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From the Desk of:
Steve Roye
The Professor of Funny for Money
Author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System
"As
Hard As I Tried In The Beginning,
I Sucked!"
I was 33 years old in 1992 when I started my stand-up comedy
career - for the second time. What makes someone even think about
becoming a comedian?
The reasons I had were the exact same
reasons you have now.
I was an medical educator in the Navy
at the time (I retired from active duty in 1999)
and I took another stab at it, because...
I could make a classroom full of
students laugh so hard that it would disturb the other classes —
teaching what would normally be considered painfully dry and boring
topics.
So I figured that taking a shot at stand-up comedy
wouldn't really be that hard. I remember vividly what I was thinking when I first made the decision to become a stand-up comedian:
"All I had to do was write some jokes, tell them on stage and soon I would be discovered!
It can't be that hard.
And I
know I can be funnier
than anybody on TV."
Boy, I was naďve in the beginning.
I knew in my heart that I was funny enough for the stage and could make something
big out of stand-up comedy.
I thought if I just had some good information on how to write great jokes, I was on my way to success!
I did what seemed like the smartest thing to do at the time...
I spent hundreds of dollars buying every book I could find and taking workshops on how to write, develop, and perform stand-up comedy material.
I studied joke-writing techniques day and night. I wrote joke after joke, then rewrote them over and over again until I believed they were as funny as they could
possibly be.
I spent countless hours memorizing and performing my "killer jokes."
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Another comment from an entertainment
professional about the Killer Stand-up Comedy System: |
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Alba Sanchez
TV Personality |
Steve, My name is Alba Sanchez. I have been a performer for many years.
And I have written comedy
in Spanish, English and Spanglish for theater, and TV.
I have been The Face
of
HBO Latino for the last 2 1/2 years. |
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I have not tackled stand-up because I just couldn't write the way the comedy books were
saying is the only way to do it. I am considered a story teller, which is suppose to be a no no.
Bottom line:
I love your approach to comedy writing!
It seems very organic. And I can see myself
headlining in 18 months or less thanks to your course. You
really cut out all the BS and myth that goes on in the comedy
world.
Thank You so much for being so generous and
creating this course.
See Ya in Vegas,
Alba Sanchez
Bronx, New York
www.albasanchez.tv |
With all my hard work I knew I had an act that would be a knock out!
Then I went on stage and performed the material I had written.
I couldn't believe what happened next…
Most of my material didn’t work. The material that did work didn’t work
well at all. I’m not talking about once or twice. I’m talking about having below-average to poor performances on a consistent basis —
for months.
I studied longer. I worked harder. I wrote and rewrote material. I talked to every comedian who would talk to me, trying to get
every scrap of information I could to help make my act better. I practiced more.
I put 110% into every performance. And after 6 months of
seriously working my butt off, I can honestly say…
I would get some laughs, but I had made little real progress. My act was nowhere near the level I wanted it to be at.
And working harder without significant results only made my frustration grow even more.
I
got to the point where I figured I had just one option left…
"I
Just Couldn't
Do It Any More"
It was a really hard decision for me - but I decided to quit stand-up
comedy. I had to face the cold hard reality. I just
wasn't cut out to be a comedian.
After months of study and hard work, I simply couldn’t write great jokes and I just figured I wasn’t cut out to be a stand-up comedian.
Then a very strange thing happened…
I was teaching classes in the evenings to supplement my income. On one particular evening, I strayed into a non-related topic and had the class laughing so hard, the building manager came over to the room to see what was going on.
This had happened before, but on this night, it really sparked my attention.
What happened that night kept nagging at me. There was one thing I
just couldn’t seem to figure out.
I could make a whole class full of people laugh so hard that they
couldn’t hardly breathe....
But I couldn’t even come close to that when I was on stage.
And the most puzzling part of all was…
I wasn’t doing any of the prewritten jokes from my stand-up comedy material in the class that night — just like every other time I had gotten really big laughs from a group I was
teaching.
I knew I was on to something — I just had to figure it out. I was determined to find out why I could make people laugh when I was just being myself, but when I got on stage, I was mediocre at best.
Well, I did figure it out…
"The
Light Bulb Suddenly
Came On!"
Immediately, I threw out almost all of my old comedy material.
