StandUp Comedy Books

Here are ten I did buy, read and study from January till now.

Some are more useful for me then others, but from all I learned, was inspired and have to go back to them again and again.

The first I found was Logan Murray book, whose very useful workshop I attended in May.

But there are others, classic or very useful ones, each helping me one step farther;



The Tookbox was the second one I liked a lot and Judy's old and still very actual book is a classic by now. From her I learned the use of instinctive afterthought movement or/and phrase, just after the punch and laugh. Usual it provokes an even bigger laughter.

At Crossroads, Julie in Communist Romania

Delivered live at the Canal Cafe Theatre, With Spark London, Crossroads theme
Tuesday 6 June 2011

Of course, there is a lot more to tell about it but this is how the story was told.

When I suddenly met Elena Ceusescu, and my life crumbled, all I worked for the six years before disapeared...

Second Stand Up & Deliver

Delivered at Covent Garden Amused Mouse; at Walkabout Downunder the 30 May; by Julie, at age 77 This is from the soundtrack of my second standup comedy, this year - and ever, I hope other standups will follow.

Logan Murray Workshop in Barcellona

Humor and Roasts

Regan roast Frank Sinatra
he could be president, but is it worth it if he has to give up being a king







and humor from Obama at press conferences

I did it my way

Those are the words, and I begun with reminding Sinatra and his I did it my way, my two Educational tasks from the Better club series.

Contrasts

It is not how up we are and how low we get, or the difference between our dreams the reality and the worst that can happen too, but the surprise.

In fact, the contrast.

Here, in pictures for exemple, the dark and the light.

Those are pictures taken Thursday, inside the Royal Festival Hall.

The same place, different rendering.



Different mood results.

Does it not?

The same is true with a story or a "joke".

Also it can be also the looking up, vertical then down and the difference the surprise.

Surprise can produce laughter. The unexpected. The suddenly revealed.

I learned yesterday, from Logan Murray, there is a "comedian answer" to all. A different one then usual. Another point of view. Revealing often what is under.

The best, but more often the worst that could happen.