think 'conciseness' in getting YOUR persona (and your message) across quickly. Auditioning makes you think on your feet! You have to deliver yourself, BE yourself and who you really are, usually in three to five minutes depending on the requirements of the audition. (9) A manager at The New York Comedy Club once observed me looking glum in the club. He immediately told me to smile because I am in show business! YOU, as a speaker are in Show Business! Smile! Radiate like a star! Make people want to connect with you by the aura you create! Apparently, I can't count...YOUR bonus! Author, Speaker, and Comedian, ADRIENNE ZURUB, trained at the American Comedy Institute in New York City with Stephen Rosenfield, at Second City for improvisation, with the Judy Carter Workshops in New York City and California. Her acting and scene study coach is the noted Victor D'Altorio of LA. Adrienne wrote and performed her solo performance pieces at Cleveland Public Theater, under the auspices of Sarah Morton, a noted playwright. She has acted in numerous independent films. She was a lead character in Arenafest at the historic Karamu theater, and in a PlayActs production. Adrienne still does open mikes and auditions. She is a Spoken Word pOet. She is a member of Toastmasters, NSAOhio, AORN, and AKA Sorority, Inc. Her interests are: sleeping, the Cartoon Network, world travel, reading, surfing the net, and waiting for magical things to happen. She is author of the book, 'Notes From the Mothership ~ The Naked Invisibles' out 11/2007 Peep her at: http://adriennezurub.com Other articles by Adrienne Zurub Two Things to Help Your Child Survive Childhood! - by Adrienne Zurub
I was in the grocery when a guy whom I recognized immediately came up to me and spoke. Funny, I recognized him even though I had not seen him for about 40 years! This guy as a ten or twelve Ideas for speeches, articles, and books come to us sometimes at the most inopportune times. As a comedian, writer, and author I am in the habit of breaking away in a conversation and immediately writing down what I am Stand Up comedy requires you to have 'balls' I know this, I have them and I am a girl. To get up on that stage and literally expose who and what you are (sometimes even when YOU do not Newest Articles in Public Speaking Die in a Fire Or Speak in Public? - by Dan Boudreau
"Ninety-five percent of people would rather face death by fire than speak in public." I find this easy to believe, because I used to fit begrudgingly into that 95%. In 1989 I went through a curious inner turmoil - I Public Speaking - Top 5 Mistakes Speakers Make While On Stage - by Felicia Slattery Public speaking is known as one of the most powerful ways to market your business. As a public speaking trainer, I have the opportunity to see many great speakers first-hand. Lately I've noticed more and more entrepreneurs How To Cure Fear Of Public Speaking - One Sure Fire Way To Get Up And Get Speaking - by Christopher J Barnett It's remarkable just how many people want to know how to cure fear of public speaking forever! While there are many suggested ways of the reducing the stress of the moment when you appear in front of your audience it’s my experience that there is only one sure-fire way to even begin to cure the fear of public speaking forever. Seven Lessons From the President of Xerox! - by Adrienne Zurub (3) Being who you are is more important than being 'something' i.e., the PRESIDENT of Xerox. Which reminds me of this quote: "How many care one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." --Coco Chanel One Lesson From Stand Up Comedy - by Adrienne Zurub Stand Up comedy requires you to have 'balls' I know this, I have them and I am a girl. To get up on that stage and literally expose who and what you are (sometimes even when YOU do not |
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