I ignored everything I had read on writing and performing "jokes" and started over. I began to create specific tools and techniques based on my
new discovery to develop comedy material.
Almost overnight, I had managed to work out an easy, step-by-step system for developing and performing stand-up comedy material on stage.
Did it really work?
Well, let me just say that the system was so powerful...
I went from struggling
with a seriously lame stand-up comedy act at open mikes to headlining 600- to 1500-seat theaters
in less than 2 years after throwing out my jokes that had been
poorly written "from thin air".
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Who Is Steve
Roye? |
- Here's a link to my own comedy
resume that I used when I was actively performing -- I'm retired
and now working on other fun (and very profitable) projects as a result of my comedy
career.
- In 2003, I developed the Comedy Evaluator Pro
software.
Click here to review a press release about
the software.
- I have been educating funny people in my radical approach to
stand-up comedy since 1995 and finally
released the complete Killer Stand-up Comedy System in
2001.
I am now proud to say that my system is being used by funny
people in over 20 countries around the world.
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Here's
a success story we recently received from a Killer Stand-up
Comedy System customer: |
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Hi Steve,
I
wanted to let you know how it is all going for me.
I purchased the Killer Stand-Up system about 6 months ago. I had
done a stand-up comedy workshop and had been dared to enter a local
comedy search competition.
I entered the heat and did
okay with a PAR of 16 (9 seconds of laughter per minute), but was
surprised to be offered a place in a wildcard heat. |

Mark Gladman
Australia
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By this stage, I had purchased the Killer Stand-up System.
I did some major refining work on my
upcoming competition set.
I won
the wildcard heat with a PAR of 22 (13 seconds of laughter each min) only
3 weeks later!!
Having continued to refine my material and develop more using your techniques, I am now hitting a new height with PAR's between 25 and 32 (15-19 seconds laughter
per minute)!!
And in that magic set with the PAR of 32, 3 out of the 5.4 minutes had over 20 seconds of laughter in them!! In fact, in that set, I only spoke for just over 3 minutes.
The rest was laughter and applause!!
I am looking forward to a lifetime of fun and financial freedom doing something I sincerely love while helping people enjoy life all the more.
I have much to thank you for, Steve. This is a scene where people are unfortunately protective and suspicious and looking out for themselves.
You on the other hand have been free to share your knowledge, a mentor who I have learned so much from. Please let me know if you are ever coming to Australia.
Cheers and Peace,
Mark Gladman
www.markgladman.com |
But that wasn't the only thing that happened…
"Everything
Changed...
Almost Overnight!"
Because I was able to figure out how to harness my own sense of humor for the
stage instead of writing lame jokes, I was
able to easily develop comedy material that was great for the
corporate market.
I was also able to land speaking engagements, cruise ship gigs and
corporate comedy gigs for thousands of dollars.
When I was writing and performing my "paper-written jokes", it had taken me
months to come up with 10 minutes of material that DIDN'T work well on stage
at all.
After developing this system, the most shocking thing happened...
My real problem now was having much more
killer comedy material than I could use for the stage time
I was given!
Soon, many other new (and not so new) comedians and speakers noticed my
vast improvement and started to seek me out for group and private lessons. I didn’t go to them; they came to me.
I’m not saying that all of this will happen to you. But I am willing to share the system I’ve developed and uncovered along the way —
a system you won’t read in any of the popular books on stand-up comedy (some of which are
written by so-called "experts" who are not even stand-up comedians!)
This system helped me go from a struggling new comedian to a headliner
working theaters to corporate functions and become an accomplished speaker in
less than 2 years… I am
now working to
develop additional resources designed educate the 21st century comedy
performer or speaker on how to quickly develop comedy material,
refine a killer comedy product and promote that comedy product in the
corporate markets in just months instead of years.
I am certainly not trying to toot my own horn here. But I do know what
really works for the naturally funny individual -- and I
painfully know from first hand experience what doesn't.
Here's the bottom line:
If you want to be a successful comedian,
you need a cohesive and deliberate system for getting solid, undeniable laughs when you perform on stage.
You need the powerful tools and strategies that allow you to evaluate your
performances and make rapid adjustments for maximum impact on stage.
You need what are now referred to by some as the "Forbidden Secrets"...
