The following is a list of tips I have for performers of stand up comedy. I am in no way an expert on this however I have been getting up on stages for over 6 years and in that time I like to think I have amassed some knowledge of
So I currently don’t have a job. Other than my stand up comedy which honestly doesn’t pay enough for me to enjoy the lavish lifestyles rap videos tell me I should be aiming for. Jay-z may have had 99 problems but I feel like if one of those had been
I haven’t written anything in a long time, and there’s probably been a multitude of reasons for that. I’ve got a new job, before that I was on the cusp of homelessness and before that I was on the brink of suicide. What a bloody rollercoaster life is, only with
War! Huh? What is it good for? Well maybe, just maybe solving all the worlds problems. “Jake that’s ridiculous” I hear you cry. Well you’re right, it is ridiculous. The only way war could potentially fix the world is if we were invaded by an alien species who decides the
So I imagine this may sound familiar to a lot of readers (I’m fooling myself in to thinking a get “a lot of readers”), the whole question of “what do I want to do?” The question that’s the bane of my existence, the thorn in my side, the pain
Seriously, they’re horrible. And I think, I’m not a doctor but, they might actually be killing us all. They have to be, why else would they feel this bad! I’m currently riding the tube in London at 7am. My alarm went off at 6:10am (and again at 6:12am because
Take a second to think back to the last stupid thing that you did. Not a tragic regret, but one that you can laugh at. Yes, it’s hard to admit but we are all stupid sometimes and if you don’t think you are, then unfortunately you’re slightly more stupid. It’s
Procrastination will be the death of me. I swear to God my gravestone shall be engraved with “I’m meant to be doing something else”. I procrastinate so often that I procrastinate about procrastination. For example, I’ll decide I want to watch a movie instead of doing something constructive (like applying
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