• Sami_Uso@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This kind of awkward humor walks a really fine line between funny and just plain old awkward. Stand up comedy is a real deal skill, you couldn’t just go up at an open mic and kill, you probably aren’t doing it in a classroom of your peers barely paying attention.

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      9 months ago

      Script is solid. Failed the delivery.

      Real comedians practice their skit until it’s not even funny for them anymore. Many never laugh at their own jokes when they’re killing it.

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        9 months ago

        It sounds like he did to the point people actually believed he was accidentally fucking it up to the point they couldn’t see past it to the joke. Either that or it’s 4chan so it’s fake

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      Yeah and I don’t suspect most people on 4chan have any stage work abilities. I’m talented at stage work, and by that I mean in my public speaking class in high school I fell flat on my face for most of a semester but was charming about it by the end and in college was able to relatively quickly pick up the skill and hold onto it for a long time. Without comedic timing it’s going to start bad, and if you can’t call it and say “I’m sorry it’s all gonna be more of this, it was funnier in my head” you just become the embodiment of cringe.

      I hope anon does some open mics. They’re good not just for building skills but also for the soul. Sometimes the soul needs to bomb in a safe space.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah it sounds to me like anon was shooting for Joe Pera or Andy Kaufman but landed on Sweet Dee