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Why The Killer Stand-up Comedy
System Contains "Forbidden Secrets" |
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It's only been in the last
year that I have discovered these amazing
and incredible attitudes that now surround the Killer Stand-up Comedy
System — on all parts of the globe:
1. Many comedians WILL NOT tell their comedy
colleagues that they are using my system for fear that they
will be surpassed on the comedy stage if others find
out about it and start using it.
2. Many comedy teachers fear that their own comedy
students will "jump ship" if they find out about and start
using my system.
This really blew me away
because...
I never intended for there to be
anything "forbidden" when it comes to the Killer Stand-up
Comedy System.
My intention was simply to
help others succeed in a big way with their own sense of
humor like I did and... Provide an easy and highly effective alternative to
developing and delivering high impact, big laugh comedy
material in a way that DOES NOT involve trying to "pluck
funny from the air" with hard to master joke writing
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"You Need A System
That
Works For You Now!"
There is no single secret, tool, or formula that will make you a successful
comedian or speaker.
I tried to make the "joke formula approach" work by buying all the books on stand-up comedy. The
"conventional" joke formula
and joke writing methods simply did not work for me.
Any struggles you may be having now, whether as a comedian or speaker, trust
me — I've been there.
When I started, I talked to seasoned comedians to find the answers I needed. Besides saying "Just keep doing it - you'll get better," most had little to offer in the way of solid information I could use to build a killer act.
I literally spent hundreds of dollars on comedy workshops trying
to learn how to become a stand-up comedian with material that actually
worked.
I would showcase my act in comedy workshops, only to have the "comedy
expert" teaching the class tell me, "You've got great stuff. Now all you
need to do is make it funny."
Well, that was like asking me to grow another finger.
But I knew in my heart that I could be a great comedian if I just had
the tools, the knowledge - and a
solid system that really worked.
"3 Essential
Strategies
For Big Comedy Success"
So I started looking for trends and patterns common to all successful comedians - comedians who could get "on a roll" and keep an audience
on fire with their act.
Every one of these comedians, whether they were aware of it or not, were applying
3 Essential Strategies to get the results they wanted on stage...
Every successful comedian uses the following 3 Essential Strategies in some way familiar to them to deliver a killer act on stage:
They have a strategy for:
1. Producing large quantities of killer comedy material in the shortest possible time
2. Testing, editing, and refining comedy material in the fewest performances possible
3. Developing and maintaining ultimate stage comfort
This is your basic plan for success for developing a solid act as a
professional comedian or speaker who incorporates comedy into speeches
and presentations.
If you have all three of these bases covered, you have the greatest chance for success in this business.
However, you must know how to get these strategies to work for you. The good news is, it certainly
can be done and there is a system that will work to help you accomplish your comedy goals as a comedian or speaker...
Not in months and years,
but in mere hours.
To get these strategies to work for you, you must utilize a customized version of each of these essential strategies tailored for
your own unique sense of humor.
This is why stand-up comedy books and most comedy workshops will never give you the tools you really need to succeed.
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Here's
what another professional comedian had to say about the Killer Stand-up
Comedy System: |
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Mike Williams
Professional Comedian
www.christiancomedian.com |
"This is by far the best comedy writing
system / platform / seminar that I have seen to date.
The Author
Steve Roye has given you over 700 pages of quality exercise
& techniques. But he does it in a non-exercise
/ technique / workshop way!
There was one page (I will
not tell you what it said) that was worth ten times the cost of the
book.
If you are going to buy one
book this year, order the Interactive Writing Guide.
If you are a new kid on the
block...
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Order this eBook before you work another day.
If you have done fewer than 250 (paid) shows, you also need to
order the Interactive Performance Guide...
I have been writing & performing for over ten years now, and I
can say for sure that this book has helped me become a better
writer.
I say that from a guy who has 7 CDs and 3 books to his credit.
Laugh at my ramblings if you want, I am headed to the bank to
make another deposit and I have the best October of my life
coming up."
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No number of "secrets" will help you unless you orchestrate them into a specific cohesive system for delivering the killer results you want on stage.
You need a
fool-proof system for success that will really work for you and your
own unique, individual sense of humor.
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The
Killer Stand-up Comedy System
Instant Download Available Now! |
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Fortunately, there is a fool-proof system for anyone who has a sense of humor that will translate well on stage.
One of the folks who recently used
the Killer Stand-up Comedy System wrote, "I was able to use the techniques in this system in minutes - it has already paid for itself!"
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The Killer Stand-Up Comedy Interactive Writing and Performing Guides provide the blueprint for a
systematic, step-by-step process that includes everything you need
NOW for creating, developing, honing, and performing a rock solid, killer act
in record time. It includes a massive arsenal of proven techniques that
are designed to help you capture and structure your individual sense of humor for the stage and get you
the results you need now!
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"This Is NOT
The
Same Joke Writing Approach Grandpa Used"
Before we move on, let me speak frankly and honestly about what this system is
not:
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It's not a rehashing of the same old and tired "write 50 jokes a day using formulas" approach.
This system represents the first new and unique approach in decades for systematically creating and performing killer stand-up comedy material.
Successful joke writing on paper takes years to master.
However..
High-impact stand-up comedy material can be developed in
minutes and hours instead of months and years by using the Killer
Stand-up Comedy System.
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I will not tell you that this system can make anyone funny on stage, like comedy authors and teachers will lead you to believe in order to get your hard-earned cash.
No system can make somebody funny.
No system can give you a better personality for comedy.
It doesn't matter how funny someone thinks they are, not every sense of humor translates well on stage -
regardless of what system or methodology they use.
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But here are the
hard, cold facts: |
The comedy professionals who
consistently kill audiences with maximum laughter... |
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Get
a minimum of 4 to 6 laughs per minute
throughout their
ENTIRE act |
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Maintain a PAR Score
of 30 or above
(as measured by
Comedy
Evaluator Pro) |
That's what the
Killer
Stand-up Comedy System is based on - getting a minimum of 4 to 6 quality laughs for every minute you are on stage
and the highest possible
PAR
Score when simply using your own individual sense of humor and outlook on life...
Structured for your individual sense of humor.
Speaking professionals who maintain a
PAR
Score of 15 (45 seconds of
laughter for each 5 minutes of presenting) are on
fire!
Whether you are a comedian or a public speaker, the fact remains: The
funnier you are, the more money you make!
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I will not tell you that you will be discovered and become a star if you use this system.
There is a long line and a long wait at the comedy clubs for
comedians who want to go that route.
But this system will
allow you to quickly develop a high-impact, corporate ready act that
is in great demand and highly marketable if you are willing to promote
yourself.
People who are using this system now are or want to be professional comedy
entertainers and understand that it will take effort to meet their goals.
They are getting the results you want now.
And make no mistake — there's
very good money to be made by the professional comedian who has a hilarious killer
act working in the right markets with the right act.
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This system is not a magic pill. Becoming a successful stand-up comedian
or a professional speaker takes a lot of discipline, work, and dedication.
But the
personal and financial rewards can be tremendous for those who know
how to develop and market a clean, high quality comedy act or presentation.
However, if you are a naturally funny person:
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Here's
another success story we recently received from a Killer Stand-up
Comedy System customer: |
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Hey Steve, In January of this year I
decided to get serious about my comedy career.
I have done a ton of
research and bought a ton of books on how to write
and perform comedy.
I was disappointed to
learn how hard it was, trying to write jokes out of
thin air.
No wonder it takes 7 - 10 years to get good using conventional comedy wisdom. |

Raymond Hoffman
Missouri |
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In despair, I continued my research and found the Killer Stand-up
Comedy System.
I had nothing to lose
so I invested in your system and Oh My God...
Within a day I had written 6
pages of material. I learned the value of your system and working with bulk material.
Thank you Steve for offering such a great value.
I have been trying some of my material on unsuspecting co-workers, WOW what a hit. I have
always been able to make everyone laugh, but now I am making them laugh harder.
I am far more
confident now with my comedy material then I was
even just two weeks ago.
Once again, I have to thank you for your wonderful
program!
Raymond Hoffman
Missouri
www.myspace.com/raymondhoffman |
"Here's Where The
Rubber Meets The Road"
If you want a simple, easy-to-use, "no B.S." system for developing and delivering an
stand-up comedy act, speech or presentation that produces
tremendous results based on your own unique sense of humor, you are in the right place.
The Killer Stand-up Comedy System is based on years of research and hard work in the field of stand-up comedy
and spoken humor delivery.
When you're ready for the
"real deal," this system provides the following techniques and methods:
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How to produce mounds of bulk comedy material in minutes, instead of
days or weeks. Eliminate writer's block completely!
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Easy-to-use and effective methods for structuring what you have to say for maximum impact on stage in the fewest words possible.
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The Secret Weapon and how to use it to completely eliminate stage fright and increase stage comfort and confidence. This single technique alone has been used by my clients with remarkable results.
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Sure-fire, easy-to-implement formatting techniques that will help you ensure that you achieve and maintain 4 to 6 quality laughs per minute when you perform.
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Dozens of multimedia examples. Examples of the methods and techniques are clearly illustrated with dozens of multimedia examples that help you make sure you are on the right track.
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A start-to finish, real 3-minute stand-up comedy bit is developed and illustrated
every step of the way - from the initial stages of material development to the finished work as it was performed live on stage (a multimedia clip of the finished bit is included).
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Simple, yet innovative procedures and techniques help to ensure you have the 3 Essential Strategies that successful comedians use locked down tight.
On top of that you also get...
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My Zero Risk 60 Day
Money Back Guarantee
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If the Killer
Stand-up Comedy System cannot help you meet your
comedy material development goals... |
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There is
no other system on earth that can do it for you.
Period. |
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This step-by-step system is so simple and effective that if you can't make it work, I
don't want your money. |
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If this system doesn't deliver all that
we
say it will after a full 60 day review, I will refund your investment
— no questions asked
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even if you are NOT really a naturally funny person and purchased my system by
mistake.
However, if you ARE truly a naturally funny person, here's what I have to offer you
that NO ONE ELSE can... |
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"Just The Tip Of
The Iceberg"
The system I have been referring to is contained in complete interactive multimedia
courses called the Killer Stand-up
Comedy System: Interactive Writing and Performing Guides.
Here's just an
additional taste of what these extensive guides have to
offer:
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Downloadable versions of the guides are
available to you in minutes which contain all the tools, techniques, and methods you will ever need detailed in a
step-by-step, easy-to-apply system.
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Find out which part of the comedy bit is more important than the punchline when crafting a killer act.
This one technique alone can save you tons of time working on punchlines that would never have had a chance.
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Effective tools and techniques for evaluating your progress on stage. Most comedians use trial and error to find out if a joke works or not.
This system shows you not only how to produce "bits" instead of individual jokes, but also...
How to effectively evaluate your progress and rapidly make adjustments to dramatically reduce the amount of stage time needed to determine what works and what doesn't.
Without these evaluation techniques, you could spend years trying to craft an act that really works.
These techniques are in addition to incredible performance evaluation data provided by the
Comedy Evaluator Pro
software.
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The real secrets to having the tightest act possible.
There are six key steps you must take to make your act tight enough to get
a minimum of 4 to 6 quality laughs per minute.
Power on stage comes from confidence in knowing you can get 4 to 6 laughs
or more each minute almost every time you are stage.
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Success principles and strategies for thinking like a headliner comedian even if you are just starting out. The mental aspects of stand-up comedy are more important than the words you say.
If you want to win, you need to be thinking like a headliner now. This system will show you how.
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Here's
another comment we recently received: |
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Actor Jason Peck
London |
Steve,
I would just like to say a
big thank you for creating the Killer Stand-up System.
I'm an actor of six years
and as I was starting out I also began to perform stand-up on the
open mike circuit here in London.
I basically took the same
five to ten minutes around for two years.
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I struggled to make my material work because of my slavish dedication to writing techniques.
One stand-up comedy workshop I took even banned me from using the words "and" & "but"!!
I was always funnier off stage. I could never seem to capture that. So I've been reluctant to go back to stand-up as I couldn't produce the material.
Now I'm 28 and I didn't want to take five years out of my life and not get anywhere.
I'm English, so I'm cynical by nature, but after I stumbled across your website and subsequently purchased the Killer Stand-up
Writing and Performing Guides, I realised just how great the content really is!
Your advice makes a lot of sense. I've only recently started using them and already I'm beginning to realise my problem will genuinely be getting enough stage time.
I know you don't know me, but I wanted to pass on my gratitude.
I am really looking forward to putting all the techniques and advice to good use. I may even be headlining two years from now with the right amount of application and hard work.
Thanks a lot!
Jason Peck
www.jasonpeck.co.uk |
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